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The Vocation of the Theologian
The truth which sets us free is a gift of Jesus Christ (cf. Jn 8:32). Man’s nature calls him to seek the truth while ignorance keeps him in a condition of servitude. Indeed, man could not be truly free were no light shed upon the central questions of his existence including, in particular, where he comes from and where he is going. When God gives Himself to man as a friend, man becomes free, in accordance with the Lord’s word: «No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you» (Jn 15:15). Man’s deliverance from the alienation of sin and death comes about when Christ, the Truth, becomes the “way” for him (cf. Jn 14:6).
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The Eucharist, Jesus -The Source and Summit of Our Christian Faith
Public and Post Biblical Prophetic Revelation
The Catholic Catechism states the following: “No new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it had not been completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries” (CCC, 66).
Please listen closely to what I wish to tell you. I beg you, My children, to read very attentively these pages that I have set before you. If you will do this, you will acquire the desire to live in My Will, and I will be standing right beside you when you read, touching your mind and your heart, so that you may understand what you read and truly desire the gift of My Divine ‘Fiat’.”
– The Divine Appeal of Jesus and the Most Holy Trinity
“Unless you become like a little child…”
Does God Extend the Feast of Divine Mercy to the Orthodox?
While the Church has made no official pronouncement in this regard, it is evident from the ecclesiastically approved writings of St. Faustina that the short answer appears to be a resounding “yes.” The theological foundation for this affirmation is grounded in the following words of Jesus to St. Faustina Kowlaska in 1934, “Ask of my faithful servant [a priest] that, on this day, he tell the whole world of My great mercy; that whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy” (Diary, 300); “No soul will be justified until it turns with confidence to My mercy and this is why the first Sunday after Easter is to be the Feast of Mercy. On that day, priests are to tell everyone about My great and unfathomable mercy” (Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul: Maria Faustina Kowalska 570); “I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender Mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fountain of My mercy… On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender Mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy” (Diary 699); “The flames of mercy are burning Me – clamoring to be spent; I want to keep pouring them out upon souls…” (Diary, 177).