{"id":17271,"date":"2017-12-08T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:27:14","slug":"the-church-complete-lesson-1-the-importance-of-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/12\/08\/the-church-complete-lesson-1-the-importance-of-the-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church Complete\u2014Lesson 1: the Importance of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Beginning Today and continuing every Friday, Catholicismanew will present lessons from “The Church Complete” from Prof Felipe Aquino. These articles come to us from Prof Aquino in English. We hope you will enjoy our Friday lessons on the truth of the Roman Catholic Church in this powerful way of learning of the Church universal. Professor Aquino heads up Cleopas publishing in the city of Lorena, Sao Paulo state, Brazil and has graciously offered these articles for our English language readers of Catholicismanew.–ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

When He founded HIS <\/strong>Church. Jesus addressed Peter and told him: \u201c\u2026you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build MY <\/strong>church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it\u201d (Matthew 16, 18). With these words, Jesus made it clear that the Church is HIS property. He only spoke of one Church, not of two or more.<\/p>\n

In fact Church is, according to God\u2019s Will, the very Own Body of the Lord. He wanted the Church to be His Mystical Body, constituted as the \u201cuniversal Sacrament for the salvation of mankind\u201d (LG, 48); as it is stated in the Vatican Council II; the Church is the means God chose to save everybody.<\/p>\n

The Church is the extension of Jesus’ Incarnation <\/strong>among human beings, to create the great family of God\u2019s Children inside Him. \u201cThe Church is the trajectory of the Christ through centuries.\u201d Bossuet would rather say: The Church is Jesus Christ poured and communicated onto the whole earth.\u201d All that can be said in brief with the words of a great priest of the first century, Saint Ignatius of Antioch BM (deceased on 107 AD):<\/p>\n

\u201cCatholic Church lies at the place where Jesus Christ is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sin has dispersed mankind since its origin, it broke the union and communion between human beings and God, interrupted the beautiful plan of love that earth paradise shows us.<\/p>\n

God the Father created human beings for Himself, so that we could be His family; our destiny was to live in intimate communion with Him and enjoy His Blissful life. Sin \u2013 the saddest reality of all \u2013 broke up this beautiful Plan of love and \u201cscattered\u201d God\u2019s children, tore His family apart and wounded God Himself. The Father thus wanted to rebuild His creation through Jesus and the Church, bringing His children back to Communion with Him. In this sense, the Official Catechism of Catholic Church estates:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gathering together of the Church is, as it were, God\u2019s reaction to the chaos provoked by sin\u201d (CCC 761).<\/p>\n

The Catholic Church is the only one founded by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago and She has never ceased to be. There is no other institution on earth so old and so new at the same time, capable of overcoming all the persecution She has been suffering since the times of the Roman Empire. At present we have a Pope, who is the 264th<\/sup> Pope departing from Saint Peter. Which Institution would be capable of that? Only a divine Institution, founded by the Lord Himself.<\/p>\n

Professor Felipe Aquino<\/p>\n

Professor Felipe Aquino\u00a0is a\u00a0widower, father of five children. <\/span>On TV Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova he presents the program \u201cEscola da F\u00e9\u201d [School of faith] and \u201cPergunte e Responderemos\u201d [Ask and respond], on Radio he presents the program \u201cin the heart of the Church\u201d. <\/span>On weekends he preaches deepening meetings throughout Brazil and abroad. He w<\/span>rote 73 books of Catholic background by publishers, Loyola and Cleopas and Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova. His t<\/span>eacher\u2019s page:www.cleofas.com.br<\/a>\u00a0Twitter: @pfelipeaquino<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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