![\"Saint](\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASaint_Peter's_Square_from_the_dome.jpg\")
<\/a>By valyag (Own work) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>Vatican Council II (1963-1965) teaches us that God does not want to save particular individuals: He wants to save His Family.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one another. Rather has it pleased Him to bring men together as one people, a people which acknowledges Him in truth and serves Him in holiness\u201d (Lumen Gentium # 9).<\/p>\n
That People is the Church. Therefore, God\u2019s plans cannot be accomplished without the Church. Saint Peter refers to the Church as “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own\u201d (The First Letter of Peter 2, 9). The Apostle completes this idea by saying: \u201cOnce you were \u2018no people\u2019 but now you are God’s people\u201d (1 Pe 2, 10).<\/p>\n
Each of us has become a member of this Holy People through \u201cwater and Spirit\u201d(John 3, 5), through Baptism and faith: \u201cWhoever believes and is baptized will be saved\u201d (Mark 16,16). \u201cThis People has for its Head Jesus the Christ (the anointed, the Messiah). Because the same anointing, the Holy Spirit, flows from the head into the body, this is \u2018the messianic people\u2019\u201d(CCC # 782).<\/p>\n
The Holy Spirit dwells in each member of this people: each member is like a temple of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?\u201d (The First Letter to the Corinthians 3, 16). \u201cDo you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?\u201d (The First Letter to the Corinthians 6, 19).<\/p>\n
The Law <\/strong>this People follow is the \u201cnew\u201d commandment the Lord gave us: love and charity.<\/p>\n \u201cI give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another\u201d (John 13, 34-35).<\/p>\n That is the \u201cnew law\u201d of the Holy Spirit, the oxygen that gives life to the Body of Christ, to God\u2019s People.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death\u201d (The Letter to the Romans 8, 2).<\/p>\n The Mission <\/strong>of this People is to be \u201cthe salt of the earth and the light of the world\u201d (Matthew 5, 13-16). This People are the great hope of unity and salvation to the whole of mankind.<\/p>\n \u201cJust so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father\u201d (Matthew 5, 16).<\/p>\n The Goal <\/strong>of this People, as the Catechism teaches us, is: \u201c the Kingdom of God which has been begun by God himself on earth and which must be further extended until it has been brought to perfection by him at the end of time\u201d (CCC # 782) and \u201cthat creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God\u201d(The Letter to the Romans 8, 21).<\/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":" Vatican Council II (1963-1965) teaches us that God does not want to save particular individuals: He wants to save His Family. \u201cGod, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9791],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions\/17650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}