IN JESUS CHRIST THE DECISIVE EVENT OF THE HISTORY OF GOD WITH MANKIND IS FULFILLED
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“The benevolence and mercy that inspire God’s actions and provide the key for understanding them become so very much closer to man that they take on the traits of the man Jesus, the Word made flesh.”
“Jesus therefore places himself on the frontline of fulfillment, not only because he fulfils what was promised and what was awaited by Israel, but also in the deeper sense that in him the decisive event of the history of God with mankind is fulfilled.”
“For Jesus, recognizing the Father’s love means modelling his actions on God’s gratuitousness and mercy; it is these that generate new life. It means becoming –– by his very existence –– the example and pattern of this for his disciples.”
THE REVELATION OF TRINITARIAN LOVE
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“With the unceasing amazement of those who have experienced the inexpressible love of God, the New Testament grasps, in the light of the full revelation of Trinitarian love offered by the Passover of Jesus Christ, the ultimate meaning of the Incarnation of the Son and his mission among men and women.”
“The Face of God, progressively revealed in the history of salvation, shines in its fullness in the face of Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead. God is Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; truly distinct and truly one, because God is an infinite communion of love.”
“By his words and deeds, and fully and definitively by his death and resurrection, Jesus reveals to humanity that God is Father and that we are all called by grace to become his children in the Spirit, and therefore brothers and sisters among ourselves.”
“Meditating on the gratuitousness and superabundance of the Father’s divine gift of the Son, which Jesus taught and bore witness to by giving his life for us, the Apostle John grasps its profound meaning and its most logical consequence.”
“The commandment of mutual love, which represents the law of life for God’s people, must inspire, purify and elevate all human relationships in society and in politics.”
