Comments on: Monday, May 4, 2021 What Is Your Picture of God? https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Tue, 04 May 2021 15:12:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dr https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22709 Tue, 04 May 2021 15:12:58 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22709 Dale – Thank you. Your Adam example says it all and satisfies completely.

Mary – Thanks for building on the feedback from Dale. You are correct of course that sin is not what makes us human. Sin was a later introduction at the Fall of Man. I will read Paragraph 484 of the CCC as recommended and any other texts you are able to supply later.

My sincere thanks to you both.

]]> By: Mary Ortwein https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22704 Tue, 04 May 2021 12:03:54 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22704 To Dr,
I would send you to the catechism, paragraph 484 through the end of that chapter. It has references. I will look in St. Pope John Paul II’s writings and in Thomas Aquinas.
My thought from your comment is that you are thinking that being sinful is what makes us human. I think I remember it is that we are physical beings with free wills, intellects, and memory, the faculties of our souls, that make us human. I will see what I can find by next Monday. I love good questions!
Mary Ortwein

]]> By: Dale https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22701 Tue, 04 May 2021 00:26:43 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22701 Dr, Adam was a true man and up until his fall was also without sin. Also both God his father as well as his Mary were without sin so he did not inherit original sin like the rest of the children of Adam and Eve down to us.

]]> By: Dr https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22700 Mon, 03 May 2021 23:35:33 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22700 Thank you, Mary. You always deliver and your reflections regularly send me to Google to listen to a hymn, research a quote or watch a homily. This time it was to see the images of God by Renaissance and other artists.

I have always accepted Church teaching on Jesus being true God and true man. I never questioned it. Reading your reflection just now raised a question: Why is Jesus considered true man as He was without sin? I would appreciate being pointed to specific resources covering the clarification provided by the Church on this. Many thanks.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22699 Mon, 03 May 2021 23:12:06 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22699 The Devine Mercy picture is my vision of the Holy Trinity. The halo bring the Father, Jesus is, of course, Jesus and the rays represent the Holy Spirit. This same picture comes to mind during mass when the celebrant holds the consecrated host over the chalice and says in Him, with Him and through Him. The host correlates the the halo, the priest, Jesus and the chalice, the Holy Spirit.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22697 Mon, 03 May 2021 15:30:15 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22697 Absolutely beautiful. Thank you

]]> By: NR https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22695 Mon, 03 May 2021 12:41:29 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22695 “Give me Your picture, Lord, and let me put it over my heart.” Amazing! This actually struck my entire body. Thank you Mary for always being my Monday morning teacher and friend. You are so very blessed and WE are the fortunate ones to benefit from it.

]]> By: Karen P https://www.acatholic.org/monday-may-4-2021-what-is-your-picture-of-god/#comment-22694 Mon, 03 May 2021 10:06:46 +0000 https://www.acatholic.org/?p=72493#comment-22694 Thank you Mary! I absolutely love your use of art in relation to the scriptures all the while referencing the CCC. Well done.

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