10-22-12

Time to jump into the Vatican II documents
1st up:
 DEI VERBUM (Word of God)

I have been looking forward to reading the documents of Vatican II for a while. In the preface of this document (not sure that is the correct term)  Pope Paul VI states: the present council is following in the footsteps of the Council of Trent and Vatican I in that they "wish to set forth authentic doctrine on divine revelation and how it is handed on so that by hearing the message of salvation the whole world may believe, by believing it may hope and by hoping it may love". Since Thomas and I are reading about the Council of Trent in history and looking at the state of the Church at that time and how crucial the council was for the future of the Church this caught my attention. I don't know anything about Vatican I but I am  deducing it also was a much needed council for those times. If we look at the state of the world at the time of Vatican II we can see how badly a council was needed. In some respects 50 years seems a long time since Vatican II but in the course of history we are still in the implementing stages...and so thus THE YEAR of FAITH another step at a crucial time in history.

PONDER: How has my faith progressed in the last 50 years?