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00:29How are you, dear friends?
00:29Welcome back to our virtual classroom here at Active Evangelization.
00:35We are looking at unit 3, we are reviewing now the content of the letter to the Galatians and also to
00:44the Romans.
00:45In our first class, we saw an introduction to, a broad introduction to, the subject of these two letters.
00:53In this next class we're going to try to conclude, I don't know if we can conclude, it's quite a long topic
01:01and complex, and I would like to expand on it at times.
01:04We talked about the terms that Saint Paul uses, the term justice, justification, righteous and grace.
01:18The terms "brothers of the reformation" are terms that, if we do not understand them properly, will lead us to make significant mistakes.
01:29The brothers of the Reformation, the separated brethren, fell into these errors.
01:35Even now, I don't think so; some of these elements haven't been very clear to them.
01:42So I'm going to try my best to explain them in such a way that we as Catholics will understand.
01:50clear.
01:50On the one hand, it is true that we are justified by faith, and that if we do not proclaim, as
02:02We will see it in practice, if we do not proclaim with our mouths, but also with our lives, that Jesus has...
02:09justified, if we do not truly bear witness that Christ dwells in us, then we are simply deceiving ourselves.
02:18So let's try to understand these terms more clearly.
02:23And before doing so, I would like to briefly summarize Paul's thinking, particularly in his letter to the Romans,
02:33which is where this is discussed in greater detail.
02:36And so, like everything we saw in our previous class, try to summarize it in these few minutes
02:43so that we can clarify our ideas and thus address a topic of paramount importance.
02:51Not only in our dealings with the reformed brethren, but in our own lives.
02:57If one does not clearly understand the first eight chapters of the letter to the Romans, life is going to be
03:04disrupt and will only remain what we sometimes have: a senseless compliance with the law.
03:13Okay, let's talk briefly then; the letter to the Romans is one of the great letters, we'll surely find
03:21It contains discussions and a use of biblical texts that will often baffle us.
03:28Because Paul argues, as he learned to do in the schools of the rabbis of Jerusalem, to confront and speak of
03:37a way that is not always easy to understand.
03:42It is worth remembering that Paul does not start from a doctrinal system, from a theology, but constantly starts from his own experience.
03:53Paul has been marked by his own history and presents his coming to faith as just another conversion.
04:03less dramatic.
04:05And that is why he insists that we were created to share in God's life, and until we achieve that,
04:14We will experience a conscious and unconscious rebellion against God.
04:22In other words, there has to be acceptance, otherwise there will be a rebellion within us.
04:28If we truly want to understand the letter to the Romans and especially the problem we have with our Protestant brethren of
04:38the reform,
04:39We must also place it with the well-known precision that this was the source from which Luther lived.
04:48and that the reform matured starting with this letter.
04:53He was not wrong, that is, Luther really was not wrong in seeing in it the condemnation of a church established in
05:01the world,
05:01in which faith had often degraded into practices unrelated to the saving faith.
05:07In other words, we need to go back a little and understand the situation the church was experiencing at that time.
05:14the reform.
05:15A fully established church, a church that had truly lost its faith,
05:21In other words, where there were a series of privileges among the clergy, where the common people
05:28He was completely ignorant of the life of faith, of evangelization.
05:32Evangelization had been completely lost, and then the only thing that remained in the Christian community was the Christian people.
05:38It was about being baptized and then receiving, because well, it wasn't that they were baptized, they received Christian initiation
05:45And then, receiving communion in the sacrament of reconciliation didn't hold much interest anymore, did it?
05:53People just went to mass, nobody took communion, right?
05:59No one received communion, hence the Eucharistic hymns that emerged precisely during that period.
06:03to try to recover the Eucharistic element, since this had practically disappeared.
06:11The church lived through a truly terrible time, which is where we recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit.
06:18Because if it weren't for him, this definitely wouldn't exist anymore, right?
06:23The Christendom of the Middle Ages was a people similar to that of Israel.
06:29Luther was very interested in this letter because it was a radical critique of the church.
06:35that she had ended up looking at herself instead of turning to God
06:39and whose political, doctrinal or repressive system is often
06:44It obscured the clear horizon that Jesus had come to propose.
06:49Luther and his contemporaries read this letter in light of their own problems,
06:55It must all be said this way, about his anxieties.
06:58They were the representatives of a dying Christianity,
07:02obsessed with the prospect of sin and eternal damnation,
07:07victims of a philosophy, nominalism,
07:11in which things are neither good nor bad in themselves,
07:15but only as God declares them to be.
07:18If God says this is good, it is good, and if not, it is bad.
07:21And we know that good is good and bad is bad,
07:24regardless of who does it or who doesn't.
07:28Many generations of Protestants and Catholics
07:32They will be marked by these controversies.
07:35This will not prevent us from finding in this letter
07:39what Luther, after Saint Augustine, had already discovered.
07:43A brilliant exposition of the mystery of humanity saved by Christ.
07:49Perhaps a certain forgetting of this letter and of the doctrine
07:53This is what has led our church
07:55to live a completely forgotten Christianity
07:59of grace and faith.
08:01Today we need to recover the doctrine,
08:05the essence of the Christian life.
08:09And we will definitely find the starting point
08:12as Luther found it
08:14And before him, Saint Augustine found it.
08:17in this text of Sacred Scripture
08:21which is the letter to the Romans.
08:23And well, we'll leave this introduction here.
08:26which allows us to have a clearer idea
08:29not only from the letter but as we just saw
08:34how it has influenced and the importance it has in our faith
08:38to now delve into the matter of justice,
08:43justification and grace
08:44These are fundamental elements that must be understood.
08:47if we truly want to understand
08:50what the Christian life means to us,
08:55how to access it
08:56and what are the consequences
08:59of not understanding these three terms correctly.
09:03Okay, we'll be back in a few moments.
09:06I'll see you in our next segment.
09:08Thank you.