God's plan and communion
Along with all the disciples of Christ, the Catholic Church based on God's plan her ecumenical commitment to gather all in unity. Indeed, "the Church is not a reality closed in on itself, but permanently open to missionary and ecumenical, she is sent to the world to proclaim and bear witness, make present and spread the mystery of communion which is essential to gather all people and all things in Christ, to be for all an 'inseparable sacrament of unity' "4.In the Old Testament, referring to what was then the situation of the people of God, the prophet Ezekiel, using the simple sign of two pieces of wood are first divided and then joined together, expressed the divine will to "gather from all sides "the members of his scattered people:" I will be their God and they shall be my people. The nations will know that I am the Lord sanctify Israel "(cf.
37:16-28). The Gospel of John, for his part, and deal with the situation of the people of God at that time, he sees in the death of Jesus the reason for the unity of God's children "would die for the nation and not only for the nation, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad "(11:51-52). In fact, explain the Letter to the Ephesians, "broke down the dividing wall of hostility [...] through the cross, destroying in himself the enmity" of what was divided he brought about unity (see 2.14 -16).6. The unity of all divided humanity is God's will for this reason he sent his Son so that by dying and rising for us, we might bestow his spirit of love. On the eve of the sacrifice of the Cross, Jesus himself prayed to his Father for his disciples and all believers in him, which may be one, a living communion. Hence not only a duty but also the responsibility before God, in front of his plan, those men and women who through baptism become the Body of Christ, a Body in which they have to realize the fullness of reconciliation and communion. How is it possible to remain divided, if at Baptism we have been "buried" in the Lord's death, namely in the very act, through the Son, God has broken down the walls of division? Division "openly contradicts the will of Christ, a stumbling block in the world and damages the holy cause of proclaiming the Gospel to every creature" 5.The way of ecumenism: the way of the Church7. "The Lord of Ages wisely and patiently follows out the plan of his grace to us sinners, recently has begun to bestow more generously upon Christians remorse over their divisions and a longing for unity. Many men all over the world have been touched by this grace, and even among our separated brethren, by the prompting of the Holy Spirit's grace, a movement every day for the wider restoration of unity among all Christians. At this movement, which is called ecumenical, are those who invoke the Triune God and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior, and not merely as individuals, but also together in groups, in which they heard the Gospel and that the individual is said to have them and the Church of God Most, however, although in different ways, aspire to the Church of God and a visible, that is truly universal and sent to the whole world that the world may be converted to the Gospel and so be saved for glory of God "6.8. This statement UR decree must be read in context of the whole conciliar magisterium. The Second Vatican Council expresses the Church's decision to take on the task of ecumenism to promoting Christian unity and to present it with conviction and force: "This Sacred Council exhorts all the Catholic faithful, recognizing the signs of the times, participate with enthusiasm work of ecumenism "7.
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The ecumenical commitment of the Catholic Church