God is sleeping?

[shrewsbury]

the Catholic school that just lost in court has redone their contracts, which was posted in the other thread. There is a link in the contract to the official Catholic catechism. I was looking around and found this;

Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep. the earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . . He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him - He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead."

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1R.HTM

I never knew this was part of their teachings and I am surprised by it. I do not agree with this in the least, nor am I really sure the purpose for it.

[Wickabee]

Sounds like a good movie, but little else.

[centrehice]

What utter tripe.

[JustAlex]

The Catholic church should focus more on their scandals and less on this type of stuff.

[Wickabee]

This actually relates to a serious legal issue they seem to have so I see no need to ignore it.

However, they do seem to have more pressing matters, but we all procrastinate from time to time...for hundreds of years...in the public eye...

[imronron]

The Church Catholic has always taught that Jesus decended into hades and rose again. Not sure which part you disagree with.

[Wickabee]

The Church Catholic has always taught that Jesus decended into hades and rose again. Not sure which part you disagree with.

The part where he took a nap.

[shrewsbury]

God is sleeping?
God is searching for Adam?
If this is the god of the OT or NT God has no need to search for anything.

[imronron]

The part which you highlighted was from an ancient homily on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, in which the homilist attempts to take you back to that very day Christ decended into "hell". Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead(ie. sleeping) Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom": "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him. This homily could be more likened to a parable(not Gospel) in which the homilist tries to explain Jesus' saving grace in words and actions that would be readily understandable to his congregation. you are correct God has no need to search for anything. If you would like I have a more full text of that particular homily I could post.

[shrewsbury]

If you would like I have a more full text of that particular homily I could post.

I would love it!

Thanks for your time!