What means "affirm his victory...dearly"

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The Pope said
“Christ wants today’s men and women to help him “***affirm his victory ***using his own weapons: the weapons of justice and truth, mercy, forgiveness and love” and spread the kind of hope that inspires courage to do good even when it costs dearly”
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I am trying to understand
what means “affirm his victory”
 
It means to confirm His victory on the Cross over every evil.
 
Hey EMCEE X . Welcome. 🙂

Pope Benedict XVI’s words could be interpreted several ways … all of them good. To build on the previous post, Eucharisted stated
Eucharisted said:
It means to confirm His victory on the Cross over every evil.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church # 421 (and many other sections – these linked pages might prove useful - if you find a little time … vatican.va/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm ,
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a8.htm )

…confirm the above quote.

421 Christians believe that “the world has been established and kept in being by the Creator’s love; has fallen into slavery to sin but has been set free by Christ, crucified and risen to break the power of the evil one. . .” (GS 2 § 2).

We can elaborate a little:

Christ’s victory on the Cross (over sin and death) by His sacrifice is definitive. The Sacrifice and its merits and these equally as offered during Holy Mass are timeless.
But on this earth, we remain in time, and we still have a freedom to choose to do good or to do evil…which always has an effect on the Mystical Body of Christ. Choosing to do good is one way of affirming Christ’s victory - in us and in those around us. We remain in need of God’s grace to do good. If we were all doing a little more good there would be less of the “signs” Pope Benedict XVI speaks of in in your linked article:

But while the resurrected Christ vanquished death, “there still remain very many, in fact, too many signs of its former dominion,” said the pope.

If there is a victory, then there is also a struggle. That’s where we find ourselves – in the struggle. Actually, better terminology may be that we are caught up in the spiritual war that rages around us … we are the Church Militant. In this war our greatest battle will always be with self.

1 Timothy :18-19

I entrust this charge to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophetic words once spoken about you. Through them may you fight a good fight by having faith and a good conscience. Some, by rejecting conscience, have made a shipwreck of their faith,

So , what will make the most difference, what will enable us to aquiesce to the loving request of Pope Benedict XVI, will be the life of faith we lead – the fight we fight; using the weapons he proposes : “ justice and truth, mercy, forgiveness and love."

(just my “take” on what he could be saying).
 
NeedImprovement said:
Hey EMCEE X . Welcome. 🙂

Pope Benedict XVI’s words could be interpreted several ways … all of them good. To build on the previous post, Eucharisted stated

The Catechism of the Catholic Church # 421 (and many other sections – these linked pages might prove useful - if you find a little time … vatican.va/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm ,
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a8.htm )

…confirm the above quote.

421 Christians believe that “the world has been established and kept in being by the Creator’s love; has fallen into slavery to sin but has been set free by Christ, crucified and risen to break the power of the evil one. . .” (GS 2 § 2).

We can elaborate a little:

Christ’s victory on the Cross (over sin and death) by His sacrifice is definitive. The Sacrifice and its merits and these equally as offered during Holy Mass are timeless.
But on this earth, we remain in time, and we still have a freedom to choose to do good or to do evil…which always has an effect on the Mystical Body of Christ. Choosing to do good is one way of affirming Christ’s victory - in us and in those around us. We remain in need of God’s grace to do good. If we were all doing a little more good there would be less of the “signs” Pope Benedict XVI speaks of in in your linked article:

But while the resurrected Christ vanquished death, “there still remain very many, in fact, too many signs of its former dominion,” said the pope.

If there is a victory, then there is also a struggle. That’s where we find ourselves – in the struggle. Actually, better terminology may be that we are caught up in the spiritual war that rages around us … we are the Church Militant. In this war our greatest battle will always be with self.

1 Timothy :18-19

I entrust this charge to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophetic words once spoken about you. Through them may you fight a good fight by having faith and a good conscience. Some, by rejecting conscience, have made a shipwreck of their faith,

So , what will make the most difference, what will enable us to aquiesce to the loving request of Pope Benedict XVI, will be the life of faith we lead – the fight we fight; using the weapons he proposes : “ justice and truth, mercy, forgiveness and love."

(just my “take” on what he could be saying).
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Thank you for the welcome

You said
“So , what will make the most difference, what will enable us to aquiesce to the loving request of Pope Benedict XVI, will be the life of faith we lead – the fight we fight; using the weapons he proposes : “ justice and truth, mercy, forgiveness and love.”

This fight we fight using those weapon—who or what are we fighting useing those weapons?

I am a ignorant man
break it down for me please----it is really important for me to KNOW who or what we are fighting useing those weapons!
 
I_Believe said:
Sin, Satan.
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This above quote says it - reduced to its solid simplest form.

So if we are using those weapons - “mercy, forgiveness, justice, love” , they’re all in harmony with God’s graces . They help to strengthen us to grow in virtue and reduce our fallen nature’s tendency towards sin. They help acheive the ultimate goal of drawing us closer to God.

Using the weapon of “truth” fights against lies and the father of lies, but much more importantly, it speaks of who God is [John 14:6] and of his love for us … again achieving the ultimate goal of drawing us closer to Him.

(*I visited your myspace page but haven’t updated adobe yet - which it says I need to do before I can check out the tunes). … Just to say:

If you’re getting the Word out , you’re right there in the fight already.
 
NeedImprovement said:
This above quote says it - reduced to its solid simplest form.

So if we are using those weapons - “mercy, forgiveness, justice, love” , they’re all in harmony with God’s graces . They help to strengthen us to grow in virtue and reduce our fallen nature’s tendency towards sin. They help acheive the ultimate goal of drawing us closer to God.

Using the weapon of “truth” fights against lies and the father of lies, but much more importantly, it speaks of who God is [John 14:6] and of his love for us … again achieving the ultimate goal of drawing us closer to Him.

(*I visited your myspace page but haven’t updated adobe yet - which it says I need to do before I can check out the tunes). … Just to say:

If you’re getting the Word out , you’re right there in the fight already.
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Thank you and

FIERCE IS THE FIGHT FOR GOD AND THE RIGHT
SWEET NAME OF JESUS IN THEE IS OUR MIGHT
SAVE IN THE WAY THAT ONLY YOU CAN SAVE
YOUR RESURECTION IS WHY WE ARE BRAVE!!

May God bless you!
May His Christ keep you secure!
And may the Holy Ghost lead you home safely!
-ee
 
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