| The mystery of the Incarnation of Christ bind the two elements, searchable and past tracing out, science and mystery Author: Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos after the birth of Christ, we are able to describe all stages of embryo development, but we are making use of faith to understand that the God who gives life, the Creator, the Lord of all things, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Word of the nature of the Father (1), was present at every stage of embryonic development. That and only that is the deeper meaning of the evangelical phrase: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us" (2). | |
| What beautiful words: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you: therefore he who is born will be called holy, Son of God!". (3) Thus, in this wonderful union, was a zygote with a chromosome itself. But at the zygote was the Word of God. In the zygote was the salvation of men. About seven days later came the Attachment of the blastocyst into the lining of the endometrium and God was reduced to nothing that is a human embryo. But the embryo was the Son of God and He was the salvation of men. alecítico That egg was developed gradually and as it progressed segmentation of the egg, began their differentiation and growth of the outlines of tissues, organs and embryonic apparatus. And that egg alecítico was the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, and He was the salvation of men, of all men, of every human being (4). And yet in the first month of pregnancy when the fetus measured as 0.8 to 1.5 centimeters, God's heart began to beat with the force of the heart of Mary, and began to use the umbilical cord feed his Mother, the Immaculate Virgin. The Word of God was absolutely dependent on a human being, but he had complete autonomy genetics. still have nine months to elapse in which the Word of God floating in the amniotic fluid within the placenta that protected him from the cold and heat and food and gave him oxygen before birth in Bethlehem and view the first human face, surely one of his mother, with newly opened eyes. That was how Jesus Christ became the firstborn of every creature (5), the new Adam of the new creation. The Son of God redeemed creation from the most wonderful work of it, man. The redemption of man started from an embryonic state. Therefore, the Catholic physician should pass through this lens to understand their mission: the Son of God was a zygote, an embryo and a fetus, before tinkering around the streets of Nazareth, preaching on the shores of the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, or die crucified outside Jerusalem. The Son of God assumed completely, without rebates, the vocation of being human. Medicine and creation science in the twentieth century, great progress has been fulfilled. It has almost everything one can identify the human genetic code, has broken the mystery of the origin of life and has penetrated deep into the process of conception. However, it is still a pending issue: the study of man as man in all its depth. man not as biology, psychology or the man, but of human essence, the man in depth: their ideals, their unspeakable fears, their motivations, their questions and their answers, their beliefs, their emotions, their ability to overcome, disappointments, love and pain. can say that science is on the threshold of the human spirit as to a foreign country in which it is impossible to penetrate. But persuasion is a scientist who comes honestly to the study of man: not all end in genetics, or psychology, or psychiatry. There is a spirit than biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics, attention, the same spirit that makes possible investigation. Man is a psychosomatic unity, soma and psyche. From the embryonic stage involves a mystery and a special dignity, the spiritual being. And the medicine can not forget this. Today, when we see living human beings as laboratory equipment used or disposed of in the form of frozen embryos, when we see terminally ill patients isolated in rooms equipped with the latest technical advances, but abandoned the warmth and closeness of own, comes to mind a question: is not forgetting the science as depths of man and not just ignoring those that escape their field of study? The mystery of the mystery man is a being who is a citizen of two worlds. Animal "? yes. "Biological? yes. But endowed with a spirit elusive, unfathomable. Son of God, brother of Jesus Christ. A being who is social in nature and needs of the human presence of their own to not feel strange in their environment. Imperfect creature suffering pain, but redeemed by Christ. Intensive Care Units where many patients are struggling between life and death, have been occupied by the art, and be welcomed, leaving out the comforting presence of family or caring spiritual support of the priest. The technique appears to have expired on considerations of the human spirit, when it is necessary complementarity: technique? yes, but without forgetting the intimate dimension of the human spirit that continues to escape the hands of medical science: "Know that the human being infinitely beyond human beings." (6) What must be tragic to see a pediatrician of their expert hands, escaping the child's life!. often gives the impression that the patient is not a human person, but a biological individual, a very understandable given the technological development of medical treatment, but something that human nature responds to the patient, who suffers, because "the patient wants to feel that the disease is understood as a life event, and healing as an act that helps the living, not the mere defect repair a machine. But at the same time, this is impossible without a certain ethical attitude, that is, without a deep respect for life and without sympathy for her. Emphasize this is not sentimentality, on the contrary belongs to the essence of health attitude. "(7) The man must exercise control of the creation God entrusted to him, 8 but the domain of creation begins by mastering itself. The doctor is probably someone who lives more clearly the struggle to dominate the creation in the sphere of life and put at the service of man. From research or cures, he is struggling to grasp in depth the behavior of nature and oriented towards the good of mankind, to the preservation of life. But do not forget that this must be done from himself, the molecules of his being, from their own pain and anxieties, from their fears and desires to love and be loved, from his life and, especially, from your spirit. The doctor sees itself serving man, experiencing itself as experienced by their patients, and there must be born a human compassion and a special closeness to the sufferer, with which he uses. medicine in light of the mystery of This reflection brings us to another mystery facing medicine in this century: the mystery of pain. The man of the twentieth century is at odds with the pain. We want to eradicate the entire cost of his life, but has begun to realize that is impossible. Hedonism has led us to seek perfect health, eternal youth, the fullness of prolonged forces as long as possible. And through this project, the onset of illness, pain, desolation, becomes bitter unacceptable. Where is this pretense of perfection when the human being is faced with yet incurable diseases such as AIDS? Where is the art when we have no hand pill immediate remedy? Where is science to the inescapable reality of death? Why human genius has not yet been able to throw his life the burden of the cross? Human life is full of crosses that we can not shake, thousands of crosses that we play from far or near. There are many human pains are no medical remedy. Faced with this problem, what attitude will you take? Does the of masochistic pleasure in the pain? No, the human being redeemed by Christ, who is in pain a way of love, Christ to the cross. "The pain and sickness are part of the mystery of man on earth. is certainly right to fight the disease, because health is a gift from God. But it is also important to read the plan of God when suffering knocks at our door. "(9) Jesus was not a masochist, but loved the pain refused. (10) That is the basis of acceptance of pain. There's your lesson: "If any man will come after me must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." (11) To go after Christ there to deny himself and take this cross. "Christians must imitate Christ's sufferings, and not try to achieve pleasure. It comforts a pushover when it tells you: Looks the temptations of this world, that of all the Lord will deliver you, if your heart is not far away from him. For precisely to strengthen your heart he came to suffer, he came to die, to be spit upon and crowned with thorns, to listen to insults, to be finally nailed to a cross. All this he did it for you, while you have not been able to do anything, not by him but by yourself. "(12)" For two thousand years since the day of the Passion, the Cross shines as the supreme manifestation of God's love for us. Who are able to accept in your life, how the pain experience, enlightened by faith, becomes a source of hope and salvation. "(13) The sign of the disciples of Christ is the generous acceptance of suffering, something absurd for Man today and always, a folly, (14), perhaps because, as Saint Paul says, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to him. And neither can he know it can be judged only spiritually. "(15) And back to the reality of the human spirit, something that is beyond the scope of science. San Basilio noted: "A menudo, sin embargo, las enfermedades son castigos por los pecados, enviadas para nuestra conversión. El Señor, está escrito, castiga al que ama.(16) Y más aún: "Por eso hay entre vosotros muchos enfermos y muchos débiles, y mueren no pocos. Si nos juzgásemos a nosotros mismos, no seríamos castigados. Mas, al ser castigados, somos corregidos por el Señor, para que no seamos condenados con el mundo".(17) Por ello, si nos encontramos en condiciones similares, habiendo reconocido nuestras culpas y abandonado el uso de la medicina, debemos soportar en silencio esas penas, de acuerdo a aquél que dice: "La cólera de Yahveh soportaré, ya que he pecado contra él"(18); and we also make amends, to eat the fruits worthy of repentance, remembering back to the Lord saying: 'Look, you're cured sin no more, lest something worse befall you "(19y20). The disease is also, therefore, of conversion. His Holiness John Paul II is a master of the meaning of pain, which taught us to find the meaning of this mystery that grips the man. He is a pope very close to human suffering. Is easily identified with the pain of the sick, shared the misery of others, is interested in everything in which man appears attacked physically or spiritually. still remember, For example, the time in an apostolic visit to Brazil, a child of the slums broke the security cordon and approached the Holy Father to ask for alms. The Pope took his ring and gave it. Behind this gesture reveals the compassionate heart of a man near the pain of others. Seeing John Paul II can say those words of St. Paul: "Full in my flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for His body which is the Church." (21) is precisely with this thought Pope begins his apostolic letter Salvifici Doloris. It reflects his deep reflections on the meaning of human suffering linked to the cross of Jesus Christ. Suffering, according to the profound thought of Pope John Paul II, is "truly supernatural and human time. It is supernatural because it is rooted in the divine mystery of the redemption of the world, and is also deeply human, because he, the man finds himself, his own humanity, their dignity and their own mission. "(22) Pain is the profound moment in which man finds himself. Those who have worked in the health ministry knows the truth so dramatic that is behind this. Pain is a moment when the man comes face to face with himself, openly, without any attenuation, without distortions. Pope also said that pain is a test, (23) significant evidence of love, which makes present the love of God in the world. Human suffering is often an expression of love. The pain of the loved one who is no longer with us is a new way to express our love. The same love that was evident prior to touching or hugging, is now pain of absence. Love and pain are a combination that goes hand in our Christian faith. Love and pain are realities that are involved, living closely together in Christian imagery that fills our churches, our temples, and in the depths of the hearts of Christians. Hacho love pain and pain always lived in love, following the example of Christ. Pain without love breeds only bitterness and despair, rebellion and despair. Love without pain is fragile, superficial, incomplete, capricious. The culture in which we are immersed promises happiness in this life and is presented as the hand, something easy to build without too much effort, but humans know by experience that happiness in love requires sacrifice personal donation . The pain may be a way to love and love authentic and complete only get the pain of self-abnegation of self in favor of another. Pain is also a journey of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is reflecting the face of the Pietà by Michelangelo, is a pain for his dead son and at the same time, a serene and confident hope that not all end there. There are after. The pain is not the end of human existence, but a step, a Passover to salvation. The pain is salvific. pain experienced with a sense of eternity is a sign of hope for the world today. Like the "Good Thief" gospel melts and turns to see the suffering of Jesus Christ, (24) and the Christian response to human suffering is surely one of the greatest signs of credibility of the Gospel. OK serve pain and suffering are the great messages of today's Christianity to a world that often unsupportive despises the sufferer. The pain experienced in the sacrifice for the other is the sign of a disciple of Christ: "Celebrating the Eucharist by eating his flesh and drinking his blood means accepting the logic of the cross and service. In other words, it means being willing to sacrifice for others , as he did. "(25) Pope John Paul II sees his suffering as a service to the Church. Suffering is to serve, says in his Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris. (26) is completing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the Church. The Pope is suffering as a way to live your identity "Servant of the Servants of God." A man whose vocation not to live for himself but for others. medicine in light of the mystery of love. This last thought brings us to the keystone of the medical profession, today and forever: a love for the man. Medicine is not a theoretical science that states laws and theories just by following the empirical and theoretical. It is something else, is a science in the service of man in the most valuable in life, it is the basis of the other gifts. Medicine is a science that is service and service is the most accurate word to define the attitude of Christ towards the man during his life among us and to give his life a ransom for many. (27) The doctor, nurse, health worker, is also someone who serves and gives his life for many men . From his studies, doctor, nurse, health worker, put their lives in the service of others in the self-sacrifice. Many sleepless nights for the sick, how many hours of delivery, many hardships, many sacrifices made for love in caring for neighbors in need!. Medicine is love that brings relief to pain. is mercy, loving approach to the patient, which is seen as neighbor suffering. Technical study is to remedy the pain. It's science that approaches the human being, a sinner, but God's beloved child. Medicine is a discipline that man discovers in his high dignity and to God as the ultimate reference of the dignity that goes beyond the limits of their knowledge: "What, or who was the reason for setting up man in such dignity? Certainly, nothing but the unquenchable love you contemplate your creature in yourself and you let yourself captivated by her love. For the love you created it for the love you gave her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good " . (28) The patient is not only the object of study in medicine, but the neighbor who served with the generous gift of life itself and the admiration of those who know they are meeting a being who holds a dignity and mystery: the dignity of the son of God and the mystery of the indwelling Trinity. In this sense, medical science is a gift from God which enables man to redeem one of the most visible effects that sin has left in its nature: the disease. San Basilio he explained with a language which is very eloquent in its simplicity: "Indeed, when our body is lying ill, afflicted by disease or discomfort of various kinds, whether because of external or internal, due of the diet and now suffers from excess, or by the lack, then God, moderator of our existence has given us the gift of medical science, through which redimensionalo superfluous and what grows in very small proportions. In fact, just as if we were in paradise, we would have no way of knowing need not practice agriculture or, in the same way, if we were immune to diseases, such as before the fall, would not need the help of any medicine to cure. However, after being expelled from that place and after hearing: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (29), having spent much effort to cultivate the earth, have invented the art of agriculture to mitigate the harmful effects of the curse of God, while God favored us the intelligence and knowledge of that art. Well, just because we have been ordered back to the same land which had been formed and are linked to our painful flesh, for death because of sin and therefore subject to disease, we are also offered medical assistance, so that at certain times and to some extent, patients could be cured. So it's no coincidence that germinated in the soil for plants to cure every disease and, moreover, have been raised by the will of the Creator that alleviated our problems. Precisely for this reason, natural healing that effectively hidden in the roots, the flowers, leaves, fruits and juices in whatever metal or of therapeutic sea are in no way different from the similar items found in foods or beverages. Christians should worry about medicine use, when necessary, so as not to attribute to it all the causes of good or poor health, but to use the means that she offers to give glory to God .. . anyway, and certainly not for the fact that some foolishly using the medicine, we must give up its usefulness. Indeed, not because certain intemperate, practicing the art of cooking or baking or fashion, abuse in the conception of things voluptuous, exceeding the limits of necessity, for this all the arts should be rejected by us ... We are given the benefit of good health, either through the wine mixed with oil, 30 as in the case of one who was found with the thieves, either by means of figs, as in Hezekiah. (31 and 32) The doctor and health worker cooperating in the fight against the effects of sin, ultimate cause of the disease. The doctors know what it means that redemption of our bodies (33) of which St. Paul speaks. Their struggle against evil biological is a sign of God's love that is regaining the creation by man. The health worker uses the gifts of God to serve his brothers. If man, any man can cooperate with God in his saving work, for medicine, the fight against the disorder left by the sin in the world. Doctors and health workers, are signs of this love of God to man. Both men and women who put their lives in the service of man fighting evil and defeating it with good. Sean instruments of the mercy of God, be present, redeeming love of Christ that welcomes and cure. Do not let your vocation is lost in a cold pragmatism that distant go beyond a technical and natural laws. The doctor, the health worker can be a sign of God's love among men, his brothers, who puts his heart in the midst of human misery. That is mercy, God's weakness and strength. In two thousand years, humans have learned many things. has established a deeper relationship with the surrounding reality. We can say that now more accurately called the created world, from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Has discovered the laws that govern life and the causes of the disease, and away from the old unscientific conjectures. In last few centuries has made great strides in penetrating the major processes of human life. Precisely because of that, now that we know more the man, now that medicine has penetrated the most secret of the transmission of life, we move on art and medical science advances also in the greater respect for this wonderful gift God. would be worthless if the entire scientific effort that did not result in a more comprehensive service to every human being with respect for their integrity and the prayerful consideration of the spiritual wealth that we manifest in his works, however, gets out of our survey instruments. Respect the man, love the man, Protecting its mystery, its spirituality. Shut these ideas by referring to Mary, the Mother who gave his own generous for the Incarnate Word (34), and who accompanied the wounded Christ Calvary, (35) covered with sores, abused, with the thirst of dying (36). Calvary reality is that many lives in emergencies. Mary accompanies the wounded, bleeding and bruised in a scene that can bring comfort to the emergency room. Is he, and from his cross terminal wounded, at his Mother of receiving consolation. So Christians, when we feel overwhelmed by grief, we have learned of Christ to seek refuge in the arms of Mary, as the child is faced with danger and runs to his mother's womb to vent in tears. May she, consoling the afflicted, help the sick, accompany us and help us to investigate all searchable and worship quietly and humbly past tracing. To see the 3D and 4D images of an embryo in their first weeks of life in the womb, in the first four pictures, click to view the video NOTES 1 Cf Nicene Creed. 2 Cf John 1.14. 3 Lucas 1.35. 4 Cf Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration Dominus Iesus, 12-15, 6 August 2000. 5 Cf Colossians 1.15 to 16. 6 "Apprenez that infinitment passe l'homme l'homme", Blaise Pascal, Pensées. Romano Guardini 7, Ethics, lessons at the University of Munich, c 11, 2, BAC, Madrid 1999, p 715. 8 Cf Genesis 1.28 to 30, 9.7. 9 John Paul II, Homily for the Jubilee of patients and health workers, Rome, February 11, 2000. 10 Cf Matthew 26.39. 11 Cf Matthew 16.24, Mark 8.34, Luke 9.23. 12 San Augustine, Sermon on Pastors Sermon from 46.10 to 11. 13 JOHN PAUL II, Homily for the Jubilee of patients and health workers, Rome, February 11 2000. 14 "For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved for us is the power of God. For it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and mutilates the intelligence of the intelligent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Is not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? In fact, as the world through their own wisdom knew not God in His divine wisdom, it pleased God to save believers through the foolishness of preaching. Thus, while Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom and God's weakness is stronger than the strength of men "(1 Corinthians 1:18-25). January 15 Corinthians 2.14. Proverbs 16 3.12. Corinthians January 17 from 11.30 to 32. 18 Micah 7.9. 19 John 5.14. 20 BASILIO IL GRANDE, Regole lunghe, from 55.1 to 5. 21 Colossians 1: 24. 22 JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris 31, February 11, 1984. 23 Cf Salvifici Doloris 23. 24 One of the criminals hanging him, saying, 'Are not you the Christ? Then save yourself and us! "But the other rebuked him saying:" Do you not fear God, you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong. " And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Jesus said, "I say to you today shall be with Me in Paradise" (Luke 23.39-43). 25 JUAN PABLO II, Homily at the close of the XV World Youth Day, Tor Vergata, Rome, August 20, 2000, 5. 26 Cf Salvifici Doloris 27. 27 Cf Matthew 20.28, Mark 10.45. 28 SANTA CATALINA DE SIENA, Il dialogue Provvidenza della Divina, 13: ed. G. Cavallini (Rome 1995) p. 43. Genesis 29 3.19. Luke 10.30-34 30 Cf. 31 Cf 2 Kings 20.7. 32 BASILIO IL GRANDE, Regole lunghe, 55.1-5 33 "The creation, in fact, was subjected to futility, not of its own, but by Him who subjected it, in hope of being freed from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. We know that the whole creation groans and suffers to this day labor pains. And not only, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we ourselves groan within ourselves longing for redemption of our body "(Letter of Paul to the Romans 8.20-23). \u200b\u200b 34 Cf Luke 1.38. 35 Cf John 19.25. 36 Cf John 19.28. 
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