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MEMORIAL OF THE SEVEN HOLY FOUNDERS OF THE SERVITE ORDER: Underlying all the Church’s thinking is the awareness that she is the bearer of a message which has its origin in God himself. The knowledge which the Church offers to man has its origin not in any speculation of her own, however sublime, but in the word of God which she has received in faith. At the origin of our life of faith there is an encounter, unique in kind, which discloses a mystery hidden for long ages but which is now revealed. As the source of love, God desires to make himself known; and the knowledge which the human being has of God perfects all that the human mind can know of the meaning of life. With the Incarnation of the Son of God, our life is even now a foretaste of the fulfillment of time which is to come. In the Incarnation of the Son of God, the Eternal enters time and God takes on a human face. The truth communicated in Christ’s revelation is offered to every man and woman who would welcome it as the word which is the absolutely valid source of meaning for human life. Now, in Christ, all have access to the Father, since by his Death and Resurrection Christ has bestowed the divine life which the first Adam had refused. Through this revelation, men and women are offered the ultimate truth about their own life and about the goal of history. Where might the human being seek the answer to dramatic questions such as pain, the suffering of the innocent, and death, if not in the light streaming from the mystery of Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection?-- Saint John Paul II ... See MoreSee Less