THE JOY of which Catholics partake is that God became man - as C. S. Lewis learned from J. R. R. Tolkien, "myth became fact" - because of Adam's Fall. God initiated the redemption of humanity because he would not leave us in the state of Original Sin.O felix culpa! In Christ, God returned us to our original innocence through his Death and Resurrection. The Sacraments that Christ instituted in the Church help ensure our state of grace. So we are granted by grace a return to Eden (Christ arose, let us remember, from the Tomb in a garden).
But our task is not merely to stay in a state of original innocence. Our task is continue the spiritual journey to our final destination: the Beatific Vision. Deo gratias.
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