The "condescension" of God, a school for the person

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146. God, wishing to speak to men as friends, (⁵⁰⁷) manifests in a special way his pedagogy by adapting what he has to say by solicitous providence for our earthly condition. (⁵⁰⁸) This implies for catechesis the never-ending task of finding a language capable of communicating the word of God and the creed of the Church, which is its development, in the various circumstances of those who hear it. (⁵⁰⁹) At the same time, it maintains the certainty that, by the grace of God, this can be done and that the Holy Spirit will give us the joy of doing it. Therefore pedagogical instructions adequate for catechesis are those which permit the communication of the whole word of God in the concrete existence of people. (⁵¹⁰)