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Church Signs – these signs actually appeared on church properties.

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Catholic WORD of the Week

“Image of God (also Imago Dei)  - The human person is created possessing a spiritual nature that is free, spiritual and moral, and which therefore mirrors the Divine Nature.  This image remains within the human person, even after original sin, and the personal sins of individuals cannot abolish it.  Because this image remains intact, it was possible for God to become Incarnate.  The image of God in the human person means that there is a certain proportionality or similarity between God and the human person, and this similarity of nature made the Incarnation possible, for through this image, God was able to take on human flesh.  The image of God in human form was not destroyed by original sin, even though our “likeness” to God was abolished by it.  Through the imparting of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, this likeness to God was restored.  Thus, the redemptive work of Christ is in a sense a “new creation” because it restored what was lost by Adam.  However, it is not an entirely new work, as it restored what was already present but deformed.  The image of God in the human person spurs the Christian faith and hope.  It induces faith, because only through God’s grace is it possible to restore the fullness of our humanness.  Only through the infusion of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which reconstruct the likeness of God destroyed by original sin, is it possible to regain human fullness.  The image of God in the human person also induces hope because it is only through the gratuitous love that God confers on the person is restoration of the image brought about.  Hope is not to be placed in anything human but only in God.” 
 Our Sunday’s Visitor Catholic Encyclopedia, page 496