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A expressão «que estais nos céus» não designa um lugar, mas sim a majestade de Deus e a sua presença no coração dos justos. O céu, a Casa do Pai, constitui a verdadeira pátria, para onde caminhamos e à qual desde já pertencemos.
« Qui es in caelis » quemdam locum non denotat, sed maiestatem Dei et Eius in iustorum corde praesentiam. Caelum, Patris mansio, veram constituit patriam ad quam tendimus et ad quam iam pertinemus. (244) Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo 71, 3: CCL 24A, 425 (PL 52, 401). (245) Eph 3,12; Heb 3,6; 4,16; 10,19; 1 Io 2,28; 3,21; 5,14. (246) Tertullianus, De oratione, 3, 1: CCL 1, 258-259 (PL 1, 1257). (247) Cf Io 1,1. (248) Cf 1 Io 5,1. (249) Cf 1 Io 1,3. (250) Sanctus Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus, Catecheses mystagogicae, 3, 1: SC 126, 120 (PG 33, 1088). (251) Sanctus Cyprianus Carthaginiensis, De dominica Oratione, 9: CCL 3A, 94 (PL 4, 541). (252) Cf Concilium Vaticanum II, Const. past. Gaudium et spes, 22: AAS 58 (1966) 1042. (253) Sanctus Ambrosius, De sacramentis, 5, 19: CSEL 73, 66 (PL 16, 450). (254) Sanctus Cyprianus Carthaginiensis, De dominica Oratione, 11: CCL 3A, 96 (PL 4, 543). (255) Sanctus Ioannes Chrysostomus, De angusta porta et in Orationem dominicam, 3: PG 51, 44. (256) Sanctus Gregorius Nyssenus, Homiliae in Orationem dominicam, 2: Gregorii Nysseni opera, ed. W. Jaeger-H. Langerbeck, v. 72 (Leiden 1992) p. 30 (PG 44, 1148). (257) Sanctus Ioannes Cassianus, Conlatio 9, 18, 1: CSEL 13, 265-266 (PL 49, 788). (258) Sanctus Augustinus, De sermone Domini in monte, 2, 4, 16: CCL 35, 106 (PL 34, 1276). (259) Cf Os 2,21-22; 6,1-6. (260) Cf Io 1,17. (261) Cf 1 Io 5,1; Io 3,5. (262) Cf Eph 4,4-6. (263) Cf Concilium Vaticanum II, Decr. Unitatis redintegratio, 8: AAS 57 (1965) 98; Ibid., 22: AAS 57 (1965) 105-106. (264) Cf Mt 5,23-24; 6,14-15. (265) Cf Concilium Vaticanum II, Decl. Nostra aetate, 5: AAS 58 (1966) 743-744. (266) Cf Io 11,52. (267) Sanctus Augustinus, De sermone Domini in monte, 2, 5, 18: CCL 35, 108-109 (PL 34, 1277). (268) Sanctus Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus, Catecheses mystagogicae, 5, 11: SC 126, 160 (PG 33, 1117). (269) Cf Gn 3. (270) Cf Ier 3,19–4,1a; Lc 15,18.21. (271) Cf Is 45,8; Ps 85,12. (272) Cf Io 12,32; 14,2-3; 16,28; 20,17; Eph 4,9-10; Heb 1,3; 2,13. (273) Cf Eph 2,6. (274) Cf Col 3,3. (275) Cf Phil 3,20; Heb 13,14. (276) Epistula ad Diognetum, 5, 8-9: SC 33, 62-64 (Funk 1,398). (277) Cf Concilium Vaticanum II, Const. past. Gaudium et spes, 22: AAS 58 (1966) 1042. ORATIO CHRISTIANA ORATIO DOMINICA: «PATER NOSTER» SEPTEM PETITIONES