Speaking of the Indelible Image of God, and a variation on a classic Catholic expression:
18. The first conviction, drawn from Revelation, holds that the dignity of the human person comes from the love of the Creator, who has imprinted the indelible features of his image on every person (cf. Genesis 1:26). The Creator calls each person to know him, to love him, and to live in a covenantal relationship with him, while calling the person also to live in fraternity, justice, and peace with all others.
A bit of an expansion on how we serve God, first in how we view our relationship. A covenant is a mutuality between believers and their God. Our active service includes the call to live in relationship with other people, a stated covenant with them or not.
In this perspective, dignity refers not only to the soul but also to the person as an inseparable unity of body and soul. Accordingly, dignity is also inherent in each person’s body, which participates in its own way in being in imago Dei (in the image of God) and is also called to share in the soul’s glory in the divine beatitude.
Click this link to read the DDDF document on the Vatican site.
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