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Catechism of the Catholic Church

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  • PROLOGUE
  1: Jn 17 3
  2: 1 Tim 2:3-4.
  3: Acts 4:12



  • PROLOGUE
      • I. The life of man - to know and love God
  4: Mt 28:19-20
  5: Mk 16:20
  6: Cf. Acts 2:42



  • PROLOGUE
      • II. Handing on the Faith: Catechesis
  7: Cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi tradendae 1; 2.
  8: CT 18.
  9: CT 18.
  10: CT 13.
  11: Cf. CT 12.
  12: CT 13.
  13: Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 1985,. Final Report II B a, 4.
  14: John Paul II, Discourse at the Closing of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 7 December 1985: [...]



  • PROLOGUE
      • III. The Aim and Intended Readership of the Catechism
  15: Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 1985, Final Report II B a, 4.



  • PROLOGUE
      • IV. Structure of this Catechism
  16: Cf. Mt 10:32;Rom 10:9



  • PROLOGUE
      • VI. Necessary Adaptations
  17: Cf. CT 20-22; 25.
  18: Roman Catechism, Preface II; cf. I Cor 9:22; I Pt 2:2
  19: Roman Catechism, Preface 10; cf. I Cor 13 8.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD
        • I. The Desire for God
  1: Vatican Council II, GS 19 # 1.
  2: Acts 17:26-28.
  3: GS 19 # 1.
  4: Cf. GS 19-21; Mt 13:22; Gen 3:8-10;Jon 1:3.
  5: Ps 105:3
  6: St. Augustine, Conf. I, I, I: PL 32, 659-661.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD
        • II. Ways of Coming to Know God
  7: Rom 1:19-20; cf., Acts 14:15, 17; 17:27-28; Wis 13:1-9.
  8: St. Augustine, Sermo 241, 2: PL 38, 1134,
  9: GS 18 # 1; cf. 14 # 2.
  10: St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th I, 2, 3.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD
        • III. The Knowledge of God According to the Church
  11: Vatican Council I, Dei Filius 2: DS 3004 cf. 3026; Vatican Council II, Dei Verbum 6.
  12: Cf. Gen 1:27
  13: Pius XII, Humani generis 561: DS 3875.
  14: Pius XII, Humani generis 561: DS 3876; cf. Dei Filius 2: DS 3005; DV 6; St. Thomas Aquinas, S T[...]



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD
        • IV. How Can We Speak about God?
  15: Wis 13:5
  16: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Anaphora.
  17: Lateran Council IV: DS 806.
  18: St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG 1, 30.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
  1: Cf. Dei Filius DS 3015.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 1 THE REVELATION OF GOD
          • I. God Reveals His "Plan of Loving Goodness"
  2: DV 2; cf. Eph 1:9; 2:18; 2 Pt 1:4
  3: I Tim 6:16, cf. Eph 1:4-5.
  4: DV 2.
  5: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 20, 2: PG 7/1, 944; cf. 3, 17, 1; 4, 12, 4; 4, 21, 3.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 1 THE REVELATION OF GOD
          • II. The Stages of Revelation
  6: DV 3; cf. Jn 1:3; Rom 1:19-20
  7: DV 3; cf. Gen 3:15; Rom 2:6-7.
  8: Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118.
  9: Gen 10:5; cf. 9:9-10, 16; 10:20-31.
  10: Cf. Acts 17:26-27; Dt 4:19; Dt (LXX) 32:8.
  11: Cf. Wis 10:5;Gen 11:4-6
  12: Cf. Rom 1:18-25.
  13: Cf. Gen 9:16; Lk 21:24; DV 3.
  14: Cf. Gen 14:18; Heb 7:3; Ezek 14:14.
  15: Jn 11:52
  16: Gen 12:1
  17: Gen 17:5; 12:3 (LXX); cf. Gal 3:8
  18: Cf. Rom 11:28; Jn 11:52; 10:16.
  19: Cf. Rom 11:17-18, 24.
  20: Cf. DV 3.
  21: Dt 28: 10; Roman Missal, Good i Friday, General Intercession VI; see also Ex 19:6
  22: Cf. Is 2:2-4; Jer 31:31-34; Heb 10:16
  23: Cf. Ezek 36; Is 49:5-6; 53:11
  24: Cf. Ezek 2:3; Lk 1:38



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 1 THE REVELATION OF GOD
          • III. Christ Jesus -- "Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation"
  25: DV 2.
  26: Heb 1:1-2
  27: St. John of the Cross, the Ascent of Mount Carmel 2, 22, 3-5 in The Collected Works of St. Joh[...]
  28: DV 4; cf. I Tim 6:14; Titus 2:13



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION
  29: 1 Tim 2:4
  30: cf. Jn 14:6
  31: DV 7; cf. 2 Cor 1:20; 3:16 - 4:6



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION
          • I. The Apostolic Tradition
  32: DV 7; cf. Mt 28:19-20; Mk 16:15
  33: DV 7.
  34: DV 7.
  35: DV 7 # 2; St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 3, 1: PG 7/1, 848; Harvey, 2, 9.
  36: DV 8 # 1.
  37: DV 8 # 1.
  38: DV 8 # 3.
  39: DV 8 # 3; cf. Col 3:16.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION
          • II. The Relationship Between Tradition and Sacred Scripture
  40: DV 9.
  41: Mt 28:20
  42: DV 9.
  43: DV 9.
  44: DV 9.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION
          • III. The Interpretation of the Heritage of Faith
  45: DV 10 # 1; cf.I Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:12-14(Vulg.).
  46: DV 10 # 1; cf. Acts 2:42 (Greek); Pius XII, Apost. Const. Munificentissimus Deus, 1 November 1[...]
  47: DV 10 # 2.
  48: DV 10 para 2.
  49: Lk 10:16; cf. LG 20.
  50: Cf.Jn 8:31-32.
  51: Cf. Vatican Council I: DS 3016: nexus mysteriorum; LC 25.
  52: UR II.
  53: Cf. I Jn 2:20, 27
  54: Cf. . Jn 16:13
  55: LG 12; cf. St. Augustine, De praed. sanct. 14, 27: PL 44, 980.
  56: LG 12; cf. Jude 3.
  57: DV 8 # 2; cf. Lk 2:19, 51
  58: GS 62 # 7; cf. GS 44 # 2; DV 23; 24; UR 4.
  59: DV 8 # 2.
  60: DV 8 # 2.
  61: St. Gregory the Great, Hom. in Ezek. 1, 7, 8: PL 76, 843D.
  62: DV 10 # 3.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
          • I. Christ - The Unique Word of Sacred Scripture
  63: DV 13.
  64: Cf. Heb 1:1-3
  65: St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103, 4, 1: PL 37, 1378; cf. Ps 104; Jn 1:1
  66: Cf. DV 21.
  67: Th 2:13; cf. DV 24.
  68: DV 21.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
          • II. Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture
  69: DV 11;
  70: DV 11; cf. Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pt 1:19-21; 3:15-16
  71: DV 11.
  72: DV 11.
  73: St. Bernard, S. missus est hom. 4, 11: PL 183, 86.
  74: Cf. Lk 24:45



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
          • III. The Holy Spirit, Interpreter of Scripture
  75: Cf. DV 12 # 1.
  76: DV 12 # 2.
  77: DV 12 # 3.
  78: Cf. DV 12 # 4.
  79: Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-46
  80: St. Thomas Aquinas, Expos. in Ps. 21, 11; cf. Ps 22:14.
  81: Origen, Hom. in Lev. 5, 5: PG 12, 454D.
  82: Cf. Rom 12:6.
  83: St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th I, 1, 10, ad I.
  84: Cf. I Cor 10:2.
  85: I Cor 10:11; cf. Heb 3:1 - 4:11.
  86: Cf. Rev 21:1 - 22:5.
  87: Lettera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia.
  88: DV 12 # 3.
  89: St. Augustine, Contra epistolam Manichaei 5, 6: PL 42, 176.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
          • IV. The Canon of Scripture
  90: Cf. DV 8 # 3.
  91: Cf. DS 179; 1334-1336; 1501-1504.
  92: Cf. DV 14.
  93: DV 15.
  94: DV 15.
  95: DV 15.
  96: DV 17; cf. Rom 1:16
  97: Cf. DV 20.
  98: DV 18.
  99: DV 19; cf. Acts 1:1-2
  100: DV 19.
  101: DV 19.
  102: St. Caesaria the Younger to St. Richildis and St. Radegunde: SCh 345, 480.
  103: St. Therese of Lisieux, Autobiography of a Saint, tr. Ronald Knox (London: Collins, 1960), 175.[...]
  104: Cf. I Cor 10:6, 11; Heb 10:1; l Pt 3:21.
  105: Cf. Mk 12:29-31
  106: Cf. I Cor 5:6-8; 10:1-11.
  107: Cf. St. Augustine, Quaest. in Hept. 2, 73: PL 34,623; Cf. DU 16.
  108: 1 Cor 15:28



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
        • Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
          • V. Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church
  109: DV 21.
  110: DV 22.
  111: DV 24.
  112: DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8 and St. Jerome, Commentariorum in Isaiam libri xviii prol.: PL 24, 17B.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
  1: DV 2; cf. Col 1:15; I Tim 1:17; Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-15; Bar 3:38 (Vulg.).
  2: Cf. DV 5.
  3: Cf. Rom 1:5; 16:26



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 1 I BELIEVE
          • I. The Obedience of Faith
  4: Heb 11:8; cf. Gen 12:1-4.
  5: Cf. Gen 23:4
  6: Cf. Heb 11:17
  7: Heb 11:1
  8: Rom 4:3; cf. Gen 15:6
  9: Rom 4:11, 18; 4:20; cf. Gen 15:5.
  10: Heb 11:2, 39
  11: Heb 11:40; 12:2
  12: Lk 1:37-38; cf. Gen 18:14
  13: Lk 1:45
  14: Cf. Lk 1:48
  15: Cf. Lk 2:35



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 1 I BELIEVE
          • II. "I Know Whom I Have Believed"
  16: 2 Tim 1:12
  17: Cf. Jer 17:5-6; Pss 40:5; 146:3-4
  18: Mk 1:11; cf. 9:7
  19: Jn 14:1
  20: Jn 1:18.
  21: Jn 6:46; cf. Mt 11:27
  22: I Cor 12:3
  23: I Cor 2:10-11.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 1 I BELIEVE
          • III. The Characteristics of Faith
  24: Mt 16:17; cf. Gal 1:15; Mt 11:25.
  25: DV 5; cf. DS 377; 3010.
  26: Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008.
  27: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 2, 9; cf Dei Filius 3; DS 3010.
  28: Dei Filius: 3 DS 3008.
  29: Dei Filius: 3 DS 3009.
  30: Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008-3010; Cf. Mk 16 20; Heb 2:4
  31: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II 171, 5, obj. 3.
  32: John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro vita sua (London Longman, 1878) 239.
  33: St. Anselm, Prosl. prooem. PL 153 225A.
  34: Eph 1:18
  35: DV 5.
  36: St. Augustine, Sermo 43, 7, 9: PL 38, 257-258.
  37: Dei Filius 4: DS 3017.
  38: GS 36 # 1.
  39: DH 10; cf. CIC, can. 748 # 2.
  40: DH 11.
  41: DH 11; cf. Jn 18:37; 12:32.
  42: Cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:36; 6:40 et al.
  44: 1 Tim 1:18-19
  45: Cf. Mk 9:24; Lk 17:5; 22:32
  46: Gal 5:6; Rom 15:13; cf. Jas 2:14-26
  47: 1 Cor 13:12; I Jn 3:2
  48: St. Basil De Spiritu Sancto 15, 36: PG 32, 132; cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 4, 1.
  49: 2 Cor 5:7.
  50: l Cor 13:12.
  51: Rom 4:18
  52: LG 58; John Paul II, RMat 18.
  53: Heb 12:1-2. Article 2



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 2 WE BELIEVE
          • I. "Lord, Look Upon the Faith of Your Church"
  54: Roman Ritual, Rite of Baptism of Adults.
  55: Faustus of Riez, De Spiritu Sancto 1, 2: PL 62, II.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 2 WE BELIEVE
          • II. The Language of Faith
  56: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 1,2, ad 2.
  57: I Tim 3:15; Jude 3.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"
      • CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
        • Article 2 WE BELIEVE
          • III. Only One Faith
  58: Cf. Eph 4:4-6
  59: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. I, 10, 1-2: PG 7/1, 549-552.
  60: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. I, 10, 1-2: PG 7/1, 552-553.
  61: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 5, 20, I: PG 7/2, 1177.
  62: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 24, I: PG 7/1, 966.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
  1: Cf. Rom 10:9; I Cor 15:3-5, etc.
  2: St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. illum. 5, 12: PG 33, 521-524.
  3: Mt 28:19
  4: Roman Catechism I, 1, 3.
  5: St. Irenaeus, Dem. ap. 100: SCh 62, 170.
  6: Roman Catechism I, I, 4.
  7: Cf. St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. 8: PL 17, 1196.
  8: Cf. DS 1-64.
  9: Cf. DS 75-76.
  10: Cf. DS 525-541; 800-802; 851-861; 1862-1870.
  11: Cf. DS 71-72.
  12: Paul VI, CPG (1968).
  13: St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. 7: PL 17, 1196.
  14: Rom 6:17
  15: St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. I: PL 17, 1193.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
  1: Cf. Is 44:6.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
        • Article 1 "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH"
          • Paragraph 1. I BELIEVE IN GOD
  2: Roman Catechism I, 2, 2.
  3: Roman Catechism I, 2, 2.
  4: Dt 6:45.
  5: Is 45:22-24; cf. Phil 2:10-11.
  6: Mk 12:29-30
  7: Cf. Mk 12:35-37.
  9: EX 3:6
  10: EX 3:13-15
  11: Cf. Is 45:15; Judg 13:18
  12: EX 3:6, 12
  13: Cf. EX 3:5-6
  14: Is 6:5
  15: Lk 5:8
  16: Hos 11:9
  17: I Jn 3:19-20
  18: Cf. Ex 32; 33: 12-17
  19: Ex 33:18-19.
  20: Ex 34:5-6; cf. 34:9
  21: Ex 34:7
  22: Eph 2:4
  23: Jn 8:28 (Greek).
  24: Cf. Is 44:6
  25: Ps 102:26-27
  26: Jas 1:17
  27: Ex 34:6
  28: Ps 138:2; cf. Ps 85:11
  29: I Jn 1:5; 4:8
  30: Ps 119:160
  31: 2 Sam 7:28
  32: Cf. Dt 7:9
  33: Cf Wis 13:1-9.
  34: Cf Ps 115:15; Wis 7:17-21.
  35: Mal 2:6.
  36: Jn 18:37.
  37: I Jn 5:20; cf. Jn 17:3.
  38: Cf. Dt 4:37; 7:8; 10:15.
  39: Cf. Is 43:1-7; Hos 2.
  40: Jn 3:16; cf. Hos 11:1; Is 49:14-15; 62 :4-5; Ezek 16; Hos 11.
  41: Is 54:8.
  42: Is 54: 10; cf. 54:8.
  43: Jer 31:3.
  44: l Jn 4:8, 16
  45: Cf. I Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.
  46: Job 36:26.
  47: St. Joan of Arc.
  48: I Cor 4:7.
  49: Ps 116:12.
  50: Gen 1:26.
  51: St. Nicholas of Flue; cf. Mt 5:29-30; 16:24-26.
  52: St. Teresa of Jesus, Poesias 30 in the Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. III, tr. K[...]



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
        • Article 1 "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH"
          • Paragraph 2. THE FATHER
  53: Mt 28:19.
  54: St. Caesarius of Arles, Sermo 9, Exp. symb.: CCL 103, 47.
  55: Cf. Profession of faith of Pope Vigilius I (552): DS 415.
  56: GCD 43.
  57: GCD 47.
  58: Dei Filius 4: DS 3015.
  59: Cf. Dt 32:6; Mal 2:10.
  60: Ex 4:22.
  61: Cf. 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 68:6.
  62: Cf. Is 66:13; Ps 131:2.
  63: Cf. Ps 27:10; Eph 3:14; Is 49:15.
  64: Mt 11-27.
  65: Jn 1:1; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3.
  66: The English phrases "of one being" and "one in being" translate the Greek word homoousios, wh[...]
  67: Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; cf. DS 150.
  68: Cf. Gen 1:2; Nicene Creed (DS 150); Jn 14:17, 26; 16:13.
  69: Cf. Jn 14:26; 15:26; 16:14.
  70: Cf. Jn 7:39.
  71: Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150.
  72: Council of Toledo VI (638): DS 490.
  73: Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 527.
  74: Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150.
  75: Council of Florence (1439): DS 1300-1301.
  76: Cf. Leo I, Quam laudabiliter (447): DS 284.
  77: Jn 15:26; cf. AG 2.
  78: Council of Florence (1439): DS 1302.
  79: Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331.
  80: Cf. Council of Lyons II(1274): DS 850.
  81: 2 Cor 13:14; cf. I Cor 12:4 - 6; Eph 4:4-6.
  82: Paul VI, CPC # 2.
  83: Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 421.
  84: Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 530:26.
  85: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 804.
  86: Fides Damasi: DS 71.
  87: Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 530:25.
  88: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 804.
  89: Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 528.
  90: Council of Florence (1442): DS 1330.
  91: Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331.
  92: St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 41: PG 36,417.
  93: LH, Hymn for Evening Prayer.
  94: Eph 1:4-5, 9; Rom 8:15, 29.
  95: 2 Tim 1:9-10.
  96: Cf. AG 2-9.
  97: Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331; cf. Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 421.
  98: Council of Constantinople II: DS 421.
  99: Cf. Jn 6:44; Rom 8:14.
  100: Cf. Jn 17:21-23.
  101: Jn 14:23.
  102: Prayer of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
        • Article 1 "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH"
          • Paragraph 3. THE ALMIGHTY
  103: Cf. Gen 1:1; Jn 1:3; Mt 6:9; 2 Cor 12:9; cf. I Cor 1:18.
  104: Ps 115:3.
  105: Gen 49:24; Is 1:24 etc.; Pss 24:8-10; 135 6.
  106: Cf. Jer 27:5; 32:17; Lk 1:37
  107: Wis 11:21; cf. Esth 4:17b; Prov 21:1; Tob 13:2.
  108: Wis 11:23.
  109: 2 Cor 6:18; cf. Mt 6:32.
  110: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 5, ad I.
  111: 1 Cor 1:24-25.
  112: Eph 1:19-22.
  113: Cf. 2 Cor 12:9; Phil 4:13.
  114: Lk 1:37, 49.
  115: Roman Catechism I, 2, 13



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          • Paragraph 4. THE CREATOR
  116: Gen 1:1.
  117: GCD 51.
  118: Gen 1:1; cf. Rom 8:18-23.
  119: Cf. Egeria, Peregrinatio at loca sancta 46: PLS 1, 1047; St. Augustine, De catechizantis rudib[...]
  120: Cf. NA 2.
  121: Wis 7: 17-22.
  122: Cf. Vatican Council I, can. 2 # I: DS 3026.
  123: Heb 11:3.
  124: Cf. Acts 17:24-29; Rom 1:19-20.
  125: Cf. Is 43:1; Pss 115:15; 124:8; 134:3.
  126: Cf. Gen 15:5; Jer 33:19-26.
  127: Cf. Is 44:24; Ps 104; Prov 8:22-31.
  128: Gen 1:1.
  129: Jn 1:1-3.
  130: Col 1:16-17.
  131: Cf. Nicene Creed: DS 150; Hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus; Byzantine Troparion of Pentecost Vespers[...]
  132: Cf. Pss 33 6; 104:30; Gen 1:2-3.
  133: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 2, 30, 9; 4, 20, I: PG 7/1, 822, 1032.
  134: Dei Filius, can. # 5: DS 3025.
  135: St. Bonaventure, In II Sent. I, 2, 2, 1.
  136: St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent. II, prol.
  137: Dei Filius I: DS 3002; cf Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800.
  138: Eph 1:5-6.
  139: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 20, 7: PG 7/1, 1037.
  140: AG 2; cf. I Cor 15:28.
  141: Cf. Wis 9:9.
  142: Rev 4:11.
  143: Pss 104:24; 145:9.
  144: Cf. Dei Filius, cann. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.
  145: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.
  146: St. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolycum II, 4: PG 6, 1052.
  147: 2 Macc 7:22-21, 28.
  148: Cf. Ps 51:12.
  149: Rom 4:17.
  150: Cf. Gen 1:3; 2 Cor 4:6.
  151: Wis 11:20.
  152: Col 1:15, Gen 1:26.
  153: Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3.
  154: Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31.
  155: Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002.
  156: Ps 8:1; cf. Sir 43:28.
  157: Ps 145:3.
  158: Acts 17:28.
  159: St. Augustine, Conf: 3, 6, 11: PL 32, 688.
  160: Wis 11:24-26.
  161: Vatican Council I, Dei Filius I: DS 3003; cf. Wis 8:1; Heb 4:13.
  162: Ps 115:3.
  163: Rev 3:7.
  164: Prov 19:21.
  165: Cf. Is 10:5-15; 45:51; Dt 32:39; Sir 11:14.
  166: Cf. Pss 22; 32; 35; 103; 138; et al.
  167: Mt 6:31-33; cf 10:29-31.
  168: Cf. Gen 1:26-28.
  169: Cf. Col 1:24.
  170: I Cor 3:9; I Th 3:2; Col 4:11.
  171: Phil 2:13; cf. I Cor 12:6.
  172: GS 36 # 3.
  173: Cf. Mt 19:26; Jn 15:5; 14:13
  174: Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 6.
  175: Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG III, 71.
  176: Cf. St. Augustine, De libero arbitrio I, 1, 2: PL 32, 1221- 1223; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II[...]
  177: St. Augustine, Enchiridion II, 3: PL 40, 236.
  178: Gen 45:8; 50:20; cf. Tob 2:12 (Vulgate).
  179: Cf. Rom 5:20.
  180: Rom 8:28.
  181: St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue IV, 138 "On Divine Providence".
  182: The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, ed. Elizabeth F. Rogers (Princeton: Princeton Universit[...]
  183: Julian of Norwich, the Revelations of Divine Love, tr. James Walshe SJ (London: 1961), ch. 32,[...]
  184: I Cor 13:12.
  185: Cf. Gen 2:2.



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          • Paragraph 5. HEAVEN AND EARTH
  186: Pss 115:16; 19:2; Mt 5:16.
  187: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3002 and Paul VI, CPG # 8.
  188: St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103, 1, 15: PL 37, 1348.
  189: Mt 18:10; Ps 103:20.
  190: Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3891; Lk 20:36; Dan 10:9- 12.
  191: Mt 25:31.
  192: Col 1:16.
  193: Heb 1:14.
  194: Cf. Job 38:7 (where angels are called "sons of God"); Gen 3:24; 19; 21: 17; 22:11; Acts 7:53; E[...]
  195: Cf. Lk 1:11, 26.
  196: Heb 1:6.
  197: Lk 2:14.
  198: Cf. Mt 1:20; 2:13,19; 4:11; 26:53; Mk 1:13; Lk 22:43; Macc 10:29-30; 11:8.
  199: Cf. Lk 2:8-14; Mk 16:5-7.
  200: Cf. Acts 1:10-11; Mt 13:41; 24:31; Lk 12:8-9. the angels in the life of the Church
  201: Cf. Acts 5:18-20; 8:26-29; 10:3-8; 12:6-11; 27:23-25.
  202: Cf. Mt 18:10; Lk 16:22; Pss 34:7; 91:10-13; Job 33:23-24; Zech 1:12; Tob 12:12.
  203: St. Basil, Adv. Eunomium III, I: PG 29, 656B.
  204: Gen 1:l - 2:4.
  205: Cf. DV 11.
  206: LG 36 # 2.
  207: Cf. St. Augustine, De Genesi adv. Man 1, 2, 4: PL 34, 175.
  208: GS 36 # 1.
  209: Cf. Ps 145:9.
  210: Lk 12:6-7; Mt 12:12.
  211: Cf. Gen 1-26.
  212: St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Creatures.
  213: Gen 2:1-3.
  214: Cf. Heb 4:3-4; Jer 31:35-37; 33:19-26.
  215: Cf. Gen 1:14.
  216: St. Benedict, Regula 43, 3: PL 66, 675-676.
  217: Cf. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 24, prayer after the first reading.



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          • Paragraph 6. MAN
  218: Gen 1:27.
  219: GS 12 # 3.
  220: GS 24 # 3.
  221: St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue IV, 13 "On Divine Providence": LH, Sunday, week 19, OR.
  222: Cf. GS 12 # 1; 24 # 3; 39 # 1.
  223: St. John Chrysostom, In Gen. sermo 2, 1: PG 54, 587D-588A.
  224: GS 22 # 1.
  225: St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 117: PL 52, 520-521.
  226: Acts 17:26; cf. Tob 8:6.
  227: Pius XII. Enc. Summi pontificatus 3; cf. NA 1.
  228: Pius XII Summi pontificatus 3.
  229: Gen 2:7.
  230: Cf. Mt 16:25-26; Jn 15:13; Acts 2:41
  231: Cf. Mt 10:28; 26:38; Jn 12:27; 2 Macc 6 30.
  232: Cf. I Cor 6:19-20; 15:44-45.
  233: GS 14 # 1; cf. Dan 3:57-80.
  234: Cf. Council of Vienne (1312): DS 902.
  235: Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3896; Paul VI, CPC # 8; Lateran Council V (1513): DS 1440.
  236: 1 Th 5:23.
  237: Cf. Council of Constantinople IV (870): DS 657.
  238: Cf. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius: DS 3005; GS 22 # 5; Humani generis: DS 3891.
  239: Cf. Jer 31:33; Dt 6:5; 29:3; Is 29:13; Ezek 36:26; Mt 6:21; Lk 8:15; Rom 5:5.
  240: Cf. Gen 2:7, 22.
  241: Cf. Is 49:14-15; 66: 13; Ps 131:2-3; ]Hos 11:1-4; Jer 3:4- 19.
  242: Gen 2:18.
  243: ]Gen 2:19-20.
  244: Gen 2:23
  245: Gen 2:24
  246: Gen 1:28.
  247: Cf. GS 50 # 1.
  248: Gen 1:28.
  249: Wis 11:24.
  250: Cf. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511.
  251: Cf. LG 2.
  252: Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:16, 19.
  253: Cf. Gen 2:25.
  254: Cf. I Jn 2:16.
  255: Cf. Gen 2:8.
  256: Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19



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          • Paragraph 7. THE FALL
  257: St. Augustine, Conf. 7, 7, 11: PL 32, 739.
  258: 2 Th 2:7; I Tim 3:16.
  259: Cf. Rom 5:20.
  260: Cf. Lk 11:21-22; Jn 16:11; I Jn 3:8.
  261: Cf. Rom 5:12-21.
  262: Jn 16:8.
  263: Cf. I Cor 2:16.
  264: Cf. GS 13 # 1.
  265: Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1513; Pius XII: DS 3897; Paul VI: AAS 58 (1966), 654.
  266: Cf. Gen 3:1-5; Wis 2:24.
  267: Cf Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9.
  268: Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800.
  269: Cf. 2 Pt 2:4.
  270: Gen 3:5.
  271: I Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44.
  272: St. John Damascene, Defide orth. 2, 4: PG 94, 877.
  273: Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11.
  274: I Jn 3:8.
  275: Rom 8:28.
  276: Gen 2:17.
  277: Gen 2:17.
  278: Cf. Gen 3:1-11 ; Rom 5:19.
  279: St. Maximus the Confessor, Ambigua: PG 91, 1156C; cf. Gen 3:5.
  280: Cf. Rom 3:23.
  281: Cf. Gen 3:5-10.
  282: Cf. Gen 3:7-16.
  283: Cf. Gen 3:17, 19.
  284: Rom 8:21.
  285: Gen 3:19; cf. 2:17.
  286: Cf. Rom 5:12.
  287: Cf. Gen 4:3-15; 6:5, 12; Rom 1:18-32; I Cor 1-6; Rev 2-3.
  288: GS 13 # 1.
  289: Rom 5:12, 19.
  290: Rom 5:18.
  291: Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1512.
  292: Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1514.
  293: St. Thomas Aquinas, De malo 4, I.
  294: Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1511-1512
  295: Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1513.
  296: DS 371-372.
  297: Cf. DS 1510-1516.
  298: Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511; cf. Heb 2:14.
  299: Cf. John Paul II, CA 25.
  300: Jn 1:29.
  301: Cf. John Paul II, RP 16.
  302: I Jn 5:19; cf. I Pt 5:8.
  303: GS 37 3 2.
  304: Cf. Gen 3:9, 15.
  305: Cf. I Cor 15:21-22, 45; Phil 2:8; Rom 5:19-20.
  306: Cf. Pius IXs Ineffabilis Deus: DS 2803; Council of Trent: DS 1573.
  307: St. Leo the Great, Sermo 73, 4: PL 54, 396.
  308: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, I, 3, ad 3; cf. Rom 5:20.



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  1: Gal 4:4-5.
  2: Mk 1:1.
  3: Mk 1:11; cf. Lk 1:5, 68.
  4: Jn 13:3.
  5: Jn 3:13; 6:33.
  6: 1 Jn 4:2.
  7: Jn 1:14,16.
  8: Mt 16:16.
  9: Cf. Mt 16:18; St. Leo the Great, Sermo 4 3: PL 54,150 - 152; 51,1: PL 54, 309B; 62, 2: PL 54, 350[...]
  10: Eph 3:8.
  11: Acts 4:20.
  12: 1 Jn 1:1-4.
  13: CT 5.
  14: CT 5.
  15: CT 5.
  16: CT 6; cf. Jn 7:16.
  17: Phil 3:8-11.



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        • ARTICLE 2 "AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD"
          • I. Jesus
  18: Cf. Lk 1:31.
  19: Mt 1:21; cf. 2:7.
  20: Dt 5:6.
  21: Cf. Ps 51:4, 12.
  22: Cf. Ps 79:9.
  23: Cf. Jn 3:18; Acts 2:21; 5:41; 3 Jn 7; Rom 10:6-13.
  24: Acts 4:12; cf. 9:14; Jas 2:7.
  25: Cf. Ex 25:22; Lev 16:2,15-16; Num 7:89; Sir 50:20; Heb 9:5,7.
  26: Rom 3:25; 2 Cor 5:19.
  27: Phil 2:9-10; cf. Jn 12:28.
  28: Cf. Acts 16:16-18; 19:13-16; Mk 16:17; Jn 15:16.



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        • ARTICLE 2 "AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD"
          • II. Christ
  29: Cf. Ex 29:7; Lev 8:12; 1 Sam 9:16; 10:1; 16:1, 12-13; I Kings 1:39; 19:16.
  30: Cf. Ps 2:2; Acts 4:26-27.
  31: Cf. Is 11:2; 61:1; Zech 4:14; 6:13; Lk 4:16-21.
  32: Lk 2:11.
  33: Jn 10:36; cf. Lk 1:35.
  34: Mt 1:20; cf. 1:16; Rom 1:1; 2 Tim 2:8; Rev 22:16.
  35: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3,18,3: PG 7/1, 934.
  36: Acts 10:38; Jn 1:31.
  37: Mk 1:24; Jn 6:69; Acts 3:14.
  38: Cf Mt 2:2; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30; 21:9.15.
  39: Cf. Jn 4:25-26; 6:15; 11:27; Mt 22:41-46; Lk 24:21.
  40: Cf. Mt 16:16-23.
  41: Jn 3:13; Mt 20:28; cf. Jn 6:62; Dan 7:13; Is 53:10-12.
  42: Cf. Jn 19:19-22; Lk 23:39-43.
  43: Acts 2:36.



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        • ARTICLE 2 "AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD"
          • III. The Only Son of God
  44: Cf. Dt 14:1; (LXX) 32:8; Job 1:6; Ex 4:22; Hos 2:1; 11:1; Jer 3:19; Sir 36:11; Wis 18:13; 2 Sam [...]
  45: Cf. I Chr 17:13; Ps 2:7; Mt 27:54; Lk 23:47.
  46: Mt 16:16-17.
  47: Gal 1:15-16.
  48: Acts 9:20.
  49: Cf. I Th 1:10; Jn 20:31; Mt 16:18.
  50: Lk 22:70; cf. Mt 26:64; Mk 14:61-62.
  51: Cf. Mt 11:27; 21:34-38; 24:36.
  52: Mt 5:48; 6:8-9; 7:21; Lk 11:13; Jn 20:17.
  53: Cf. Mt 3:17; cf. 17:5.
  54: Jn 3:16; cf. 10:36.
  55: Jn 3:18.
  56: Mk 15:39.
  57: Rom 1:3; cf. Acts 13:33.
  58: Jn 1:14.



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        • ARTICLE 2 "AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD"
          • IV. Lord
  59: Cf. Ex 3:14.
  60: Cf. I Cor 2:8.
  61: Cf. Mt 22:41-46; cf. Acts 2:34-36; Heb 1:13; Jn 13:13.
  62: Cf Mt 8:2; 14:30; 15:22; et al.
  63: Cf. Lk 1:43; 2:11.
  64: Jn 20:28, 21:7.
  65: Cf. Acts 2:34 - 36; Rom 9:5; Titus 2:13; Rev 5:13; Phil 2:6.
  66: Cf. Rom 10:9; I Cor 12:3; Phil 2:9-11.
  67: Cf. Rev 11:15; Mk 12:17; Acts 5:29.
  68: GS 10 # 3; Cf. 45 # 2.
  69: I Cor 16:22; Rev 22:20.



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      • CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
        • Article 3 "HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY"
          • Paragraph 1. THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN
  70: I Jn 4:10; 4:14; 3:5.
  71: St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech 15: PG 45, 48B.
  72: I Jn 4:9.
  73: Jn 3:16.
  74: Mt 11:29; Jn 14:6.
  75: Mk 9:7; cf. Dt 6:4-5.
  76: Jn 15:12.
  77: Cf. Mk 8:34.
  78: 2 Pt 1:4.
  79: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939.
  80: St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.
  81: St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.
  82: Jn 1:14.
  83: Phil 2:5-8; cf. LH, Saturday, Canticle at Evening Prayer.
  84: ]Heb 10:5-7, citing Ps 40:6-8 (7-9 LXX).
  85: I Jn 4:2.
  86: 1 Tim 3:16.
  87: Cf. I Jn 4:2-3; 2 Jn 7.
  88: Council of Nicaea I (325): DS 130, 126.
  89: Council of Ephesus (431): DS 250.
  90: Council of Ephesus: DS 251.
  91: Council of Chalcedon (451): DS 301; cf. Heb 4:15.
  92: Council of Chalcedon: DS 302.
  93: Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 424.
  94: Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 432; cf. DS 424; Council of Ephesus, DS 255.
  95: LH, 1 January, Antiphon for Morning Prayer; cf. St. Leo the Great, Sermo in nat. Dom. 1, 2; PL[...]
  96: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Troparion O monogenes.
  97: GS 22 # 2.
  98: Cf. Jn 14:9-10.
  99: GS 22 # 2.
  100: Cf. Damasus 1: DS 149.
  101: Lk 2:52.
  102: Cf. Mk 6 38; 8 27; Jn 11:34; etc.
  103: Phil 2:7.
  104: Cf. St. Gregory the Great, "Sicut aqua" ad Eulogium, Epist. Lib. 10, 39 PL 77, 1097 Aff.; DS 4[...]
  105: St. Maximus the Confessor, Qu. et dub. 66 PG 90, 840A.
  106: Cf. Mk 14:36; Mt 11:27; Jn 1:18; 8:55; etc.
  107: Cf. Mk 2:8; Jn 2 25; 6:61; etc.
  108: Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30.
  109: Cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7.
  110: Cf. Council of Constantinople III (681): DS 556-559.
  111: Council of Constantinople III: DS 556.
  112: Cf. Council of the Lateran (649): DS 504.
  113: Cf. Cal 3:1; cf. Council of Nicaea II (787): DS 600-603.
  114: Roman Missal, Preface of Christmas I.
  115: Council of Nicaea II: DS 601.
  116: Cal 2:20.
  117: Cf. Jn 19:34.
  118: Pius XII, Enc. Haurietis aquas (1956): DS 3924; cf. DS 3812.



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        • Article 3 "HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY"
          • Paragraph 2. "CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY"
  119: Gal 4:4.
  120: Col 2:9.
  121: Lk 1:34-35 (Greek).
  122: Cf. Jn 16:14-15.
  123: Cf. Mt 1:20; 2:1-12; Lk 1:35; 2:8-20; Jn 1:3 1-34; 2:11.
  124: Acts 10:38.
  125: Gal 4:4; Heb 10:5.
  126: Lk 1:26-27.
  127: LG 56; cf. LG 61.
  128: Cf. Gen 3:15, 20.
  129: Cf. Gen 18:10-14; 21:1-2.
  130: Cf. I Cor 1:17; I Sam 1.
  131: LG 55.
  132: LG 56.
  133: Lk 1:28.
  134: Lk 1:28.
  135: Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (1854): DS 2803.
  136: LG 53, 56.
  137: Cf. Eph 1:3-4.
  138: LG 56.
  139: Lk 1:28-38; cf. Rom 1:5.
  140: Cf. LG 56.
  141: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.
  142: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.
  143: LC 56; St. Epiphanius, Panarion 2, 78, 18: PG 42, 728CD-729AB; St. Jerome, Ep. 22, 21: PL 22, [...]
  144: Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.
  145: Council of Ephesus (431): DS 251.
  146: Council of the Lateran (649): DS 503; cf. DS 10-64.
  147: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Smyrn 1-2: Apostolic Fathers, ed. J. B. Lightfoot (London: Macmill[...]
  148: Mt 1 18-25; Lk 1:26-38.
  149: Mt 1:20.
  150: Is 7:14 (LXX), quoted in Mt 1:23 (Greek).
  151: Cf. St. Justin, Dial. 99, 7: PG 6, 708-709; Origen, Contra Celsum 1, 32, 69: PG 11, 720-721; et al[...]
  152: Dei Filius 4: DS 3016.
  153: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 19, 1: AF 11/2 76-80: cf. I Cor 2:8.
  154: Cf. DS 291; 294; 427; 442; 503; 571; 1880.
  155: LG 57.
  156: Cf. LG 52.
  157: Cf. Mk 3:31-35; 6:3; I Cor 9:5; Gal 1:19.
  158: Mt 13:55; 28:1; cf. Mt 27:56.
  159: Cf. Gen 13:8; 14:16; 29:15; etc.
  160: LG 63; cf. Jn 19:26-27; Rom 8:29; Rev 12:17.
  161: Council of Friuli (796): DS 619; cf. Lk 2:48-49.
  162: I Cor 15:45, 47.
  163: Jn 3:34.
  164: Jn 1:16; cf. Col 1:18.
  165: Lk 1:34; cf. Jn 3:9[ETML:XC:/].
  166: Jn 1:13.
  167: Cf. 2 Cor 11:2.
  168: LG 63; cf. l Cor 7:34-35.
  169: St. Augustine, De virg. 3: PL 40, 398.
  170: LG 64; cf. 63.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
        • Article 3 "HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY"
          • Paragraph 3. THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST'S LIFE
  171:
  172: Cf. Jn 20:30.
  173: Jn 20:31.
  174: Cf. Mk 1:1; Jn 21:24.
  175: Cf Lk 2:7; Mt 27: 48; Jn 20:7.
  176: Col 2:9.
  177: Jn 14:9; Lk 9:35; cf. Mt 17:5; Mk 9:7, "my beloved Son".
  178: Jn 4:9.
  179: Cf. Eph 1:7; Col 1:13-14; 2 Pt 1:18-19.
  180: Cf. 2 Cor 8:9.
  181: Cf. Lk 2:51.
  182: Cf. Jn 15:3.
  183: Mt 8:17; cf. Is 53:4.
  184: Cf. Rom 4:25.
  185: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 18, 1: PG 7/1, 932.
  186: St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 18, 7: PG 7/1, 937; cf. 2, 22, 4.
  187: John Paul II, RH II.
  188: I Cor 15:3; Rom 4:25.
  189: I Jn 2:1 Heb 7:25.
  190: Heb 9:24.
  191: GS 38; cf. Rom 1 5:5; Phil 2:5.
  192: Cf. Jn 13:15; Lk 11:1; Mt 5:11-12.
  193: GS 22 # 2.
  194: St. John Eudes: LH, week 33, Friday, OR.
  195: Heb 9:15.
  196: Cf. Acts 13:24; Mt 3:3.
  197: Lk 1:76; cf. 7:26; Mt 11:13.
  198: Jn 1 29; cf. Acts 1:22; Lk 1:41; 16:16; Jn 3:29.
  199: Lk 1:17; cf. Mk 6:17-29.
  200: Cf Rev 22:17.
  201: Jn 3:30.
  202: Cf. Lk 2:61.
  203: Cf. Lk 2:8-20.
  204: Kontakion of Romanos the Melodist.
  205: Cf. Mt 18:3-4.
  206: Jn 3 7; 1:13; 1:12; cf. Mt 23:12.
  207: Cf. Gal 4:19.
  208: LH, 1 January, Antiphon I of Evening Prayer.
  209: Cf. Lk 2:21.
  210: Cf. Gal 4:4.
  211: Cf. Col 2:11-13.
  212: Mt 2:1; cf. LH, Epiphany, Evening Prayer II, Antiphon at the Canticle of Mary.
  213: Cf Mt 2:2; Num 24:17-19; Rev 22:16.
  214: Cf Jn 4 22; Mt 2:4-6.
  215: St. Leo the Great, Sermo 3 in epiphania Domini 1-3, 5: PL 54, 242; LH, Epiphany, OR; Roman Mis[...]
  216: Cf. Lk 2:22-39; EX 13:2, 12-13.
  217: Cf. Mt 2:13-18.
  218: Jn 1:11.
  219: Cf. Jn 15:20.
  220: Cf. Mt 2:15; Hos 11:1.
  221: Cf. Gal 4:4.
  222: Lk 2:51-52.
  223: Lk 22:42.
  224: Cf. Rom 5:19.
  225: Paul VI at Nazareth, 5 January 1964: LH, Feast of the Holy Family, OR.
  226: Cf. Lk 2:41-52.
  227: Lk 2:49 alt.
  228: Cf. Lk 3:23; Acts 1:22.
  229: Lk 3:3.
  230: Cf. Lk 3:10-14; Mt 3:7; 21:32.
  231: Mt 3:13-17.
  232: Jn 1:29; cf. Is 53:12.
  233: Cf. Mk 10:38; Lk 12:50.
  234: Mt 3:15; cf. 26:39.
  235: Cf. Lk 3:22; Is 42:1.
  236: Jn 1:32-33; cf. Is 11:2.
  237: Mt 3:16.
  238: Rom 6:4.
  239: St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 9: PG 36, 369.
  240: St. Hilary of Poitiers, In Matth. 2, 5: PL 9, 927.
  241: Cf. Mk 1:12-13.
  242: Lk 4:13.
  243: Cf. Ps 95:10; Mk 3:27
  244: Cf Mt 16:2 1-23.
  245: Heb 4:15.
  246: Mk 1:14-15.
  247: LG 3.
  248: LG 2.
  249: LG 5.
  250: Jn 12:32; cf. LG 3.
  251: Cf. Mt 8:11 10:5-7; 28:19.
  252: LC 5; cf. Mk 4:14, 26-29; Lk 12:32.
  253: Lk 4:18; cf. 7:22.
  254: Mt 5:3.
  255: Cf. Mt 11:25.
  256: Cf. Mt 21:18; Mk 2:23-26; Jn 4:6 1; 19:28; Lk 9:58.
  257: Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
  258: Mk 2:17; cf. l Tim 1:15.
  259: Lk 15:7; cf. 7:11-32.
  260: Mt 26:28.
  261: Cf. Mk 4:33-34.
  262: Cf. Mt 13:44-45; 22:1-14.
  263: Cf. Mt 21:28-32.
  264: Cf. Mt 13:3-9.
  265: Cf. Mt 25:14-30.
  266: Mt 13:11.
  267: Mk 4:11; cf. Mt 13:10-15.
  268: Acts 2:22; cf. Lk 7:18-23.
  269: cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 38.
  270: Cf. Mk 5:25-34; 10:52; etc.
  271: Cf. Jn 10:31-38.
  272: Mt 11:6.
  273: Cf. Jn 11:47-48; Mk 3:22.
  274: Cf. Jn 6:5-15; Lk 19:8; Mt 11:5.
  275: Cf. Lk 12 13-14; Jn 18:36.
  276: Cf. Jn 8:34-36.
  277: Mt 12:26, 28.
  278: Jn 12:31; cf. Lk 8:26-39.
  279: LH, Lent, Holy Week, Evening Prayer, Hymn Vexilla Regis: Regnavit a ligno Deus.
  280: Cf. Mk 3:13-19.
  281: Lk 9:2.
  282: Lk 22:29-30.
  283: Cf Mk 3:16; 9:2; Lk 24:34; I Cor 15:5.
  284: Mt 16:18.
  285: I Pt 2:4.
  286: Cf. Lk 22:32.
  287: Mt 16:19.
  288: Jn 21:15-17; Cf. 10:11.
  289: Cf. Mt 18:18.
  290: Mt 16:21.
  291: Cf. Mt 16:22-23; 17:23; Lk 9:45.
  292: Cf. Mt 17:1-8 and parallels; 2 Pt 1:16-18.
  293: Lk 9:31.
  294: Lk 9:35.
  295: Lk 24:26.
  296: Cf. Lk 24:27.
  297: Cf. Is 42:1.
  298: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 45, 4, ad 2.
  299: Byzantine Liturgy, Feast of the Transfiguration, Kontakion.
  300: St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 45, 4, ad 2.
  301: Phil 3:21.
  302: Acts 14:22.
  303: St. Augustine, Sermo 78, 6: PL 38, 492-493; cf. Lk 9:33.
  304: Lk 9:51; cf. Jn 13:1.
  305: Lk 13:33; cf. Mk 8:31-33; 9:31-32; 10:32-34.
  306: Mt 23:37.
  307: Lk 19:41-42.
  308: Lk 1:32; cf. Mt 21:1-11; Jn 6:15.
  309: Ps 24:7-10; Zech 9:9.
  310: Cf. Jn 18:37.
  311: Cf. Mt 21:15-16; cf. Ps 8:3; Lk 19:38; 2:14.
  312: Cf. Ps 118:26.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
        • Article 4 "JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED"
  313: Heb 9:26.
  314: Lk 24:26-27, 44-45.
  315: Mk 8:31; Mt 20:19.
  316: Cf. DV 19.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
        • Article 4 "JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED"
          • Paragraph 1. JESUS AND ISRAEL
  317: Cf. Mk 3:6; 14:1.
  318: Cf. Mt 12:24; Mk 2:7, 14-17; 3:1-6; 7:14-23.
  319: Cf. Mk 3:22; Jn 8:48; 10:20.
  320: Cf. Mk 2:7; Jn 5:18; 7:12, 52; 8:59; 10:31, 33.
  321: Lk 2:34.
  322: Cf. Jn 1:19; 2:18; 5:10; 7:13; 9:22; 18:12; 19:38; 20:19.
  323: Jn 7:48-49.
  324: Cf Lk 13:31.
  325: Cf. Lk 7:36; 14:1.
  326: Cf. Mt 22:23-34; Lk 20:39.
  327: Cf. Mt 6:18.
  328: Cf. Mk 12:28-34.
  329: Mt 5:17-19.
  330: Mt 5:19.
  331: Cf. Jn 8:46.
  332: Cf. Jn 7:19; Acts 13:38-41; 15:10.
  333: Jas 2:10; cf. Gal 3:10; 5:3.
  334: Cf. Rom 10:2.
  335: Cf. Mt 15:31; Lk 11:39-54.
  336: Cf Is 53:11; Heb 9:15.
  337: Cf. Gal 4:4.
  338: Jer 31:33; Is 42:3, 6.
  339: Gal 3:13; 3:10; Heb 9:15.
  340: Cf Jn 11:28; 3:2; Mt 22:23-24, 34-36.
  341: Cf. Mt 12:5; 9:12; Mk 2:23-27; Lk 6:6-g; Jn 7:22-23.
  342: Mt 7:28-29.
  343: Cf. Mt 5:1.
  344: Mt 5:33-34.
  345: Mk 7:13; cf. 3:8.
  346: Mk 7:18-21; cf. Gal 3:24.
  347: Cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 37-38; 12:37.
  348: Cf. Num 28 9; Mt 12:5; Mk 2:25-27; Lk 13:15-16; 14:3-4; Jn 7:22-24.
  349: Lk 2:22-39.
  350: Cf. Lk 2 46-49.
  351: Cf. Lk 2 41.
  352: Cf. Jn 2 13-14; 5:1, 14; 7:1, 10, 14; 8 2; 10:22-23.
  353: Cf. Mt 21:13.
  354: Jn 2:16-17; cf. Ps 69:10.
  355: Cf. Acts 2:46; 3:1; 5:20, 21; etc.
  356: Cf. Mt 24:1-2.
  357: Cf. Mt 24:3; Lk 13:35.
  358: Cf Mk 14:57-58; Mt 27 39-40.
  359: Cf. Mt 8:4; 16:18; 17:24-27; Lk 17:14; Jn 4:22; 18:20.
  360: Cf. Jn 2:21; Mt 12:6.
  361: Cf. Jn 2:18-22.
  362: Jn 4:21; cf. 4:23-24; Mt 27:5; Heb 9:11; Rev 21:22.
  363: Cf. Lk 2:34; 20:17-18; Ps 118:22.
  364: Cf. Lk 5:30; 7:36; 11:37; 14:1.
  365: Lk 18:9; 5:32; cf. Jn 7:49; 9:34.
  366: Cf. Jn 8:33-36; 9:40-41.
  367: Cf. Mt 9:13; Hos 6:6.
  368: Cf. Lk 15:1-2, 22-32.
  369: Mk 2:7.
  370: Cf. Jn 5:18; 10:33; 17:6,26.
  371: Cf. Mt 12:6, 30, 36, 37, 41-42.
  372: Jn 8:58; 10:30.
  373: Jn 10:36-38.
  374: Cf. Jn 3:7; 6:44.
  375: Cf. Is 53:1.
  376: Cf. Mk 3:6; Mt 26:64-66.
  377: Cf. Lk 23 34; Acts 3: 17-18; Mk 3:5; Rom 11:25, 20.



  • PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
    • SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
      • CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
        • Article 4 "JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED"
          • Paragraph 2. JESUS DIED CRUCIFIED
  378: Jn 12:42; cf. 7:50; 9:16-17; 10:19-21; 19:38-39.
  379: Acts 6:7; 15:5; 21:20.
  380: cf. Jn 9:16; 10:19.
  381: Cf Jn 9:22.
  382: Jn 11:48-50.
  383: Cf. Mt 26:66; Jn 18:31; Lk 23:2, 19.
  384: Cf. Jn 19:12, 15, 21.
  385: Cf. Mk 15:11; Acts 2:23, 36; 3:13-14; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; 10:39; 13:27-28; I Th 2:14-15.
  386: Cf. Lk 23:34; Acts 3:17.
  387: Mt 27:25; cf. Acts 5:28; 18:6.
  388: NA 4.
  389: Roman Catechism I, 5, 11; cf. Heb 12:3.
  390: Cf. Mt 25:45; Acts 9:4-5.
  391: Roman Catechism I, 5, 11; cf. Heb 6:6; 1 Cor 2:8.
  392: St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitio 5, 3.
  393: Acts 2:23.
  394: Cf. Acts 3:13.
  395: Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2.
  396: Cf. Mt 26:54; Jn 18:36; 19:11; Acts 3:17-18.
  397: Is 53:11; cf. 53:12; Jn 8 34-36; Acts 3:14.
  398: 1 Cor 15:3; cf. also Acts 3:18; 7:52; 13:29; 26:22-23.
  399: Cf. Is 53:7-8 and Acts 8:32-35.
  400: Cf. Mt 20:28.
  401: Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-45.
  402: I Pt 1:18-20.
  403: Cf. Rom 5:12; I Cor 15:56.
  404: 2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3.
  405: Cf. Jn 8:46.
  406: Mk 15:34; Ps 22:2; cf. Jn 8:29.
  407: Rom 8:32; 5:10.
  408: I John 4:10; 4:19.
  409: Rom 5:8.
  410: Mt 18:14.
  411: Mt 20:28; cf. Rom 5:18-19.
  412: Council of Quiercy (853): DS 624; cf. 2 Cor 5:15; I Jn 2:2.
  413: Jn 6:38.
  414: Heb 10:5-10.
  415: Jn 4:34.
  416: 1 Jn 2:2.
  417: Jn 10:17; 14:31.
  418: Cf Lk 12:50; 22:15; Mt 16:21-23.
  419: Jn 12:27.
  420: Jn 18:11.
  421: Jn 19:30; 19:28.
  422: Jn 1:29; cf. Lk 3:21; Mt 3:14-15; Jn 1:36.
  423: Is 53:7, 12; cf. Jer 11:19; Ex 12:3-14; Jn 19:36; 1 Cor 5:7.
  424: Mk 10:45.
  425: Jn 13:1; 15:13.