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1501 2, 1, 2, 1204 | Christ, that the multitude of God's children has access to
1502 2, 2, 1, 1213 | sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ,
1503 2, 2, 1, 1215 | can enter the kingdom of God."7~
1504 2, 2, 1, 1216 | light" himself:9~Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent
1505 2, 2, 1, 1216 | our guard and the sign of God's Lordship.10~
1506 2, 2, 1, 1218 | oveshadowed" by the Spirit of God:12~At the very dawn of creation~
1507 2, 2, 1, 1222 | River by which the People of God received the gift of the
1508 2, 2, 1, 1225 | to enter the Kingdom of God.~See where you are baptized,
1509 2, 2, 1, 1228 | imperishable seed" of the Word of God produces its life-giving
1510 2, 2, 1, 1236 | proclamation of the Word of God enlightens the candidates
1511 2, 2, 1, 1238 | Vigil). the Church asks God that through his Son the
1512 2, 2, 1, 1240 | priest says: "The servant of God, N., is baptized in the
1513 2, 2, 1, 1243 | the only Son, a child of God entitled to say the prayer
1514 2, 2, 1, 1243 | prayer of the children of God: "Our Father."~
1515 2, 2, 1, 1244 | Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding
1516 2, 2, 1, 1247 | catechumen to receive the gift of God in Baptism, Confirmation,
1517 2, 2, 1, 1248 | charity of the People of God by successive sacred rites."47~
1518 2, 2, 1, 1250 | freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.50
1519 2, 2, 1, 1250 | grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer
1520 2, 2, 1, 1251 | nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them.52~
1521 2, 2, 1, 1253 | asked: "What do you ask of God's Church?" the response
1522 2, 2, 1, 1256 | universal saving will of God and the necessity of Baptism
1523 2, 2, 1, 1257 | of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the
1524 2, 2, 1, 1260 | partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery."62
1525 2, 2, 1, 1260 | truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding
1526 2, 2, 1, 1261 | entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral
1527 2, 2, 1, 1261 | Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men
1528 2, 2, 1, 1263 | entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam's sin, nor
1529 2, 2, 1, 1263 | which is separation from God.~
1530 2, 2, 1, 1265 | creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker
1531 2, 2, 1, 1266 | enabling them to believe in God, to hope in him, and to
1532 2, 2, 1, 1267 | is born the one People of God of the New Covenant, which
1533 2, 2, 1, 1268 | priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that [they]
1534 2, 2, 1, 1269 | nourished with the Word of God and to be sustained by the
1535 2, 2, 1, 1270 | 1270 "Reborn as sons of God, [the baptized] must profess
1536 2, 2, 1, 1270 | they have received from God through the Church" and
1537 2, 2, 1, 1270 | activity of the People of God.79~The sacramental bond
1538 2, 2, 1, 1273 | commits Christians to serve God by a vital participation
1539 2, 2, 1, 1274 | of the blessed vision of God - the consummation of faith -
1540 2, 2, 1, 1281 | inspiration of grace, seek God sincerely and strive to
1541 2, 2, 1, 1282 | is a grace and a gift of God that does not presuppose
1542 2, 2, 1, 1283 | Church invites us to trust in God's mercy and to pray for
1543 2, 2, 1, 1286 | the Messiah, the Son of God.91 He was conceived of the
1544 2, 2, 1, 1287 | proclaim "the mighty works of God," and Peter declared this
1545 2, 2, 1, 1289 | that of Christ himself whom God "anointed with the Holy
1546 2, 2, 1, 1296 | marked with a seal: "It is God who establishes us with
1547 2, 2, 1, 1299 | these words:~All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus
1548 2, 2, 1, 1303 | the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you
1549 2, 2, 1, 1303 | what you have received. God the Father has marked you
1550 2, 2, 1, 1315 | had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter
1551 2, 2, 1, 1325 | that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept
1552 2, 2, 1, 1325 | the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the
1553 2, 2, 1, 1326 | anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.137~
1554 2, 2, 1, 1328 | action of thanksgiving to God. the Greek words eucharistein139
1555 2, 2, 1, 1328 | especially during a meal - God's works: creation, redemption,
1556 2, 2, 1, 1332 | so that they may fulfill God's will in their daily lives.~
1557 2, 2, 1, 1334 | the bread of the Word of God;154 their daily bread is
1558 2, 2, 1, 1334 | promised land, the pledge of God's faithfulness to his promises. ~
1559 2, 2, 1, 1339 | fulfilled in the kingdom of God.".... and he took bread,
1560 2, 2, 1, 1344 | the pilgrim People of God advances, "following the
1561 2, 2, 1, 1346 | table both of the Word of God and of the Body of the Lord.171~
1562 2, 2, 1, 1349 | it truly is, the Word of God,173 and to put it into practice,
1563 2, 2, 1, 1352 | sing to the thrice-holy God.~
1564 2, 2, 1, 1359 | whole of creation loved by God is presented to the Father
1565 2, 2, 1, 1359 | thanksgiving for all that God has made good, beautiful,
1566 2, 2, 1, 1360 | expresses her gratitude to God for all his benefits, for
1567 2, 2, 1, 1361 | Church sings the glory of God in the name of all creation.
1568 2, 2, 1, 1363 | mighty works wrought by God for men.182 In the liturgical
1569 2, 2, 1, 1366 | Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to
1570 2, 2, 1, 1366 | all to offer himself to God the Father by his death
1571 2, 2, 1, 1371 | present.... By offering to God our supplications for those
1572 2, 2, 1, 1371 | for them and for us, the God who loves man.193~
1573 2, 2, 1, 1372 | the saints, is offered to God as a universal sacrifice
1574 2, 2, 1, 1373 | is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for
1575 2, 2, 1, 1374 | presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly
1576 2, 2, 1, 1375 | their power and grace are God's. This is my body, he says.
1577 2, 2, 1, 1376 | conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now
1578 2, 2, 1, 1381 | all lost in wonder at the God thou art.~~Seeing, touching,
1579 2, 2, 1, 1381 | shall be believed; ~What God's Son has told me, take
1580 2, 2, 1, 1383 | We entreat you, almighty God,~that by the hands of your
1581 2, 2, 1, 1386 | the same spirit:~O Son of God, bring me into communion
1582 2, 2, 1, 1394 | die to sin and live for God.229~
1583 2, 2, 1, 1397 | take part in this meal.... God freed you from all your
1584 2, 2, 1, 1403 | Passover in the kingdom of God: "I tell you I shall not
1585 2, 2, 1, 1404 | day we shall see you, our God, as you are. We shall become
1586 2, 2, 1, 1408 | proclamation of the Word of God; thanksgiving to God the
1587 2, 2, 1, 1408 | of God; thanksgiving to God the Father for all his benefits,
1588 2, 2, 1, 1414 | or temporal benefits from God.~
1589 2, 2, 2, 1420 | remains "hidden with Christ in God."1 We are still in our "
1590 2, 2, 2, 1420 | This new life as a child of God can be weakened and even
1591 2, 2, 2, 1422 | Penance obtain pardon from God's mercy for the offense
1592 2, 2, 2, 1424 | praise - of the holiness of God and of his mercy toward
1593 2, 2, 2, 1424 | s sacramental absolution God grants the penitent "pardon
1594 2, 2, 2, 1424 | to the sinner the live of God who reconciles: "Be reconciled
1595 2, 2, 2, 1424 | reconciles: "Be reconciled to God."7 He who lives by God's
1596 2, 2, 2, 1424 | to God."7 He who lives by God's merciful love is ready
1597 2, 2, 2, 1425 | and in the Spirit of our God."9 One must appreciate the
1598 2, 2, 2, 1425 | the magnitude of the gift God has given us in the sacraments
1599 2, 2, 2, 1425 | forgiveness of our sins that God will grant us.~
1600 2, 2, 2, 1427 | fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
1601 2, 2, 2, 1428 | to the merciful love of God who loved us first.19~
1602 2, 2, 2, 1431 | return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end
1603 2, 2, 2, 1431 | one's life, with hope in God's mercy and trust in the
1604 2, 2, 2, 1432 | heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart.25
1605 2, 2, 2, 1432 | all a work of the grace of God who makes our hearts return
1606 2, 2, 2, 1432 | that we may be restored!"26 God gives us the strength to
1607 2, 2, 2, 1432 | discovering the greatness of God's love that our heart is
1608 2, 2, 2, 1432 | begins to fear offending God by sin and being separated
1609 2, 2, 2, 1434 | relation to oneself, to God, and to others. Alongside
1610 2, 2, 2, 1436 | which has reconciled us with God. Through the Eucharist those
1611 2, 2, 2, 1439 | of anyone who returns to God and to the bosom of his
1612 2, 2, 2, 1440 | else an offense against God, a rupture of communion
1613 2, 2, 2, 1440 | conversion entails both God's forgiveness and reconciliation
1614 2, 2, 2, 1440 | and Reconciliation.38~Only God forgives sin~
1615 2, 2, 2, 1441 | 1441 Only God forgives sins.39 Since he
1616 2, 2, 2, 1441 | Since he is the Son of God, Jesus says of himself, "
1617 2, 2, 2, 1442 | behalf of Christ" with "God making his appeal" through
1618 2, 2, 2, 1442 | pleading: "Be reconciled to God."43~Reconciliation with
1619 2, 2, 2, 1443 | community of the People of God from which sin had alienated
1620 2, 2, 2, 1443 | an astonishing way both God's forgiveness and the return
1621 2, 2, 2, 1443 | the bosom of the People of God.44~
1622 2, 2, 2, 1445 | excluded from communion with God; whomever you receive anew
1623 2, 2, 2, 1445 | anew into your communion, God will welcome back into his.
1624 2, 2, 2, 1445 | from reconciliation with God.~The sacrament of forgiveness~
1625 2, 2, 2, 1448 | satisfaction; on the other, God's action through the intervention
1626 2, 2, 2, 1449 | ministry of the Church:~God, the Father of mercies,~
1627 2, 2, 2, 1449 | ministry of the Church~may God give you pardon and peace,~
1628 2, 2, 2, 1452 | arises from a love by which God is loved above all else,
1629 2, 2, 2, 1453 | attrition") is also a gift of God, a prompting of the Holy
1630 2, 2, 2, 1454 | the light of the Word of God. the passages best suited
1631 2, 2, 2, 1455 | thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of
1632 2, 2, 2, 1458 | is already working with God. God indicts your sins;
1633 2, 2, 2, 1458 | already working with God. God indicts your sins; if you
1634 2, 2, 2, 1458 | them, you are joined with God. Man and sinner are, so
1635 2, 2, 2, 1458 | hear "man" - this is what God has made; when you hear "
1636 2, 2, 2, 1458 | what you have made, so that God may save what he has made ....
1637 2, 2, 2, 1459 | as his relationships with God and neighbor. Absolution
1638 2, 2, 2, 1462 | brings reconciliation with God, but also with the Church.
1639 2, 2, 2, 1465 | sign and the instrument of God's merciful love for the
1640 2, 2, 2, 1466 | confessor is not the master of God's forgiveness, but its servant.
1641 2, 2, 2, 1468 | consists in restoring us to God's grace and joining us with
1642 2, 2, 2, 1468 | Reconciliation with God is thus the purpose and
1643 2, 2, 2, 1468 | sacrament of Reconciliation with God brings about a true "spiritual
1644 2, 2, 2, 1468 | life of the children of God, of which the most precious
1645 2, 2, 2, 1468 | precious is friendship with God.75~
1646 2, 2, 2, 1469 | this reconciliation with God leads, as it were, to other
1647 2, 2, 2, 1470 | the merciful judgment of God, anticipates in a certain
1648 2, 2, 2, 1471 | indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment
1649 2, 2, 2, 1472 | deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable
1650 2, 2, 2, 1472 | of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following
1651 2, 2, 2, 1473 | restoration of communion with God entail the remission of
1652 2, 2, 2, 1474 | become holy with the help of God's grace is not alone. "The
1653 2, 2, 2, 1474 | alone. "The life of each of God's children is joined in
1654 2, 2, 2, 1476 | Christ's merits have before God. They were offered so that
1655 2, 2, 2, 1477 | pristine in their value before God. In the treasury, too, are
1656 2, 2, 2, 1477 | Obtaining indulgence from God through the Church~
1657 2, 2, 2, 1480 | priest, reading the word of God to illuminate the conscience
1658 2, 2, 2, 1481 | forgiveness: "May the same God, who through the Prophet
1659 2, 2, 2, 1482 | a liturgy of the word of God with readings and a homily,
1660 2, 2, 2, 1484 | reconcile themselves with God and the Church, unless physical
1661 2, 2, 2, 1484 | expressive of reconciliation with God and with the Church.~
1662 2, 2, 2, 1487 | 1487 The sinner wounds God's honor and love, his own
1663 2, 2, 2, 1487 | man called to be a son of God, and the spiritual well-being
1664 2, 2, 2, 1489 | return to communion with God after having lost it through
1665 2, 2, 2, 1489 | process born of the grace of God who is rich in mercy and
1666 2, 2, 2, 1490 | The movement of return to God, called conversion and repentance,
1667 2, 2, 2, 1490 | is nourished by hope in God's mercy.~
1668 2, 2, 2, 1492 | from love of charity for God, it is called "perfect"
1669 2, 2, 2, 1493 | obtain reconciliation with God and with the Church, must
1670 2, 2, 2, 1496 | reconciliation with God by which the penitent recovers
1671 2, 2, 2, 1497 | means of reconciliation with God and with the Church.~
1672 2, 2, 2, 1499 | the good of the People of God by freely uniting themselves
1673 2, 2, 2, 1501 | despair and revolt against God. It can also make a person
1674 2, 2, 2, 1501 | illness provokes a search for God and a return to him.~The
1675 2, 2, 2, 1501 | The sick person before God~
1676 2, 2, 2, 1502 | sickness in the presence of God. It is before God that he
1677 2, 2, 2, 1502 | presence of God. It is before God that he laments his illness,
1678 2, 2, 2, 1502 | his illness, and it is of God, Master of life and death,
1679 2, 2, 2, 1502 | becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates
1680 2, 2, 2, 1502 | and that faithfulness to God according to his law restores
1681 2, 2, 2, 1502 | Finally Isaiah announces that God will usher in a time for
1682 2, 2, 2, 1503 | a resplendent sign that "God has visited his people"103
1683 2, 2, 2, 1503 | and that the Kingdom of God is close at hand. Jesus
1684 2, 2, 2, 1505 | coming of the Kingdom of God. They announced a more radical
1685 2, 2, 2, 1507 | way that Jesus is truly "God who saves."117~
1686 2, 2, 2, 1520 | renews trust and faith in God and strengthens against
1687 2, 2, 2, 1520 | also of the body if such is God's will.135 Furthermore, "
1688 2, 2, 2, 1522 | the good of the People of God."137 By celebrating this
1689 2, 2, 2, 1522 | herself through Christ to God the Father.~
1690 2, 2, 3, 1534 | to build up the People of God.~
1691 2, 2, 3, 1535 | by the word and grace of God."2 On their part, "Christian
1692 2, 2, 3, 1539 | people was constituted by God as "a kingdom of priests
1693 2, 2, 3, 1539 | within the people of Israel, God chose one of the twelve
1694 2, 2, 3, 1539 | for liturgical service; God himself is its inheritance.7
1695 2, 2, 3, 1539 | behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices
1696 2, 2, 3, 1540 | to proclaim the Word of God and to restore communion
1697 2, 2, 3, 1540 | to restore communion with God by sacrifices and prayer,9
1698 2, 2, 3, 1541 | the ordination of bishops:~God the Father of our Lord Jesus
1699 2, 2, 3, 1543 | Church confesses:~Almighty God . . ..~You make the Church,
1700 2, 2, 3, 1544 | the "one mediator between God and men."15 The Christian
1701 2, 2, 3, 1544 | Melchizedek, "priest of God Most High," as a prefiguration
1702 2, 2, 3, 1546 | kingdom, priests for his God and Father."20 The whole
1703 2, 2, 3, 1549 | like the living image of God the Father.27~
1704 2, 2, 3, 1552 | Church when presenting to God the prayer of the Church,
1705 2, 2, 3, 1553 | unity of the Holy Spirit, to God the Father. the whole Body,
1706 2, 2, 3, 1554 | presbyters as the senate of God and the assembly of the
1707 2, 2, 3, 1567 | service of the People of God, constitute, together with
1708 2, 2, 3, 1573 | consecratory prayer asking God for the outpouring of the
1709 2, 2, 3, 1574 | to proclaim the Word of God, of his fidelity to the
1710 2, 2, 3, 1574 | is called to present to God; giving the book of the
1711 2, 2, 3, 1578 | himself; he is called to it by God.69 Anyone who thinks he
1712 2, 2, 3, 1578 | recognizes the signs of God's call to the ordained ministry
1713 2, 2, 3, 1579 | give themselves entirely to God and to men. Celibacy is
1714 2, 2, 3, 1579 | radiantly proclaims the Reign of God.72~
1715 2, 2, 3, 1580 | the sake of the Kingdom of God. In the East as in the West
1716 2, 2, 3, 1587 | go out to meet our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
1717 2, 2, 3, 1588 | dedicated to the People of God, in conjunction with the
1718 2, 2, 3, 1589 | illuminate, draw close to God to bring him close to others,
1719 2, 2, 3, 1589 | where we strive. I know God's greatness and man's weakness,
1720 2, 2, 3, 1589 | creation, restores it in God's image, recreates it for
1721 2, 2, 3, 1590 | to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through
1722 2, 2, 3, 1592 | service for the People of God by teaching (munus docendi),
1723 2, 2, 3, 1597 | prayer of consecration asking God to grant the ordinand the
1724 2, 2, 3, 1599 | celibate for the love of God's kingdom and the service
1725 2, 2, 3 | I. Marriage in God's Plan~
1726 2, 2, 3, 1602 | the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision
1727 2, 2, 3, 1602 | institution and the meaning God has given it, its origin
1728 2, 2, 3, 1603 | its own proper laws.... God himself is the author of
1729 2, 2, 3, 1604 | 1604 God who created man out of love
1730 2, 2, 3, 1604 | the image and likeness of God who is himself love.90 Since
1731 2, 2, 3, 1604 | is himself love.90 Since God created him man and woman,
1732 2, 2, 3, 1604 | unfailing love with which God loves man. It is good, very
1733 2, 2, 3, 1604 | eyes. and this love which God blesses is intended to be
1734 2, 2, 3, 1604 | watching over creation: "and God blessed them, and God said
1735 2, 2, 3, 1604 | and God blessed them, and God said to them: 'Be fruitful
1736 2, 2, 3, 1605 | things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus
1737 2, 2, 3, 1605 | helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom comes our help.93 "
1738 2, 2, 3, 1607 | from sin. As a break with God, the first sin had for its
1739 2, 2, 3, 1608 | the help of the grace that God in his infinite mercy never
1740 2, 2, 3, 1608 | of their lives for which God created them "in the beginning."~
1741 2, 2, 3, 1609 | 1609 In his mercy God has not forsaken sinful
1742 2, 2, 3, 1611 | 1611 Seeing God's covenant with Israel in
1743 2, 2, 3, 1611 | love, a pure reflection of God's love - a love "strong
1744 2, 2, 3, 1612 | nuptial covenant between God and his people Israel had
1745 2, 2, 3, 1612 | covenant in which the Son of God, by becoming incarnate and
1746 2, 2, 3, 1614 | and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined it "
1747 2, 2, 3, 1614 | determined it "what therefore God has joined together, let
1748 2, 2, 3, 1615 | dimension of the Reign of God. It is by following Christ,
1749 2, 2, 3, 1617 | entry into the People of God, is a nuptial mystery; it
1750 2, 2, 3, 1620 | virginity for the Kingdom of God come from the Lord himself.
1751 2, 2, 3, 1624 | blessing and epiclesis asking God's grace and blessing on
1752 2, 2, 3, 1632 | community as the "family of God" is indispensable for the
1753 2, 2, 3, 1639 | one another is sealed by God himself.141 From their covenant
1754 2, 2, 3, 1639 | spouses is integrated into God's covenant with man: "Authentic
1755 2, 2, 3, 1640 | has been established by God himself in such a way that
1756 2, 2, 3, 1640 | a covenant guaranteed by God's fidelity. the Church does
1757 2, 2, 3, 1641 | special gifts in the People of God."145 This grace proper to
1758 2, 2, 3, 1642 | this grace. "Just as of old God encountered his people with
1759 2, 2, 3, 1647 | found in the fidelity of God to his covenant, in that
1760 2, 2, 3, 1648 | proclaim the Good News that God loves us with a definitive
1761 2, 2, 3, 1648 | they can be witnesses to God's faithful love. Spouses
1762 2, 2, 3, 1648 | faithful love. Spouses who with God's grace give this witness,
1763 2, 2, 3, 1649 | husband and wife before God and so are not free to contract
1764 2, 2, 3, 1650 | objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they
1765 2, 2, 3, 1651 | to listen to the Word of God, to attend the Sacrifice
1766 2, 2, 3, 1651 | thus implore, day by day, God's grace.159~The openness
1767 2, 2, 3, 1652 | the parents themselves. God himself said: "It is not
1768 2, 2, 3, 1652 | in his own creative work, God blessed man and woman with
1769 2, 2, 3, 1654 | 1654 Spouses to whom God has not granted children
1770 2, 2, 3, 1655 | other than "the family of God." From the beginning, the
1771 2, 2, 3, 1658 | the Beatitudes, serving God and neighbor in exemplary
1772 2, 2, 3, 1664 | divorce separates what God has joined together; the
1773 2, 2, 3, 1665 | contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They
1774 2, 2, 4, 1670 | of men and the praise of God."174~Various forms of sacramentals~
1775 2, 2, 4, 1671 | Every blessing praises God and prays for his gifts.
1776 2, 2, 4, 1671 | Christians are blessed by God the Father "with every spiritual
1777 2, 2, 4, 1672 | they consecrate persons to God, or reserve objects and
1778 2, 2, 4, 1676 | every person as a child of God, establishes a basic fraternity,
1779 2, 2, 4, 1678 | They include both praise of God for his works and gifts,
1780 2, 2, 4, 1678 | they may be able to use God's gifts according to the
1781 2, 2, 4, 1680 | Passover of the child of God which, through death, leads
1782 2, 2, 4, 1690 | his final "commendation to God" by the Church. It is "the
1783 3, 0, 0, 1691 | and, now that you share in God's own nature, do not return
1784 3, 0, 0, 1691 | light of the Kingdom of God."1~
1785 3, 0, 0, 1692 | confesses the greatness of God's gifts to man in his work
1786 3, 0, 0, 1692 | have become "children of God,"2 "partakers of the divine
1787 3, 0, 0, 1694 | dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus" and so
1788 3, 0, 0, 1694 | strive to be "imitators of God as beloved children, and
1789 3, 0, 0, 1695 | and in the Spirit of our God,"13 "sanctified . . . (and)
1790 3, 0, 0, 1698 | praise, love, and glorify God. You belong to him, as members
1791 3, 1, 1, 1700 | the image and likeness of God (article 1); it is fulfilled
1792 3, 1, 1, 1700 | to the good promised by God and attested by moral conscience (
1793 3, 1, 1 | Article 1~MAN: THE IMAGE OF GOD~
1794 3, 1, 1, 1701 | the image of the invisible God,"3 that man has been created "
1795 3, 1, 1, 1701 | ennobled by the grace of God.4~
1796 3, 1, 1, 1703 | only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake."6
1797 3, 1, 1, 1706 | recognizes the voice of God which urges him "to do what
1798 3, 1, 1, 1706 | fulfilled in the love of God and of neighbor. Living
1799 3, 1, 1, 1709 | Christ becomes a son of God. This filial adoption transforms
1800 3, 1, 1, 1711 | very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal
1801 3, 1, 1, 1716 | heart, for they shall see God. ~Blessed are the peacemakers,
1802 3, 1, 1, 1716 | shall be called sons of God. ~Blessed are those who
1803 3, 1, 1, 1718 | desire is of divine origin: God has placed it in the human
1804 3, 1, 1, 1718 | Since in seeking you, my God, I seek a happy life, let
1805 3, 1, 1, 1718 | draws life from you.14~ ~God alone satisfies.15~
1806 3, 1, 1, 1719 | ultimate end of human acts: God calls us to his own beatitude.
1807 3, 1, 1, 1720 | characterize the beatitude to which God calls man: ~- the coming
1808 3, 1, 1, 1720 | coming of the Kingdom of God;16 ~- the vision of God: "
1809 3, 1, 1, 1720 | God;16 ~- the vision of God: "Blessed are the pure in
1810 3, 1, 1, 1720 | heart, for they shall see God"17 ~- entering into the
1811 3, 1, 1, 1720 | Lord;18 ~- entering into God's rest:19~There we shall
1812 3, 1, 1, 1721 | 1721 God put us in the world to know,
1813 3, 1, 1, 1722 | an entirely free gift of God: whence it is called supernatural,
1814 3, 1, 1, 1722 | heart, for they shall see God."~It is true, because of
1815 3, 1, 1, 1722 | and inexpressible glory of God, that "man shall not see
1816 3, 1, 1, 1722 | grasped. But because of God's love and goodness toward
1817 3, 1, 1, 1722 | for men is possible for God."23~
1818 3, 1, 1, 1723 | and to seek the love of God above all else. It teaches
1819 3, 1, 1, 1723 | in any creature, but in God alone, the source of every
1820 3, 1, 1, 1724 | the Church to the glory of God.25~
1821 3, 1, 1, 1725 | Beatitudes take up and fulfill God's promises from Abraham
1822 3, 1, 1, 1725 | desire for happiness that God has placed in the human
1823 3, 1, 1, 1726 | us the final end to which God calls us: the Kingdom, the
1824 3, 1, 1, 1726 | the Kingdom, the vision of God, participation in the divine
1825 3, 1, 1, 1726 | life, filiation, rest in God.~
1826 3, 1, 1, 1727 | is a gratuitous gift of God. It is supernatural, as
1827 3, 1, 1, 1728 | order to teach us to love God above all things.~
1828 3, 1, 1, 1729 | keeping with the law of God.~
1829 3, 1, 1, 1730 | 1730 God created man a rational being,
1830 3, 1, 1, 1730 | control his own actions. "God willed that man should be '
1831 3, 1, 1, 1730 | rational and therefore like God; he is created with free
1832 3, 1, 1, 1731 | perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.~
1833 3, 1, 1, 1732 | its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility
1834 3, 1, 1, 1738 | created in the image of God, has the natural right to
1835 3, 1, 1, 1739 | freely sinned. By refusing God's plan of love, he deceived
1836 3, 1, 1, 1741 | liberty of the children of God."37~
1837 3, 1, 1, 1742 | the true and the good that God has put in the human heart.
1838 3, 1, 1, 1742 | world:~Almighty and merciful God,~in your goodness take away
1839 3, 1, 1, 1743 | 1743 "God willed that man should be
1840 3, 1, 1, 1744 | acts when directed toward God, the sovereign Good.~
1841 3, 1, 1, 1752 | inspired by the love of God as the ultimate end of all
1842 3, 1, 1, 1770 | sing for joy to the living God."46~
1843 3, 1, 1, 1776 | heart a law inscribed by God.... His conscience is man'
1844 3, 1, 1, 1776 | There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his
1845 3, 1, 1, 1777 | the prudent man can hear God speaking.~
1846 3, 1, 1, 1779 | in everything you do, see God as your witness.51~
1847 3, 1, 1, 1781 | cultivated with the grace of God:~We shall . . . reassure
1848 3, 1, 1, 1781 | our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts,
1849 3, 1, 1, 1785 | of conscience the Word of God is the light for our path,54
1850 3, 1, 1, 1787 | and discern the will of God expressed in divine law.~
1851 3, 1, 1, 1795 | There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his
1852 3, 1, 1, 1802 | 1802 The Word of God is a light for our path.
1853 3, 1, 1, 1803 | virtuous life is to become like God.63~
1854 3, 1, 1, 1807 | will to give their due to God and neighbor. Justice toward
1855 3, 1, 1, 1807 | neighbor. Justice toward God is called the "virtue of
1856 3, 1, 1, 1809 | nothing other than to love God with all one's heart, with
1857 3, 1, 1, 1809 | fortitude). It obeys only (God) (and this is justice),
1858 3, 1, 1, 1810 | elevated by divine grace. With God's help, they forge character
1859 3, 1, 1, 1812 | virtues relate directly to God. They dispose Christians
1860 3, 1, 1, 1812 | have the One and Triune God for their origin, motive,
1861 3, 1, 1, 1813 | virtues. They are infused by God into the souls of the faithful
1862 3, 1, 1, 1814 | virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he
1863 3, 1, 1, 1814 | commits his entire self to God."78 For this reason the
1864 3, 1, 1, 1814 | believer seeks to know and do God's will. "The righteous shall
1865 3, 1, 1, 1818 | aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart
1866 3, 1, 1, 1819 | abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and
1867 3, 1, 1, 1820 | Christ and of his Passion, God keeps us in the "hope that
1868 3, 1, 1, 1821 | glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and
1869 3, 1, 1, 1821 | hope, with the grace of God, to persevere "to the end"93
1870 3, 1, 1, 1821 | obtain the joy of heaven, as God's eternal reward for the
1871 3, 1, 1, 1821 | love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice
1872 3, 1, 1, 1822 | virtue by which we love God above all things for his
1873 3, 1, 1, 1822 | ourselves for the love of God.~
1874 3, 1, 1, 1824 | keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in
1875 3, 1, 1, 1828 | freedom of the children of God. He no longer stands before
1876 3, 1, 1, 1828 | no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear,
1877 3, 1, 1, 1831 | are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God . . . If
1878 3, 1, 1, 1831 | Spirit of God are sons of God . . . If children, then
1879 3, 1, 1, 1831 | children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.111~
1880 3, 1, 1, 1836 | and constant will to give God and neighbor their due.~
1881 3, 1, 1, 1840 | Holy Trinity. They have God for their origin, their
1882 3, 1, 1, 1840 | motive, and their object - God known by faith, God hoped
1883 3, 1, 1, 1840 | object - God known by faith, God hoped in and loved for his
1884 3, 1, 1, 1842 | By faith, we believe in God and believe all that he
1885 3, 1, 1, 1843 | steadfast trust await from God, eternal life and the graces
1886 3, 1, 1, 1844 | 1844 By charity, we love God above all things and our
1887 3, 1, 1, 1844 | as ourselves for love of God. Charity, the form of all
1888 3, 1, 1, 1846 | revelation in Jesus Christ of God's mercy to sinners.113 The
1889 3, 1, 1, 1847 | 1847 "God created us without us: but
1890 3, 1, 1, 1848 | wound before treating it, God, by his Word and by his
1891 3, 1, 1, 1849 | failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a
1892 3, 1, 1, 1850 | Sin is an offense against God: "Against you, you alone,
1893 3, 1, 1, 1850 | Sin sets itself against God's love for us and turns
1894 3, 1, 1, 1850 | disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "
1895 3, 1, 1, 1850 | oneself even to contempt of God."124 In this proud self-exaltation,
1896 3, 1, 1, 1852 | not inherit the Kingdom of God."127~
1897 3, 1, 1, 1853 | to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they
1898 3, 1, 1, 1855 | by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away
1899 3, 1, 1, 1855 | it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end
1900 3, 1, 1, 1856 | necessitates a new initiative of God's mercy and a conversion
1901 3, 1, 1, 1856 | contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury,
1902 3, 1, 1, 1856 | not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless
1903 3, 1, 1, 1859 | act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a
1904 3, 1, 1, 1861 | redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes
1905 3, 1, 1, 1861 | the justice and mercy of God.~
1906 3, 1, 1, 1863 | the will and friendship of God; it does not break the covenant
1907 3, 1, 1, 1863 | break the covenant with God. With God's grace it is
1908 3, 1, 1, 1863 | covenant with God. With God's grace it is humanly reparable. "
1909 3, 1, 1, 1863 | sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently
1910 3, 1, 1, 1864 | no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately
1911 3, 1, 1, 1870 | 1870 "God has consigned all men to
1912 3, 1, 1, 1871 | It is an offense against God. It rises up against God
1913 3, 1, 1, 1871 | God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary
1914 3, 1, 2, 1877 | show forth the image of God and to be transformed into
1915 3, 1, 2, 1878 | called to the same end: God himself. There is a certain
1916 3, 1, 2, 1878 | inseparable from love for God.~
1917 3, 1, 2, 1884 | 1884 God has not willed to reserve
1918 3, 1, 2, 1884 | in social life. the way God acts in governing the world,
1919 3, 1, 2, 1889 | that is, of the love of God and of neighbor. Charity
1920 3, 1, 2, 1896 | and appeal to the grace of God. Charity urges just reforms.
1921 3, 1, 2, 1899 | moral order derives from God: "Let every person be subject
1922 3, 1, 2, 1899 | no authority except from God, and those that exist have
1923 3, 1, 2, 1899 | have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists
1924 3, 1, 2, 1899 | authorities resists what God has appointed, and those
1925 3, 1, 2, 1901 | the order established by God, "the choice of the political
1926 3, 1, 2, 1918 | no authority except from God, and those authorities that
1927 3, 1, 2, 1918 | have been instituted by God" (Rom 13:1).~
1928 3, 1, 2, 1920 | an order established by God" (GS 74 # 3).~
1929 3, 1, 2, 1934 | in the image of the one God and equally endowed with
1930 3, 1, 2, 1935 | eradicated as incompatible with God's design.40~
1931 3, 1, 2, 1937 | These differences belong to God's plan, who wills that each
1932 3, 1, 2, 1946 | among persons belong to God's plan, who wills that we
1933 3, 1, 3 | CHAPTER THREE~GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE~
1934 3, 1, 3, 1949 | in need of salvation from God. Divine help comes to him
1935 3, 1, 3, 1949 | fear and trembling; for God is at work in you, both
1936 3, 1, 3, 1950 | as fatherly instruction, God's pedagogy. It prescribes
1937 3, 1, 3, 1950 | which turn him away from God and his love. It is at once
1938 3, 1, 3, 1951 | providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of
1939 3, 1, 3, 1951 | worthy to receive a law from God: as an animal endowed with
1940 3, 1, 3, 1952 | eternal law - the source, in God, of all law; natural law;
1941 3, 1, 3, 1953 | and bestows the justice of God: "For Christ is the end
1942 3, 1, 3, 1955 | hinges upon the desire for God and submission to him, who
1943 3, 1, 3, 1955 | understanding placed in us by God; through it we know what
1944 3, 1, 3, 1955 | and what we must avoid. God has given this light or
1945 3, 1, 3, 1960 | a foundation prepared by God and in accordance with the
1946 3, 1, 3, 1961 | 1961 God, our Creator and Redeemer,
1947 3, 1, 3, 1962 | fashioned in the image of God; they prohibit what is contrary
1948 3, 1, 3, 1962 | contrary to the love of God and neighbor and prescribe
1949 3, 1, 3, 1962 | conscience of every man to make God's call and ways known to
1950 3, 1, 3, 1962 | protect him against evil:~God wrote on the tables of the
1951 3, 1, 3, 1963 | and faith in the Savior God. It provides a teaching
1952 3, 1, 3, 1963 | for ever, like the Word of God.~
1953 3, 1, 3, 1964 | Holy Spirit, through whom "God's charity has been poured
1954 3, 1, 3, 1965 | hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."19~
1955 3, 1, 3, 1973 | traditional distinction between God's commandments and the evangelical
1956 3, 1, 3, 1974 | the precepts of love of God and neighbor. the counsels
1957 3, 1, 3, 1974 | with the vocation of each:~(God) does not want each person
1958 3, 1, 3, 1974(33)| Francis de Sales, Love of God 8, 6.~
1959 3, 1, 3, 1975 | fatherly instruction by God which prescribes for man
1960 3, 1, 3, 1977 | and bestows the justice of God.~
1961 3, 1, 3, 1978 | law is a participation in God's wisdom and goodness by
1962 3, 1, 3, 1981 | naturally accessible to reason. God has revealed them because
1963 3, 1, 3, 1987 | us "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ"
1964 3, 1, 3, 1987 | life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider
1965 3, 1, 3, 1987 | dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.35~
1966 3, 1, 3, 1988 | vine which is himself:36~(God) gave himself to us through
1967 3, 1, 3, 1989 | grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus
1968 3, 1, 3, 1990 | contradicts the love of God, and purifies his heart
1969 3, 1, 3, 1990 | Justification follows upon God's merciful initiative of
1970 3, 1, 3, 1990 | It reconciles man with God. It frees from the enslavement
1971 3, 1, 3, 1991 | same time the acceptance of God's righteousness through
1972 3, 1, 3, 1992 | victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become
1973 3, 1, 3, 1992 | to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just
1974 3, 1, 3, 1992 | purpose is the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift
1975 3, 1, 3, 1992 | now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart
1976 3, 1, 3, 1992 | it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
1977 3, 1, 3, 1992 | fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his
1978 3, 1, 3, 1992 | is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation
1979 3, 1, 3, 1992 | faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because
1980 3, 1, 3, 1993 | establishes cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom.
1981 3, 1, 3, 1993 | of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conversion,
1982 3, 1, 3, 1993 | preserves his assent:~When God touches man's heart through
1983 3, 1, 3, 1993 | reject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his
1984 3, 1, 3, 1993 | himself toward justice in God's sight.42~
1985 3, 1, 3, 1994 | the most excellent work of God's love made manifest in
1986 3, 1, 3, 1995 | and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification
1987 3, 1, 3, 1996 | comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free
1988 3, 1, 3, 1996 | and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his
1989 3, 1, 3, 1996 | call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers
1990 3, 1, 3, 1997 | participation in the life of God. It introduces us into the
1991 3, 1, 3, 1997 | he can henceforth call God "Father," in union with
1992 3, 1, 3, 1998 | It depends entirely on God's gratuitous initiative,
1993 3, 1, 3, 1999 | the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life,
1994 3, 1, 3, 1999 | has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled
1995 3, 1, 3, 2000 | to enable it to live with God, to act by his love. Habitual
1996 3, 1, 3, 2000 | and act in keeping with God's call, is distinguished
1997 3, 1, 3, 2000 | actual graces which refer to God's interventions, whether
1998 3, 1, 3, 2001 | sanctification through charity. God brings to completion in
1999 3, 1, 3, 2001 | only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy
2000 3, 1, 3, 2001 | we may always live with God: for without him we can
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