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2001 3, 1, 3, 2002 | 2002 God's free initiative demands
2002 3, 1, 3, 2002 | man's free response, for God has created man in his image
2003 3, 1, 3, 2002 | into the communion of love. God immediately touches and
2004 3, 1, 3, 2005 | fruits"57 - reflection on God's blessings in our life
2005 3, 1, 3, 2005 | she knew that she was in God's grace, she replied: 'If
2006 3, 1, 3, 2005 | I am not, may it please God to put me in it; if I am,
2007 3, 1, 3, 2005 | if I am, may it please God to keep me there.'"58~
2008 3, 1, 3, 2007 | 2007 With regard to God, there is no strict right
2009 3, 1, 3, 2007 | the part of man. Between God and us there is an immeasurable
2010 3, 1, 3, 2008 | The merit of man before God in the Christian life arises
2011 3, 1, 3, 2008 | arises from the fact that God has freely chosen to associate
2012 3, 1, 3, 2008 | the fatherly action of God is first on his own initiative,
2013 3, 1, 3, 2008 | first place to the grace of God, then to the faithful. Man'
2014 3, 1, 3, 2008 | moreover, itself is due to God, for his good actions proceed
2015 3, 1, 3, 2009 | merit on us as a result of God's gratuitous justice. This
2016 3, 1, 3, 2009 | is due.... Our merits are God's gifts."62~
2017 3, 1, 3, 2010 | the initiative belongs to God in the order of grace, no
2018 3, 1, 3, 2010 | merited in accordance with God's wisdom. These graces and
2019 3, 1, 3, 2011 | of all our merits before God. Grace, by uniting us to
2020 3, 1, 3, 2011 | consequently their merit before God and before men. the saints
2021 3, 1, 3, 2012 | know that in everything God works for good with those
2022 3, 1, 3, 2013 | themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their
2023 3, 1, 3, 2013 | holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance,
2024 3, 1, 3, 2014 | mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate
2025 3, 1, 3, 2016 | perseverance and the recompense of God their Father for the good
2026 3, 1, 3, 2016 | down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned
2027 3, 1, 3, 2017 | us the righteousness of God. Uniting us by faith and
2028 3, 1, 3, 2018 | grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, and so
2029 3, 1, 3, 2020 | to the righteousness of God, who justifies us. It has
2030 3, 1, 3, 2020 | for its goal the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift
2031 3, 1, 3, 2020 | the most excellent work of God's mercy.~
2032 3, 1, 3, 2021 | 2021 Grace is the help God gives us to respond to our
2033 3, 1, 3, 2023 | gratuitous gift of his life that God makes to us; it is infused
2034 3, 1, 3, 2024 | grace makes us "pleasing to God." Charisms, special graces
2035 3, 1, 3, 2024 | common good of the Church. God also acts through many actual
2036 3, 1, 3, 2025 | 2025 We can have merit in God's sight only because of
2037 3, 1, 3, 2025 | s sight only because of God's free plan to associate
2038 3, 1, 3, 2025 | first place to the grace of God, and secondly to man's collaboration.
2039 3, 1, 3, 2025 | collaboration. Man's merit is due to God.~
2040 3, 1, 3, 2026 | and in accordance with God's gratuitous justice. Charity
2041 3, 1, 3, 2026 | source of merit in us before God.~
2042 3, 1, 3, 2030 | he receives the Word of God containing the teachings
2043 3, 1, 3, 2031 | holy and acceptable to God,"73 within the Body of Christ
2044 3, 1, 3, 2036 | what they should be before God.78~
2045 3, 1, 3, 2037 | 2037 The law of God entrusted to the Church
2046 3, 1, 3, 2038 | according to the Spirit of God.80 Thus the Holy Spirit
2047 3, 1, 3, 2040 | Church grants us the mercy of God which prevails over all
2048 3, 1, 3, 2041 | in the growth in love of God and neighbor:~
2049 3, 1, 3, 2044 | men to the faith and to God."88~
2050 3, 1, 3, 2045 | knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the
2051 3, 1, 3, 2046 | the coming of the Reign of God, "a kingdom of justice,
2052 3, 1, 3, 2050 | preach to the People of God the faith which is to be
2053 3, 1, 3, 2051 | 2-17~I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
2054 3, 1, 3, 2051 | them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,~visiting
2055 3, 1, 3, 2051 | LORD your God am a jealous God,~visiting the iniquity of
2056 3, 1, 3, 2051 | the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will
2057 3, 1, 3, 2051 | sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do
2058 3, 1, 3, 2051 | land which the LORD your God~gives you.~You shall not
2059 3, 1, 3, 2051 | 6-21~I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
2060 3, 1, 3, 2051 | the name of the LORD your God in vain . . .~Observe the
2061 3, 1, 3, 2052 | 1. I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange
2062 3, 1, 3, 2053 | the name of the LORD your God in vain.~
2063 3, 2, 0, 2062 | the necessity to recognize God as the "One there is who
2064 3, 2, 0, 2065 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
2065 3, 2, 0, 2066 | literally "ten words."11 God revealed these "ten words"
2066 3, 2, 0, 2066 | written "with the finger of God,"12 unlike the other commandments~
2067 3, 2, 0, 2066 | pre-eminently the words of God. They are handed on to us
2068 3, 2, 0, 2067 | the context of the Exodus, God's great liberating event
2069 3, 2, 0, 2067 | If you love the LORD your God, by walking in his ways,
2070 3, 2, 0, 2067 | Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with
2071 3, 2, 0, 2068 | words" sum up and proclaim God's law: "These words the
2072 3, 2, 0, 2068 | covenant concluded between God and his people. These "tables
2073 3, 2, 0, 2069 | words" are pronounced by God in the midst of a theophany (“
2074 3, 2, 0, 2069 | fire."21). They belong to God's revelation of himself
2075 3, 2, 0, 2069 | Commandments is the gift of God himself and his holy will.
2076 3, 2, 0, 2069 | In making his will known, God reveals himself to his people.~
2077 3, 2, 0, 2070 | is part of the covenant God sealed with his own. In
2078 3, 2, 0, 2070 | covenant (“The LORD our God made~a covenant with us
2079 3, 2, 0, 2071 | ten words" recalls that God loved~his people first:~
2080 3, 2, 0, 2071 | Decalogue, the first word of God's commandments, bears on
2081 3, 2, 0, 2071 | freedom "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
2082 3, 2, 0, 2072 | implications of~belonging to God through the establishment
2083 3, 2, 0, 2072 | acknowledgement and homage given to God and a worship of thanksgiving.
2084 3, 2, 0, 2072 | cooperation with the plan God pursues in history.~
2085 3, 2, 0, 2073 | covenant and dialogue between God and man are also attested
2086 3, 2, 0, 2073 | Lord.") and addressed by God to another personal subject (“
2087 3, 2, 0, 2073 | subject (“you"). In~all God's commandments, the singular
2088 3, 2, 0, 2073 | designates the recipient. God makes his will known~to
2089 3, 2, 0, 2073 | prescribed love towards God and taught justice towards
2090 3, 2, 0, 2073 | unjust, nor unworthy of God. Thus, through the Decalogue,
2091 3, 2, 0, 2073 | through the Decalogue, God prepared man to become his
2092 3, 2, 0, 2077 | required in the love of God and love of neighbor. the
2093 3, 2, 0, 2077 | first three concern love of God, and the other seven love
2094 3, 2, 0, 2079 | person without~blessing God his Creator. One cannot
2095 3, 2, 0, 2079 | Creator. One cannot adore God without loving all men,
2096 3, 2, 0, 2080 | Ten Commandments belong to God's revelation. At the same
2097 3, 2, 0, 2080 | law:~From the beginning, God had implanted in the heart
2098 3, 2, 0, 2081 | had gone astray.32~We know God's commandments through the~
2099 3, 2, 0, 2082 | fundamental duties towards God and towards his neighbor,
2100 3, 2, 0, 2082 | Commandments are~engraved by God in the human heart.~
2101 3, 2, 0, 2086 | the covenant concluded by God with his people. God's~commandments
2102 3, 2, 0, 2086 | by God with his people. God's~commandments take on their
2103 3, 2, 0, 2091 | 2082 What God commands he makes possible
2104 3, 2, 1 | SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
2105 3, 2, 1, 2083 | summed up man's duties toward God in this saying: "You shall
2106 3, 2, 1, 2083 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
2107 3, 2, 1, 2083 | O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD."2 ~God has
2108 3, 2, 1, 2083 | our God is one LORD."2 ~God has loved us first. the
2109 3, 2, 1, 2083 | first. the love of the One God is recalled in the first
2110 3, 2, 1, 2083 | is called to give to his God.~
2111 3, 2, 1 | COMMANDMENT~I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
2112 3, 2, 1 | shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve."4~
2113 3, 2, 1 | Shall Worship the Lord Your God and Him Only Shall You Serve"~
2114 3, 2, 1, 2084 | 2084 God makes himself known by recalling
2115 3, 2, 1, 2084 | shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him....
2116 3, 2, 1, 2084 | not go after other gods."5 God's first call and just demand
2117 3, 2, 1, 2085 | 2085 The one and true God first reveals his glory
2118 3, 2, 1, 2085 | linked to the revelation of God. Man's vocation is to make
2119 3, 2, 1, 2085 | Man's vocation is to make God manifest by acting in conformity
2120 3, 2, 1, 2085 | the image and likeness of God":~There will never be another
2121 3, 2, 1, 2085 | There will never be another God, Trypho, and there has been
2122 3, 2, 1, 2085 | We do not think that our God is different from yours.
2123 3, 2, 1, 2085 | place our hope in some other god, for there is none, but
2124 3, 2, 1, 2085 | is none, but in the same God as you do: the God of Abraham,
2125 3, 2, 1, 2085 | same God as you do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.7~
2126 3, 2, 1, 2086 | and charity. When we say 'God' we confess a constant,
2127 3, 2, 1, 2086 | on us? Hence the formula God employs in the Scripture
2128 3, 2, 1, 2087 | has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to
2129 3, 2, 1, 2087 | shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation
2130 3, 2, 1, 2087 | deviations.10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and
2131 3, 2, 1, 2088 | refuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church
2132 3, 2, 1, 2090 | 2090 When God reveals Himself and calls
2133 3, 2, 1, 2090 | powers. He must hope that God will give him the capacity
2134 3, 2, 1, 2090 | and the beatific vision of God; it is also the fear of
2135 3, 2, 1, 2090 | also the fear of offending God's love and of incurring
2136 3, 2, 1, 2091 | personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it
2137 3, 2, 1, 2091 | Despair is contrary to God's goodness, to his justice -
2138 3, 2, 1, 2092 | high), or he presumes upon God's almighty power or his
2139 3, 2, 1, 2093 | 2093 Faith in God's love encompasses the call
2140 3, 2, 1, 2093 | commandment enjoins us to love God above everything and all
2141 3, 2, 1, 2094 | 2094 One can sin against God's love in various ways: ~-
2142 3, 2, 1, 2094 | the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine
2143 3, 2, 1, 2094 | divine goodness. ~- hatred of God comes from pride. It is
2144 3, 2, 1, 2094 | It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies,
2145 3, 2, 1, 2095 | charity leads us to render to God what we as creatures owe
2146 3, 2, 1, 2096 | virtue of religion. To adore God is to acknowledge him as
2147 3, 2, 1, 2096 | is to acknowledge him as God, as the Creator and Savior,
2148 3, 2, 1, 2096 | shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you
2149 3, 2, 1, 2097 | 2097 To adore God is to acknowledge, in respect
2150 3, 2, 1, 2097 | would not exist but for God. To adore God is to praise
2151 3, 2, 1, 2097 | exist but for God. To adore God is to praise and exalt him
2152 3, 2, 1, 2097 | The worship of the one God sets man free from turning
2153 3, 2, 1, 2098 | Lifting up the mind toward God is an expression of our
2154 3, 2, 1, 2098 | expression of our adoration of God: prayer of praise and thanksgiving,
2155 3, 2, 1, 2098 | condition for being able to obey God's commandments. " (We) ought
2156 3, 2, 1, 2099 | right to offer sacrifice to God as a sign of adoration and
2157 3, 2, 1, 2099 | action done so as to cling to God in communion of holiness,
2158 3, 2, 1, 2100 | sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...."17
2159 3, 2, 1, 2100 | our lives a sacrifice to God.~Promises and vows~
2160 3, 2, 1, 2101 | called to make promises to God. Baptism and Confirmation,
2161 3, 2, 1, 2101 | Christian may also promise to God this action, that prayer,
2162 3, 2, 1, 2101 | Fidelity to promises made to God is a sign of the respect
2163 3, 2, 1, 2101 | and of love for a faithful God.~
2164 3, 2, 1, 2102 | and free promise made to God concerning a possible and
2165 3, 2, 1, 2102 | Christian dedicates himself to God or promises him some good
2166 3, 2, 1, 2102 | fulfilling his vows he renders to God what has been promised and
2167 3, 2, 1, 2103 | freedom of the children of God, and renouncing their own
2168 3, 2, 1, 2103 | themselves to man for the sake of God, thus going beyond what
2169 3, 2, 1, 2104 | especially in what concerns God and his Church, and to embrace
2170 3, 2, 1, 2105 | 2105 The duty of offering God genuine worship concerns
2171 3, 2, 1, 2111 | worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes
2172 3, 2, 1, 2112 | divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls
2173 3, 2, 1, 2112 | all who trust in them."42 God, however, is the "living
2174 3, 2, 1, 2112 | however, is the "living God"43 who gives life and intervenes
2175 3, 2, 1, 2113 | in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever
2176 3, 2, 1, 2113 | reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or
2177 3, 2, 1, 2113 | says, "You cannot serve God and mammon."44 Many martyrs
2178 3, 2, 1, 2113 | rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible
2179 3, 2, 1, 2113 | incompatible with communion with God.46~
2180 3, 2, 1, 2114 | the adoration of the one God. the commandment to worship
2181 3, 2, 1, 2114 | indestructible notion of God to anything other than God."47~
2182 3, 2, 1, 2114 | God to anything other than God."47~Divination and magic~
2183 3, 2, 1, 2115 | 2115 God can reveal the future to
2184 3, 2, 1, 2116 | loving fear that we owe to God alone.~
2185 3, 2, 1, 2118 | 2118 God's first commandment condemns
2186 3, 2, 1, 2118 | of irreligion: tempting God, in words or deeds, sacrilege,
2187 3, 2, 1, 2119 | 2119 Tempting God consists in putting his
2188 3, 2, 1, 2119 | by this gesture, force God to act.49 Jesus opposed
2189 3, 2, 1, 2119 | opposed Satan with the word of God: "You shall not put the
2190 3, 2, 1, 2119 | shall not put the LORD your God to the test." 50 The challenge
2191 3, 2, 1, 2119 | contained in such tempting of God wounds the respect and trust
2192 3, 2, 1, 2120 | or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin
2193 3, 2, 1, 2121 | thought you could obtain God's gift with money!"54 Peter
2194 3, 2, 1, 2121 | they have their source in God. One can receive them only
2195 3, 2, 1, 2123 | and vital bond of man to God. Atheism must therefore
2196 3, 2, 1, 2125 | denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against
2197 3, 2, 1, 2125 | reveal the true nature of God and of religion."62~
2198 3, 2, 1, 2126 | refusing any dependence on God.63 Yet, "to acknowledge
2199 3, 2, 1, 2126 | Yet, "to acknowledge God is in no way to oppose the
2200 3, 2, 1, 2126 | brought to perfection in God...."64 "For the Church knows
2201 3, 2, 1, 2127 | agnostic refrains from denying God; instead he postulates the
2202 3, 2, 1, 2127 | makes no judgment about God's existence, declaring it
2203 3, 2, 1, 2128 | include a certain search for God, but it can equally express
2204 3, 2, 1, 2129 | every representation of God by the hand of man. Deuteronomy
2205 3, 2, 1, 2129 | absolutely transcendent God who revealed himself to
2206 3, 2, 1, 2130 | already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the
2207 3, 2, 1, 2131 | but also of the Mother of God, the angels, and all the
2208 3, 2, 1, 2131 | becoming incarnate, the Son of God introduced a new "economy"
2209 3, 2, 1, 2132 | not the adoration due to God alone:~Religious worship
2210 3, 2, 1, 2132 | images leading us on to God incarnate. the movement
2211 3, 2, 1, 2133 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
2212 3, 2, 1, 2134 | summons man to believe in God, to hope in him, and to
2213 3, 2, 1, 2135 | shall worship the Lord your God" (Mt 4:10). Adoring God,
2214 3, 2, 1, 2135 | God" (Mt 4:10). Adoring God, praying to him, offering
2215 3, 2, 1, 2136 | 2136 The duty to offer God authentic worship concerns
2216 3, 2, 1, 2138 | that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry,
2217 3, 2, 1, 2139 | 2139 Tempting God in words or deeds, sacrilege,
2218 3, 2, 1, 2140 | denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against
2219 3, 2, 1, 2141 | Incarnation of the Word of God. It is not contrary to the
2220 3, 2, 1 | the name of the Lord your God in vain.72~You have heard
2221 3, 2, 1, 2143 | unique: the revealed name of God. God confides his name to
2222 3, 2, 1, 2143 | the revealed name of God. God confides his name to those
2223 3, 2, 1, 2144 | respect owed to the mystery of God himself and to the whole
2224 3, 2, 1, 2144 | had the sight of Almighty God; therefore they are the
2225 3, 2, 1, 2146 | commandment forbids the abuse of God's name, i.e., every improper
2226 3, 2, 1, 2146 | improper use of the names of God, Jesus Christ, but also
2227 3, 2, 1, 2147 | Promises made to others in God's name engage the divine
2228 3, 2, 1, 2147 | unfaithful to them is to misuse God's name and in some way to
2229 3, 2, 1, 2147 | and in some way to make God out to be a liar.77~
2230 3, 2, 1, 2148 | consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly -
2231 3, 2, 1, 2148 | defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward
2232 3, 2, 1, 2148 | one's speech; in misusing God's name. St. James condemns
2233 3, 2, 1, 2148 | blasphemous to make use of God's name to cover up criminal
2234 3, 2, 1, 2148 | to death. the misuse of God's name to commit a crime
2235 3, 2, 1, 2148 | contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is
2236 3, 2, 1, 2149 | 2149 Oaths which misuse God's name, though without the
2237 3, 2, 1, 2149 | use of the divine name.~[God's] name is great when spoken
2238 3, 2, 1, 2149 | greatness of his majesty. God's name is holy when said
2239 3, 2, 1, 2150 | oath or swearing is to take God as witness to what one affirms.
2240 3, 2, 1, 2150 | shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him, and
2241 3, 2, 1, 2151 | false oaths is a duty toward God. As Creator and Lord, God
2242 3, 2, 1, 2151 | God. As Creator and Lord, God is the norm of all truth.
2243 3, 2, 1, 2151 | with or in opposition to God who is Truth itself. When
2244 3, 2, 1, 2151 | relationship of human speech with God's truth. A false oath calls
2245 3, 2, 1, 2151 | truth. A false oath calls on God to be witness to a lie.~
2246 3, 2, 1, 2153 | involves a reference to God and that God's presence
2247 3, 2, 1, 2153 | reference to God and that God's presence and his truth
2248 3, 2, 1, 2153 | Discretion in calling upon God is allied with a respectful
2249 3, 2, 1, 2157 | the day to the glory of God and calls on the Savior'
2250 3, 2, 1, 2158 | 2158 God calls each one by name.87
2251 3, 2, 1, 2159 | each person marked with God's name will shine forth
2252 3, 2, 1, 2162 | forbids every improper use of God's name. Blasphemy is the
2253 3, 2, 1, 2162 | is the use of the name of God, of Jesus Christ, of the
2254 3, 2, 1, 2163 | 2163 False oaths call on God to be witness to a lie.
2255 3, 2, 1, 2167 | 2167 God calls each one by name (
2256 3, 2, 1 | sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do
2257 3, 2, 1, 2170 | Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with
2258 3, 2, 1, 2170 | therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the
2259 3, 2, 1, 2171 | 2171 God entrusted the sabbath to
2260 3, 2, 1, 2171 | apart for the praise of God, his work of creation, and
2261 3, 2, 1, 2172 | 2172 God's action is the model for
2262 3, 2, 1, 2172 | model for human action. If God "rested and was refreshed"
2263 3, 2, 1, 2173 | mercies and a day to honor God.101 "The Son of Man is lord
2264 3, 2, 1, 2174 | also the first day] when God, separating matter from
2265 3, 2, 1, 2175 | announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law
2266 3, 2, 1, 2176 | human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public,
2267 3, 2, 1, 2177 | feast of Mary the Mother of God, ~her Immaculate Conception, ~
2268 3, 2, 1, 2179 | exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart,
2269 3, 2, 1, 2182 | Together they testify to God's holiness and their hope
2270 3, 2, 1, 2184 | 2184 Just as God "rested on the seventh day
2271 3, 2, 1, 2185 | hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord'
2272 3, 2, 1, 2193 | worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper
2273 3, 2, 2, 2196 | O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you
2274 3, 2, 2, 2196 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
2275 3, 2, 2 | land which the Lord your God gives you.4~He was obedient
2276 3, 2, 2 | of this "commandment of God."6 The Apostle teaches: "
2277 3, 2, 2, 2197 | us the order of charity. God has willed that, after him,
2278 3, 2, 2, 2197 | on to us the knowledge of God. We are obliged to honor
2279 3, 2, 2, 2197 | and respect all those whom God, for our good, has vested
2280 3, 2, 2, 2200 | land which the LORD your God gives you."8 Respecting
2281 3, 2, 2 | I. The Family in God's Plan~The nature of the
2282 3, 2, 2, 2203 | creating man and woman, God instituted the human family
2283 3, 2, 2, 2205 | the reading of the Word of God strengthen it in charity.
2284 3, 2, 2, 2207 | moral values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom.
2285 3, 2, 2, 2208 | pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this:
2286 3, 2, 2, 2214 | them. It is required by God's commandment.18~
2287 3, 2, 2, 2217 | its roots in the fear of God, one of the gifts of the
2288 3, 2, 2, 2222 | children as children of God and respect them as human
2289 3, 2, 2, 2222 | their children to fulfill God's law.~
2290 3, 2, 2, 2226 | vocation as children of God.35 The parish is the Eucharistic
2291 3, 2, 2, 2232 | vocation which comes from God asserts itself more clearly
2292 3, 2, 2, 2233 | invitation to belong to God's family, to live in conformity
2293 3, 2, 2, 2234 | 2234 God's fourth commandment also
2294 3, 2, 2, 2234 | authority in society from God. It clarifies the duties
2295 3, 2, 2, 2238 | authority as representatives of God, who has made them stewards
2296 3, 2, 2, 2238 | but live as servants of God."44 Their loyal collaboration
2297 3, 2, 2, 2240 | is the position to which God has assigned them that they
2298 3, 2, 2, 2242 | distinction between serving God and serving the political
2299 3, 2, 2, 2242 | that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God'
2300 3, 2, 2, 2242 | God the things that are God's."48 "We must obey God
2301 3, 2, 2, 2242 | God's."48 "We must obey God rather than men":49~When
2302 3, 2, 2, 2244 | s origin and destiny in God, the Creator and Redeemer.
2303 3, 2, 2, 2244 | this inspired truth about God and man:~Societies not recognizing
2304 3, 2, 2, 2244 | their independence from God are brought to seek their
2305 3, 2, 2, 2248 | the fourth commandment, God has willed that, after him,
2306 3, 2, 2, 2256 | moral order. "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:
2307 3, 2, 2, 2257 | light the Gospel sheds on God and man, societies easily
2308 3, 2, 2, 2258 | involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever
2309 3, 2, 2, 2258 | Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life
2310 3, 2, 2, 2259 | enemy of his fellow man. God declares the wickedness
2311 3, 2, 2, 2260 | 2260 The covenant between God and mankind is interwoven
2312 3, 2, 2, 2260 | interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and
2313 3, 2, 2, 2260 | shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.59~
2314 3, 2, 2, 2271 | the newborn to perish.74 ~God, the Lord of life, has entrusted
2315 3, 2, 2, 2277 | respect due to the living God, his Creator. ~The error
2316 3, 2, 2, 2280 | responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. ~
2317 3, 2, 2, 2280 | given it to him. ~It is God who remains the sovereign
2318 3, 2, 2, 2280 | not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. ~It
2319 3, 2, 2, 2281 | contrary to love for the living God.~
2320 3, 2, 2, 2283 | ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity
2321 3, 2, 2, 2288 | gifts entrusted to us by God. ~We must take reasonable
2322 3, 2, 2, 2294 | the plan and the will of God.~
2323 3, 2, 2, 2299 | them to meet the living God.~
2324 3, 2, 2, 2300 | it honors the children of God, who are temples of the
2325 3, 2, 2, 2305 | he reconciled men with God and made his Church the
2326 3, 2, 2, 2305 | race and of its union with God. "He is our peace."101 He
2327 3, 2, 2, 2314 | inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm
2328 3, 2, 2, 2318 | 2318 "In [God's] hand is the life of every
2329 3, 2, 2, 2319 | likeness of the living and holy God.~
2330 3, 2, 2, 2324 | respect due to the living God, his Creator.~
2331 3, 2, 2, 2330 | shall be called sons of God" (Mt 5:9).~
2332 3, 2, 2, 2331 | 2331 "God is love and in himself he
2333 3, 2, 2, 2331 | in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity
2334 3, 2, 2, 2331 | love and communion."114~"God created man in his own image . . .
2335 3, 2, 2, 2331 | and multiply";116 "When God created man, he made him
2336 3, 2, 2, 2331 | made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created
2337 3, 2, 2, 2334 | creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal
2338 3, 2, 2, 2334 | likeness of the personal God."119~
2339 3, 2, 2, 2335 | power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though
2340 3, 2, 2, 2336 | the Mount, he interprets God's plan strictly: "You have
2341 3, 2, 2, 2336 | her in his heart."122 What God has joined together, let
2342 3, 2, 2, 2340 | confront him, obedience to God's commandments, exercise
2343 3, 2, 2, 2345 | It is also a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual
2344 3, 2, 2, 2346 | witness to his neighbor of God's fidelity and loving kindness.~
2345 3, 2, 2, 2349 | them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided
2346 3, 2, 2, 2350 | receiving one another from God. They should reserve for
2347 3, 2, 2, 2358 | persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and,
2348 3, 2, 2, 2361 | saying, "Blessed are you, O God of our fathers.... You made
2349 3, 2, 2, 2364 | indissoluble.147 "What therefore God has joined together, let
2350 3, 2, 2, 2365 | keeping one's given word. God is faithful. the Sacrament
2351 3, 2, 2, 2366 | connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative
2352 3, 2, 2, 2367 | power and fatherhood of God.153 "Married couples should
2353 3, 2, 2, 2367 | cooperating with the love of God the Creator and are, in
2354 3, 2, 2, 2373 | large families a sign of God's blessing and the parents'
2355 3, 2, 2, 2374 | give me," asks Abraham of God, "for I continue childless?"163
2356 3, 2, 2, 2375 | to the design and will of God."165~
2357 3, 2, 2, 2387 | directly negates the plan of God which was revealed from
2358 3, 2, 2, 2393 | human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally
2359 3, 2, 2, 2398 | spouses participate in God's fatherhood.~
2360 3, 2, 2, 2401 | order this world's goods to God and to fraternal charity.~
2361 3, 2, 2, 2402 | 2402 In the beginning God entrusted the earth and
2362 3, 2, 2, 2416 | 2416 Animals are God's creatures. He surrounds
2363 3, 2, 2, 2417 | 2417 God entrusted animals to the
2364 3, 2, 2, 2424 | atheism. "You cannot serve God and mammon."205~
2365 3, 2, 2, 2426 | justice so as to correspond to God's plan for man.208~
2366 3, 2, 2, 2427 | created in the image of God and called to prolong the
2367 3, 2, 2, 2427 | fashion with the Son of God in his redemptive work.
2368 3, 2, 2, 2441 | 2441 An increased sense of God and increased self-awareness
2369 3, 2, 2, 2443 | 2443 God blesses those who come to
2370 3, 2, 2, 2447 | work of justice pleasing to God:243~He who has two coats,
2371 3, 2, 2, 2450 | will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor 6:10).~
2372 3, 2, 2, 2459 | is that goods created by God for everyone should in fact
2373 3, 2, 2, 2461 | his vocation and hence to God's call (cf CA 29).~
2374 3, 2, 2, 2462 | work of justice pleasing to God.~
2375 3, 2, 2, 2464 | to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills
2376 3, 2, 2, 2464 | fundamental infidelities to God and, in this sense, they
2377 3, 2, 2, 2465 | Old Testament attests that God is the source of all truth.
2378 3, 2, 2, 2465 | all generations."254 Since God is "true," the members of
2379 3, 2, 2, 2466 | Jesus Christ, the whole of God's truth has been made manifest. "
2380 3, 2, 2, 2471 | clear conscience toward God and toward men."267~
2381 3, 2, 2, 2473 | will be given me to reach God."270~
2382 3, 2, 2, 2474 | have kept your promise, God of faithfulness and truth.
2383 3, 2, 2, 2475 | created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
2384 3, 2, 2, 2500 | the soul, the mystery of God. Even before revealing himself
2385 3, 2, 2, 2500 | to man in words of truth, God reveals himself to him through
2386 3, 2, 2, 2500 | a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of
2387 3, 2, 2, 2500 | mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.290
2388 3, 2, 2, 2501 | Created "in the image of God,"293 man also expresses
2389 3, 2, 2, 2501 | of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty
2390 3, 2, 2, 2501 | bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has
2391 3, 2, 2, 2502 | transcendent mystery of God - the surpassing invisible
2392 3, 2, 2, 2502 | who "reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp
2393 3, 2, 2, 2502 | This spiritual beauty of God is reflected in the most
2394 3, 2, 2, 2502 | most holy Virgin Mother of God, the angels, and saints.
2395 3, 2, 2, 2502 | prayer, and to the love of God, Creator and Savior, the
2396 3, 2, 2, 2504 | created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
2397 3, 2, 2, 2513 | way the infinite beauty of God in works made by human hands.
2398 3, 2, 2, 2513 | dedication to the increase of God's praise and of his glory
2399 3, 2, 2, 2513 | s minds devoutly toward God" (SC 122).~
2400 3, 2, 2, 2518 | heart, for they shall see God."306 "Pure in heart" refers
2401 3, 2, 2, 2518 | wills to the demands of God's holiness, chiefly in three
2402 3, 2, 2, 2518 | believing they may obey God, by obeying may live well,
2403 3, 2, 2, 2519 | promised that they will see God face to face and be like
2404 3, 2, 2, 2519 | precondition of the vision of God. Even now it enables us
2405 3, 2, 2, 2519 | enables us to see according to God, to accept others as "neighbors";
2406 3, 2, 2, 2520 | disordered desires. With God's grace he will prevail ~-
2407 3, 2, 2, 2520 | seeks to find and to fulfill God's will in everything;312 ~-
2408 3, 2, 2, 2520 | turn aside from the path of God's commandments: "Appearance
2409 3, 2, 2, 2531 | heart will enable us to see God: it enables us even now
2410 3, 2, 2, 2531 | see things according to God.~
2411 3, 2, 2, 2540 | humility:~Would you like to see God glorified by you? Then rejoice
2412 3, 2, 2, 2540 | immediately give glory to God. Because his servant could
2413 3, 2, 2, 2540 | in the merits of others, God will be praised.328~
2414 3, 2, 2, 2541 | satisfies man's heart. ~The God of the promises always warned
2415 3, 2, 2, 2542 | to the conflict between God's Law which is the "law
2416 3, 2, 2, 2543 | now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart
2417 3, 2, 2, 2543 | it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
2418 3, 2, 2, 2546 | Apostle gives an example of God's poverty when he says: "
2419 3, 2, 2, 2547 | about tomorrow.342 Trust in God is a preparation for the
2420 3, 2, 2, 2547 | the poor. They shall see God.~
2421 3, 2, 2 | IV. "I Want to See God"~
2422 3, 2, 2, 2548 | vision and beatitude of God. "The promise [of seeing
2423 3, 2, 2, 2548 | The promise [of seeing God] surpasses all beatitude....
2424 3, 2, 2, 2548 | possess.... Whoever sees God has obtained all the goods
2425 3, 2, 2, 2549 | to obtain the good things God promises. In order to possess
2426 3, 2, 2, 2549 | possess and contemplate God, Christ's faithful mortify
2427 3, 2, 2, 2549 | cravings and, with the grace of God, prevail over the seductions
2428 3, 2, 2, 2550 | to perfect communion with God:~There will true glory be,
2429 3, 2, 2, 2550 | either from self or others. God himself will be virtue's
2430 3, 2, 2, 2550 | exist.... "I shall be their God and they will be my people...."
2431 3, 2, 2, 2550 | Apostle's words: "So that God may be all in all." God
2432 3, 2, 2, 2550 | God may be all in all." God himself will be the goal
2433 3, 2, 2, 2554 | abandonment to the providence of God.~
2434 3, 2, 2, 2557 | 2557 "I want to see God" expresses the true desire
2435 3, 2, 2, 2557 | desire of man. Thirst for God is quenched by the water
2436 4, 1, 0, 2558 | Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father (Part Three).~
2437 4, 1, 0, 2558 | with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer.~
2438 4, 1, 0, 2558 | trial and joy.1~Prayer as God's gift~
2439 4, 1, 0, 2559 | one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good
2440 4, 1, 0, 2559 | requesting of good things from God."2 ~But when we pray, do
2441 4, 1, 0, 2559 | Man is a beggar before God."6~
2442 4, 1, 0, 2560 | If you knew the gift of God!"7 ~The wonder of prayer
2443 4, 1, 0, 2560 | arises from the depths of God's desire for us.~Whether
2444 4, 1, 0, 2560 | prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God
2445 4, 1, 0, 2560 | God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst
2446 4, 1, 0, 2561 | to the plea of the living God: ~"They have forsaken me,
2447 4, 1, 0, 2561 | thirst of the only Son of God.11~Prayer as covenant~
2448 4, 1, 0, 2562 | If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are
2449 4, 1, 0, 2563 | others; ~only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart
2450 4, 1, 0, 2563 | encounter, because as image of God we live in relation: ~it
2451 4, 1, 0, 2564 | covenant relationship between God and man in Christ. ~It is
2452 4, 1, 0, 2564 | Christ. ~It is the action of God and of man, springing forth
2453 4, 1, 0, 2564 | human will of the Son of God made man.~Prayer as communion~
2454 4, 1, 0, 2565 | relationship of the children of God with their Father who is
2455 4, 1, 0, 2565 | presence of the thrice-holy God and in communion with him. ~
2456 4, 1, 1, 2566 | 2566 Man is in search of God. In the act of creation,
2457 4, 1, 1, 2566 | In the act of creation, God calls every being from nothingness
2458 4, 1, 1, 2566 | his sin his likeness to God, man remains an image of
2459 4, 1, 1, 2566 | men's essential search for God.2~
2460 4, 1, 1, 2567 | 2567 God calls man first. Man may
2461 4, 1, 1, 2567 | yet the living and true God tirelessly calls each person
2462 4, 1, 1, 2567 | In prayer, the faithful God's initiative of love always
2463 4, 1, 1, 2567 | is always a response. As God gradually reveals himself
2464 4, 1, 1, 2568 | of man, that is, between God's sorrowful call to his
2465 4, 1, 1, 2568 | done?"3 and the response of God's only Son on coming into
2466 4, 1, 1, 2568 | come to do your will, O God."4 Prayer is bound up with
2467 4, 1, 1, 2568 | is the relationship with God in historical events.~Creation -
2468 4, 1, 1, 2569 | describe this relationship with God as an offering of the first-born
2469 4, 1, 1, 2569 | Enosh, and as "walking with God.5 Noah's offering is pleasing
2470 4, 1, 1, 2569 | offering is pleasing to God, who blesses him and through
2471 4, 1, 1, 2569 | before him, "walks with God."6 This kind of prayer is
2472 4, 1, 1, 2569 | every living creature,7 God has always called people
2473 4, 1, 1, 2569 | revealed in the Old Testament.~God's promise and the prayer
2474 4, 1, 1, 2570 | 2570 When God calls him, Abraham goes
2475 4, 1, 1, 2570 | decisions are made according to God's will, is essential to
2476 4, 1, 1, 2570 | veiled complaint reminding God of his promises which seem
2477 4, 1, 1, 2570 | faith in the fidelity of God.~
2478 4, 1, 1, 2571 | Because Abraham believed in God and walked in his presence
2479 4, 1, 1, 2571 | promise.11 After that, once God had confided his plan, Abraham'
2480 4, 1, 1, 2572 | asked to sacrifice the son God had given him. Abraham's
2481 4, 1, 1, 2572 | faith does not weaken (“God himself will provide the
2482 4, 1, 1, 2572 | for he "considered that God was able to raise men even
2483 4, 1, 1, 2572 | Prayer restores man to God's likeness and enables him
2484 4, 1, 1, 2572 | to share in the power of God's love that saves the multitude.16~
2485 4, 1, 1, 2573 | 2573 God renews his promise to Jacob,
2486 4, 1, 1, 2574 | the one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
2487 4, 1, 1, 2575 | again the initiative is God's. From the midst of the
2488 4, 1, 1, 2575 | Christians alike. When "the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and
2489 4, 1, 1, 2575 | because he is the living God who wants men to live. God
2490 4, 1, 1, 2575 | God who wants men to live. God reveals himself in order
2491 4, 1, 1, 2575 | will to that of the Savior God. But in the dialogue in
2492 4, 1, 1, 2575 | in the dialogue in which God confides in him, Moses also
2493 4, 1, 1, 2576 | contemplative prayer by which God's servant remains faithful
2494 4, 1, 1, 2576 | mission. Moses converses with God often and at length, climbing
2495 4, 1, 1, 2576 | repeat the words of his God for their guidance. Moses "
2496 4, 1, 1, 2577 | intimacy with the faithful God, slow to anger and abounding
2497 4, 1, 1, 2577 | but for the people whom God made his own. Moses already
2498 4, 1, 1, 2577 | stands in the breach" before God in order to save the people.25
2499 4, 1, 1, 2577 | people and in the Church: God is love; he is therefore
2500 4, 1, 1, 2578 | prayer of the People of God flourishes in the shadow
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