Chap., §
1 Int | Jesus Christ, the true light that enlightens
2 Int, 1 | salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, "the true light that enlightens
3 Int, 2 | the countenance of Jesus Christ, "the image of the invisible
4 Int, 2 | grace and truth" (Jn 1:14). Christ is "the way, and the truth,
5 Int, 2 | particular, is given by Jesus Christ, or rather is Jesus Christ
6 Int, 2 | Christ, or rather is Jesus Christ himself, as the Second Vatican
7 Int, 2 | the future man, namely, of Christ the Lord. It is Christ,
8 Int, 2 | of Christ the Lord. It is Christ, the last Adam, who fully
9 Int, 2 | Father's love".1 ~Jesus Christ, the "light of the nations",
10 Int, 2 | from the truth about Jesus Christ and his Gospel. The Church
11 Int, 3 | even those who do not know Christ and his Gospel or God himself.
12 Int, 3 | not know anything about Christ or his Church, yet who search
13 Int, 4 | spheres of human life. In Christ's name and with his authority
14 Int, 5 | worthy of the Gospel of Christ' (Phil 1:27). Through the
15 Int, 5 | they receive the grace of Christ and the gifts of his Spirit
16 1 | I DO...? " (Mt 19:16) - Christ and the answer to the question
17 1, 7 | consciously or not, approaches Christ the Redeemer of man and
18 1, 7 | faithful have received in Christ,14 the only response fully
19 1, 7 | make this "encounter" with Christ possible, God willed his
20 1, 7 | person may be able to find Christ, in order that Christ may
21 1, 7 | find Christ, in order that Christ may walk with each person
22 1, 8 | People today need to turn to Christ once again in order to receive
23 1, 8 | is good and what is evil. Christ is the Teacher, the Risen
24 1, 8 | Rev 1:8; 21:6; 22:13), Christ sheds light on man's condition
25 1, 8 | and death, draw near to Christ. He must, so to speak, enter
26 1, 10 | redeemed by the Blood of Christ and made holy by the presence
27 1, 12 | in the full following of Christ. Indeed, Jesus says to his
28 1, 14 | certainly does not mean that Christ wishes to put the love of
29 1, 14 | unity is attested to by Christ in his words and by his
30 1, 14 | echoes the moral preaching of Christ, expressed in a wonderful
31 1, 15 | fulfil them" (Mt 5:17). Christ is the key to the Scriptures: "
32 1, 15 | witness to me" (Jn 5:39). Christ is the centre of the economy
33 1, 15 | on Paul's statement that "Christ is the end of the law" (
34 1, 15 | fullness which is achieved in Christ (plenitudo legis in Christo
35 1, 16 | sort of self-portrait of Christ, and for this very reason
36 1, 16 | to communion of life with Christ.26 ~
37 1, 17 | completely fulfilled in following Christ. Jesus' conversation with
38 1, 17 | the other. The follower of Christ knows that his vocation
39 1, 19 | perceived by the disciples after Christ's Resurrection, when the
40 1, 19 | called to be a follower of Christ (cf. Acts 6:1). Following
41 1, 19 | cf. Acts 6:1). Following Christ is thus the essential and
42 1, 21 | 21. Following Christ is not an outward imitation,
43 1, 21 | being. Being a follower of Christ means becoming conformed
44 1, 21 | Cross (cf. Phil 2:5-8). Christ dwells by faith in the heart
45 1, 21 | Having become one with Christ, the Christian becomes a
46 1, 21 | configures the faithful to Christ in the Paschal Mystery of
47 1, 21 | resurrection; it "clothes him" in Christ (cf. Gal 3:27): "Let us
48 1, 21 | not only Christians, but Christ (...). Marvel and rejoice:
49 1, 21 | rejoice: we have become Christ! ".28 Having died to sin,
50 1, 21 | 3-11): alive for God in Christ Jesus, they are called to
51 1, 21 | culmination of our assimilation to Christ, the source of "eternal
52 1, 22 | and live out the love of Christ is not possible for man
53 1, 22 | abide in my love" (Jn 15:9). Christ's gift is his Spirit, whose
54 1, 23 | of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from
55 1, 23 | reaches its fulfilment in Christ, the relationship between
56 1, 23 | it is through faith in Christ that we have been made righteous (
57 1, 23 | truth came through Jesus Christ" (Jn 1:17). The promise
58 1, 24 | of possessing in Jesus Christ the love of God, generates
59 1, 24 | the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another just
60 1, 24 | Spirit given through faith in Christ.33 The external precepts
61 1, 25 | every individual, and it is Christ alone who is capable of
62 1, 25 | of the age" (Mt 28:20). Christ's relevance for people of
63 1, 25 | how to follow and imitate Christ: "For to me to live is Christ" (
64 1, 25 | Christ: "For to me to live is Christ" (Phil 1:21). ~
65 1, 27 | exercised in the name of Jesus Christ".41 The Church, in her life
66 1, 27 | Magisterium, in fidelity to Jesus Christ and in continuity with the
67 2, 29 | conducted in the light of Christ, the "Good Teacher", has
68 2, 29 | giving himself to man in Christ, offers him the happiness
69 2, 29 | vocation of the faithful in Christ and on their obligation
70 2, 29 | the Bishops, to whom Jesus Christ primarily entrusted the
71 2, 30 | the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the
72 2, 34 | question of morality, to which Christ provides the answer, cannot
73 2, 34 | expression in the words of Christ: "You will know the truth,
74 2, 45 | fulfilment" of God's law in Jesus Christ and in his Spirit. This
75 2, 45 | of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8:2). Saint
76 2, 53 | ultimately founded upon Christ, who is the same yesterday
77 2, 53 | and today and for ever".97 Christ is the "Beginning" who,
78 2, 59 | judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus" (Rom 2:16). ~The
79 2, 64 | Church is by the will of Christ the teacher of truth. Her
80 2, 64 | authentically that truth which is Christ, and at the same time with
81 2, 66 | earlier words: "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast
82 2, 69 | to remain united to Jesus Christ and to his Church, could
83 2, 73 | on him by grace. In Jesus Christ and in his Spirit, the Christian
84 2, 73 | Cyril of Alexandria writes, Christ "forms us according to his
85 2, 73 | shines forth in us who are in Christ, when we show ourselves
86 2, 73(123)| secretly at work. Since Christ died for all and since man'
87 2, 73 | before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive
88 2, 76 | renewed in the blood of Jesus Christ and in the gift of the Spirit.
89 2, 83 | that truth which is Jesus Christ himself. In him, who is
90 3 | III - "LEST THE CROSS OF CHRIST BE EMPTIED OF ITS POWER (
91 3 | For freedom Christ has set us free" (Gal 5:
92 3, 85 | day the Church looks to Christ with unfailing love, fully
93 3, 85 | it is in the Crucified Christ that the Church finds the
94 3, 85 | mission he had received: "Christ... sent me... to preach
95 3, 85 | wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power....
96 3, 85 | its power.... We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block
97 3, 85 | called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the
98 3, 85 | 23-24). The Crucified Christ reveals the authentic meaning
99 3, 86 | and even more, through Christ's Revelation, to become
100 3, 86 | needs to be set free. It is Christ who sets it free: he "has
101 3, 87 | 87. Christ reveals, first and foremost,
102 3, 87 | truth are revealed in Jesus Christ as the deepest foundation
103 3, 87 | regale of the Crucified Christ (cf Jn 12:32), to share
104 3, 88 | is a lived knowledge of Christ, a living remembrance of
105 3, 88 | between the believer and Jesus Christ, the Way, and the Truth,
106 3, 88 | trusting abandonment to Christ, which enables us to live
107 3, 89 | up for her" (Eph 5:25). Christ's witness is the source,
108 3, 89 | Ephesus, "and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself
109 3, 91 | that same light, which is Christ, a burning and shining lamp,
110 3, 91 | examples of followers of Christ, beginning with the deacon
111 3, 91 | faith and their love for Christ, unwilling to deny him.
112 3, 91 | the witness of faith. Like Christ himself, they obediently
113 3, 94 | fullness on the face of Christ. As Saint Justin put it, "
114 3, 95 | as the faithful Bride of Christ, who is the Truth in person. "
115 3, 95 | obedience to the truth which is Christ, whose image is reflected
116 3, 95 | which we have received in Christ, and as a service to man,
117 3, 95 | from the saving doctrine of Christ, this must always be joined
118 3, 95 | tolerance and charity, as Christ himself showed by his conversations
119 3, 103 | Only in the mystery of Christ's Redemption do we discover
120 3, 103 | lust or of man redeemed by Christ? This is what is at stake:
121 3, 103 | at stake: the reality of Christ's redemption. Christ has
122 3, 103 | of Christ's redemption. Christ has redeemed us! This means
123 3, 103 | due to an imperfection of Christ's redemptive act, but to
124 3, 105 | be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! " (Rom 7:24-25). ~
125 3, 106 | the mandate of the Risen Christ, who defines the very reason
126 3, 107 | the Christian partakes of Christ's self-giving love and is
127 3, 108 | there is the Spirit of Christ, the principle and strength
128 3, 108 | the Church, the Bride of Christ. It is in fact he who raises
129 3, 110 | of God and the charity of Christ, the Church's Magisterium
130 3, 114 | who bring new disciples to Christ. They are authentic teachers,
131 3, 114 | endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people
132 3, 114 | the Cross in the Blood of Christ: in the Holy Spirit, it
133 3, 114 | been entrusted by Jesus Christ in a particular way to us,
134 3, 115 | cf Lev 19:2), to be — in Christ — perfect as he is perfect (
135 3, 115 | lead us, by the grace of Christ, on the path of that fullness
136 3, 117 | wisdom, lest the Cross of Christ be emptied of its power" (
137 3, 117 | the wisdom and power of Christ Crucified, the Truth which
138 3, 117 | contains the voice of Jesus Christ, the voice of the truth
139 Conc, 118 | Mercy because her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father
140 Conc, 118 | s mercy (cf Jn 3:16-18). Christ came not to condemn but
141 Conc, 119 | Gospel, in following Jesus Christ, in abandoning oneself to
142 Conc, 119 | reality, inasmuch as following Christ will gradually bring out
143 Conc, 119 | dynamic process of following Christ develops in an organic manner,
144 Conc, 119 | consequences. The one who loves Christ keeps his commandments (
145 Conc, 120 | she asks, together with Christ, forgiveness from the Father
146 Conc, 120 | Wisdom". This Wisdom is Jesus Christ himself, the Eternal Word
147 Conc, 120 | knows that the sacrifice of Christ her Son would thus be emptied
148 Conc, 120 | and the glory of the Risen Christ can grant peace to his conscience
149 Conc, 120 | people, ~that the Cross of Christ ~may not be emptied of its
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