Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1| fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born
2 Intro,1| emphasizes that the Son of God was born of woman, born
3 Intro,1| Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his
4 Intro,1| comforting: "So through God you are no longer a slave
5 Intro,1| Incarnation of the Son of God, his conception and birth,
6 I,2 | you have found favour with God. And behold, you will conceive
7 I,2 | called holy, the Son of God" (1:32-33, 35). Mary's reply
8 I,3 | in the beginning was with God, and through whom everything
9 I,3 | Of the Only-Begotten Son, God from God, the Apostle Paul
10 I,3 | Only-Begotten Son, God from God, the Apostle Paul writes
11 I,3 | all creation" (Col 1:15). God created the world through
12 I,3 | and Substantial Image of God; "He reflects the glory
13 I,3 | He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp
14 I,3 | loved by the Father, as God from God and Light from
15 I,3 | the Father, as God from God and Light from Light, he
16 I,3 | of everything created by God in time.~The fact that in
17 I,3 | speaks of the purpose which God had set forth in Christ, "
18 I,4 | the one Mediator between God and men, and there is no
19 I,4 | therefore the one who reveals God's plan for all creation,
20 I,4 | the image of the invisible God, Christ is the perfect man
21 I,4 | his incarnation the Son of God united himself in some sense
22 I,5 | on the part of the Son of God took place in the greatest
23 I,5 | a hymn to Christ as to a God".(7)~But the great event
24 I,5 | as a whole. Christ, true God and true man, the Lord of
25 I,5 | In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers
26 I,6 | Prophets. The latter spoke in God's name and in his place.
27 I,6 | merely speak "in the name of God" like the Prophets, but
28 I,6 | the Prophets, but he is God himself speaking in his
29 I,6 | by which man's search for God has been expressed from
30 I,6 | simply a case of man seeking God, but of God who comes in
31 I,6 | man seeking God, but of God who comes in Person to speak
32 I,6 | Gospel: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in
33 I,6 | fulfilment is brought about by God himself and transcends all
34 I,6 | longer a "blind search for God" (cf. Acts 17:27) but the
35 I,6 | the response of faith to God who reveals himself. It
36 I,6 | response in which man speaks to God as his Creator and Father,
37 I,6 | consubstantial Word in whom God speaks to each individual
38 I,6 | is enabled to respond to God. What is more, in this Man
39 I,6 | all creation responds to God. Jesus Christ is the new
40 I,6 | definitive completion. Just as God in Christ speaks to humanity
41 I,6 | creation speaks of itself to God—indeed, it gives itself
42 I,6 | indeed, it gives itself to God. Everything thus returns
43 I,6 | fulfilment of all things in God: a fulfilment which is the
44 I,6 | fulfilment which is the glory of God. The religion founded upon
45 I,6 | the praise of the glory of God (cf. Eph 1:12). All creation
46 I,6 | homo) is the epiphany of God's glory, man who is called
47 I,6 | the fullness of life in God.~
48 I,7 | 7. In Jesus Christ God not only speaks to man but
49 I,7 | Incarnation of the Son of God attests that God goes in
50 I,7 | Son of God attests that God goes in search of man. Jesus
51 I,7 | which begins in the heart of God and culminates in the Incarnation
52 I,7 | Incarnation of the Word. If God goes in search of man, created
53 I,7 | dignity of an adoptive son. God therefore goes in search
54 I,7 | any other creature. Man is God's possession by virtue of
55 I,7 | of a choice made in love: God seeks man out, moved by
56 I,7 | fatherly heart.~Why does God seek man out? Because man
57 I,7 | led astray by the enemy of God (cf. Gen 3:13). Satan deceived
58 I,7 | persuading him that he too was a god, that he, like God, was
59 I,7 | was a god, that he, like God, was capable of knowing
60 I,7 | of man through his Son, God wishes to persuade man to
61 I,7 | sin and is reconciled to God. The Son of God became man,
62 I,7 | reconciled to God. The Son of God became man, taking a body
63 I,8 | dwelling in the heart of God", of sharing in God's very
64 I,8 | heart of God", of sharing in God's very life. Saint Paul
65 I,8 | passage already quoted: "God has sent the Spirit of his
66 I,8 | Christ himself, who turned to God "with loud cries and tears" (
67 I,8 | Cross: man cries out to God just as Christ cried out
68 I,8 | share in the inmost life of God. He also enables man to
69 I,8 | dwelling in the inmost life of God", which begins with the
70 I,8 | Incarnation of the Son of God. The Holy Spirit, who searches
71 I,8 | who searches the depths of God (cf. 1 Cor 2:10), leads
72 II,9 | the birth of the Son of God, Saint Paul places this
73 II,9 | fulfilled by the very fact that God, in the Incarnation, came
74 II,9 | through his encounter with God. It is in God that man finds
75 II,9 | encounter with God. It is in God that man finds full self-realization:
76 II,9 | Man fulfils himself in God, who comes to meet him through
77 II,9 | his Eternal Son. Thanks to God's coming on earth, human
78 II,9 | the One who is eternal, God himself. Thus, to enter
79 II,9 | fulfilment in the eternity of God.~
80 II,10 | glorious return of the Son of God at the end of time. In Jesus
81 II,10 | time becomes a dimension of God, who is himself eternal.
82 II,10 | From this relationship of God with time there arises the
83 II,10 | weeks, are dedicated to God, as once happened in the
84 II,11 | The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the
85 II,12 | dedicated in a special way to God. It fell every seventh year,
86 II,12 | to be done in honour of God. What was true for the sabbatical
87 II,12 | because it belonged to God; nor could the Israelites
88 II,12 | state of slavery, since God had "redeemed" them for
89 II,13 | conviction, in fact, that to God alone, as Creator, belonged
90 II,13 | 23). If in his Providence God had given the earth to humanity,
91 II,13 | with working in the name of God, who remains the sole owner
92 II,13 | full sense, since it is God's will that created goods
93 II,16 | outwardly, for the coming of God is also an outward, visible,
94 II,16 | imbued with the presence of God and with his saving activity.
95 II,16 | nothing is impossible with God".~
96 III,17 | man's history but also to God's intervention in human
97 III,19 | Jesus Christ is the "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
98 III,19 | Humbly heeding the word of God, she reaffirmed the universal
99 III,20 | In the Council's message God is presented in his absolute
100 III,21 | to the entire People of God, making it a sharer in his
101 III,23 | revelation of the children of God, and lives by this hope,
102 III,24 | road taken by the People of God of the Old Covenant, starting
103 III,25 | make glad the city of God" (46:4).~
104 III,26 | presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ
105 III,26 | thousand years ago the Son of God was made man by the power
106 III,28 | Nazareth, that the Son of God chose to enter into human
107 IV,31 | today in their faith in God who has revealed himself
108 IV,32 | Incarnation of the Son of God and of the Redemption which
109 IV,32 | sign of intimate union with God, and of the unity of all
110 IV,32 | for reconciliation with God on the part of both individuals
111 IV,33 | of doing penance: before God and man she always acknowledges
112 IV,34 | detrimental to the unity willed by God for his People. In the course
113 IV,35 | truly free and filled with God, were in some way able to
114 IV,36 | people today to live as if God did not exist, or to be
115 IV,36 | having shown the true face of God, by having "failed in their
116 IV,36 | what extent has the word of God become more fully the soul
117 IV,36 | participation by the People of God, without adopting notions
118 IV,37 | soldiers" as it were of God's great cause. As far as
119 IV,37 | Church gave supreme honour to God himself; in the martyrs
120 IV,38 | the one Mediator between God and man and the sole Redeemer
121 IV,39 | centred on Christ, the Son of God made man, must necessarily
122 IV,40 | reflection on Christ, the Word of God, made man by the power of
123 IV,40 | the world of the Son of God, the mystery of salvation
124 IV,41 | of Christ, of the word of God and of faith ought to inspire
125 IV,42 | the faith of the People of God".(27) To be realistic, we
126 IV,44 | absolute mystery of the Triune God, is the Person-love, the
127 IV,44 | every gift that comes from God in the order of creation,
128 IV,44 | certain sense, the subject of God's self- communication in
129 IV,45 | who builds the Kingdom of God within the course of history
130 IV,46 | to make it correspond to God's plan.~As the Apostle Paul
131 IV,46 | coming of the Kingdom of God, preparing for it daily
132 IV,47 | members of the People of God to a more mature awareness
133 IV,48 | like Abraham, accepted God's will "hoping against hope" (
134 IV,48 | hearts to the promises of God.~Year Three: God the Father~
135 IV,48 | promises of God.~Year Three: God the Father~
136 IV,49 | they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
137 IV,49 | Father: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
138 IV,50 | the First Letter of John: "God is love" (4:8,16). Charity,
139 IV,50 | twofold reality as love of God and neighbour is the summing
140 IV,50 | the believer. It has in God its source and its goal.~
141 IV,52 | by its tendency to forget God or to keep him at a distance.
142 IV,53 | have a pre-eminent place. God grant that as a confirmation
143 IV,54 | model of love towards both God and neighbour. As she herself
144 IV,54 | Virgin Mary responded to God's call with complete openness: "
145 IV,54 | addressed to all the children of God, so that they will return
146 IV,55 | whole Church in the Triune God.~But since Christ is the
147 V,56 | belong to the People of God: "All are called to be part
148 V,56 | unity of the new People of God ... And there belong to
149 V,56 | mankind, which by the grace of God is called to salvation".(
150 V,56 | involved in the plan of God, and emphasizes the various
151 V,59 | the image of the unseen God, the firstborn of every
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