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(...) Redemptoris missio
Chap., §
1501 1, 11 | Gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone
1502 1, 11 | and reconciled mankind to God.~Confirming his words by
1503 1, 11 | himself to be the Son of God dwelling in intimate union
1504 1, 11 | came to reveal the face of God and to merit salvation for
1505 1, 11 | which has been received from God's bounty in order to be
1506 1, 11 | the profound demands of God's life within us. Those
1507 1, 11 | as a fitting response to God. They should be ever mindful
1508 2 | CHAPTER II - THE KINGDOM OF GOD~
1509 2, 12 | 12. "It is 'God, who is rich in mercy' whom
1510 2, 12 | this way the kingdom of God comes to be fulfilled: the
1511 2, 12 | Old Testament attests that God chose and formed a people
1512 2, 12 | plan. But at the same time God is the Creator and Father
1513 2, 12 | experiences a personal and saving God (cf. Dt 4:37; 7:6-8; Is
1514 2, 13 | Jesus of Nazareth brings God's plan to fulfillment. After
1515 2, 13 | preaching the Gospel of God and saying: 'The time is
1516 2, 13 | fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe
1517 2, 13 | proclamation and establishment of God's kingdom are the purpose
1518 2, 13 | our midst. The kingdom of God is at hand (cf. Mk 1:15);
1519 2, 13 | inaugurates is the kingdom of God. Jesus himself reveals who
1520 2, 13 | himself reveals who this God is, the One whom he addresses
1521 2, 13 | Father (cf. Mk 14:36). God, as revealed above all in
1522 2, 13 | St. John tells us that "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8, 16).
1523 2, 13 | repent" and to "believe" in God's merciful love. The kingdom
1524 2, 13 | person learns to turn to God in the intimacy of prayer
1525 2, 14 | own person.~The kingdom of God is meant for all mankind,
1526 2, 14 | making them feel loved by God, thus revealing his tender
1527 2, 14 | brought by the kingdom of God come to the human person
1528 2, 14 | sin and rebellion against God - are signs that indeed "
1529 2, 14 | that indeed "the kingdom of God has come upon you" (Mt 12:
1530 2, 15 | with one another and with God.~The kingdom is the concern
1531 2, 15 | acknowledging and promoting God's activity, which is present
1532 2, 15 | In a word, the kingdom of God is the manifestation and
1533 2, 15 | manifestation and the realization of God's plan of salvation in all
1534 2 | In the Risen Christ God's Kingdom Is Fulfilled and
1535 2, 16 | raising Jesus from the dead, God has conquered death, and
1536 2, 16 | into heaven he shares in God's power and in his dominion
1537 2, 16 | news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" (
1538 2, 16 | preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord
1539 2, 16 | kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph 5:5; cf. Rev 11:15;
1540 2, 16 | proclamation of the kingdom of God (the content of Jesus' own "
1541 2, 17 | progress. The kingdom of God, however, "is not of this
1542 2, 18 | This is not the kingdom of God as we know it from Revelation.
1543 2, 18 | person of Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, who came '
1544 2, 18 | 10:45)."22 The kingdom of God is not a concept, a doctrine,
1545 2, 18 | the image of the invisible God.23 If the kingdom is separated
1546 2, 18 | no longer the kingdom of God which he revealed. The result
1547 2, 18 | ordered toward the kingdom of God of which she is the seed,
1548 2, 18 | connection with the kingdom of God and of Christ, which she
1549 2, 20 | power to become children of God" (Jn 1:12).~The Church,
1550 2, 20 | which help people to accept God's plan. It is true that
1551 2, 20 | dimensions of the kingdom of God29 do not weaken the foundations
1552 2, 20 | pilgrimage of conversion to God's plan through her witness
1553 2, 20 | kingdom by its very nature is God's gift and work, as we are
1554 2, 20 | delivers the kingdom to God the Father" and "God will
1555 2, 20 | to God the Father" and "God will be everything to everyone" (
1556 3, 23 | this man was the Son of God!" (Mk 15:39) In Matthew,
1557 3, 23 | that is, conversion to God's love and mercy, the experience
1558 3, 23 | they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
1559 3, 24 | like that of Jesus, is God's work or, as Luke often
1560 3, 25 | Acts 17:18, 26- 28). The God whom Paul wishes to reveal
1561 3, 25 | their lives; indeed, this God has created them and mysteriously
1562 3, 25 | are to recognize the true God, they must abandon the false
1563 3, 25 | themselves to the One whom God has sent to remedy their
1564 3, 28 | attain truth, goodness and God himself.36~The Spirit offers
1565 3, 28 | savoring of the mystery of God's design"; indeed, "we are
1566 3, 28 | Mystery in a manner known to God."37 The Church "is aware
1567 3, 28 | stirred by the Spirit of God and can therefore never
1568 3, 28 | history: "The Spirit of God with marvelous foresight
1569 4, 31 | communicate the love of God to all people and nations."49~
1570 4, 32 | commitment of the whole People of God. Nevertheless, care must
1571 4, 34 | mission of the whole People of God and as a result become neglected
1572 4, 36 | lacking within the People of God; indeed these difficulties
1573 4, 37 | Christ and the kingdom of God must become the means for
1574 4, 38 | Christian path to meeting God, to prayer, to asceticism,
1575 4, 39 | this, a right given her by God for the accomplishment of
1576 4, 39 | lose its relationship to God's plan and would be impoverished
1577 5, 41 | manifestation or epiphany of God's plan and its fulfillment
1578 5, 41 | history; in this history God, by means of missions, clearly
1579 5, 42 | the model, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities.
1580 5, 42 | questions which lead to God and to the Gospel. A commitment
1581 5, 44 | being loved and saved by God. "Evangelization will always
1582 5, 44 | all people, as a gift of God's grace and mercy."72 All
1583 5, 44 | the mystery of the love of God, who invites him to enter
1584 5, 44 | sin and death; through him God bestows "new life" that
1585 5, 44 | enter into communion with God the Father through Christ.75~
1586 5, 45 | We had courage in our God to declare to you the Gospel
1587 5, 45 | declare to you the Gospel of God in the face of great opposition" (
1588 5, 45 | knowing the truth about God, about man, and about how
1589 5, 45 | truth, but the "word of God," which has an intrinsic
1590 5, 46 | proclamation of the Word of God has Christian conversion
1591 5, 46 | Conversion is a gift of God, a work of the Blessed Trinity.
1592 5, 46 | neither limits nor hinders God's gift. At the same time,
1593 5, 46 | preaching the Gospel of God and saying: 'The time is
1594 5, 46 | fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe
1595 5, 46 | hear the "Good News" of the God who reveals and gives himself
1596 5, 46 | If you knew the gift of God," and in the unconscious
1597 5, 47 | cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5). In Baptism, in
1598 5, 47 | born anew to the life of God's children, united to Jesus
1599 5, 48 | and Lord. This is part of God's plan, for it pleases him "
1600 5, 49 | sign of the presence of God in the world"80 and which
1601 5, 49 | to the whole people of God and to all its missionary
1602 5, 49 | be presented as a gift of God to be lived out in community (
1603 5, 50 | of reconciliation which God is bringing about in our
1604 5, 50 | common profession of faith in God and in Jesus Christ before
1605 5, 51 | it listens to the word of God, focuses its prayer on the
1606 5, 54 | involve the whole people of God, and not just a few experts,
1607 5, 55 | other religions. In Christ, God calls all peoples to himself
1608 5, 55 | other religions can receive God's grace and be saved by
1609 5, 55 | faith and baptism which God wills for all people."100
1610 5, 58 | live and act as a son of God, sets him free from injustices
1611 5, 58 | revealing to peoples the God whom they seek and do not
1612 5, 58 | grandeur of man created in God's image and loved by him,
1613 5, 58 | of all men and women as God's sons and daughters, the
1614 5, 58 | man over nature created by God and placed at man's service,
1615 5, 59 | gives everyone a place in God's plan, which is the building
1616 5, 59 | development derives from God, and from the model of Jesus -
1617 5, 59 | from the model of Jesus - God and man - and must lead
1618 5, 59 | and must lead back to God.111 That is why there is
1619 5, 60 | the image and likeness of God to be his children, but
1620 5, 60 | violated. For this reason, God has become their defender
1621 6, 61 | missionary work of Paul, who by God's will was called and sent
1622 6, 69 | the majesty and love of God, as well as to unity in
1623 6, 69 | action in order to extend God's kingdom. In recent times
1624 6, 69 | a total gift of self to God and in complete readiness
1625 6, 70 | are consecrated to love of God and neighbor, especially
1626 6, 71 | upon the entire People of God. Whereas the foundation
1627 6, 71 | of the entire People of God and of the apostolate of
1628 6, 71 | to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal
1629 6, 71 | accordance with the will of God."151~
1630 6, 72 | represent a true gift of God both for new evangelization
1631 7, 77 | the marvelous things which God had wrought through their
1632 7, 78 | will be effective through God's grace. In his Letters,
1633 7, 78 | accepted and offered to God with love, derives from
1634 7, 78 | offer their sufferings to God for missionaries. By making
1635 7, 81 | that we have received from God - life itself as well as
1636 7, 81 | as an offering made to God, in the Eucharistic celebration
1637 7 | Formation Among the People of God~
1638 7, 83 | and forming the People of God to share in the Church's
1639 7, 83 | the poor are hungry for God, not just for bread and
1640 7, 84 | spirit among the People of God. The Missionary Union has
1641 7, 85 | Christ's disciples must "obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:
1642 7 | God Is Preparing a New Springtime
1643 7, 86 | unjustified: we have faith in God our Father and Lord, in
1644 7, 86 | the redemption draws near, God is preparing a great springtime
1645 7, 86 | ideal the whole People of God must be educated.~We cannot
1646 7, 86 | ignorance of the love of God. For each believer, as for
1647 7, 86 | humanity and corresponds to God's mysterious and merciful
1648 8, 87 | particular to all those whom God has called to be missionaries.~
1649 8 | then, we must pray that God will grant us boldness in
1650 8, 88 | though he was in the form of God, did not count equality
1651 8, 88 | not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
1652 8, 89 | into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (
1653 8, 89 | sisters that they are loved by God and are capable of loving,
1654 8, 89 | ideology. He is a sign of God's love in the world - a
1655 8, 91 | in generous devotion to God and neighbor. In a word,
1656 8, 91 | thus can you be a sign of God in the world and re-live
1657 8, 91 | problems in the light of God's word and in personal and
1658 8, 91 | witness to the experience of God, and must be able to say
1659 8, 91 | concretely that the kingdom of God has already come, and that
Slavorum apostoli
Chap., §
1660 2, 5 | and indomitable hope in God. They had in fact prepared
1661 2, 7 | Gospel and teacher "from God and the holy Apostle Peter",10
1662 3, 8 | from one's homeland, which God sometimes requires of those
1663 3, 8 | growth of the People of God on earth. The Lord said
1664 3, 8 | proclaim there the Word of God: "Come over to Macedonia
1665 3, 9 | you are all children of God, through faith. For as many
1666 3, 11 | to proclaim the word of God in images and concepts that
1667 3, 11 | bring them the one word of God, thus made accessible in
1668 4 | THEY PLANTED THE CHURCH OF GOD~
1669 5, 16 | language, nor heard the word of God proclaimed in a way that
1670 5, 16 | intended by the will of God the Creator and Redeemer
1671 5, 16 | belong to the new People of God. Wherefore this People,
1672 5, 16 | so that the purpose of God's will may be fulfilled.
1673 5, 16 | fulfilled. In the beginning God made human nature one. After
1674 5, 16 | The Church or People of God takes nothing away from
1675 5, 16 | which adorns the People of God is a gift from the Lord
1676 5, 17 | harmonies for the praise of God from every part of the globe,
1677 5, 17 | Reminding them that God causes the sun to rise and
1678 5, 17 | this because you consider God is so weak that he cannot
1679 5, 17 | is Lord, to the glory of God the Father";32 "All the
1680 5, 18 | all those who believe in God, One and Three, revealed
1681 5, 19 | historical situation to win for God each and every human person,
1682 5, 19 | play and their own place in God's mysterious plan and in
1683 5, 19 | of the two holy Brothers: God "merciful and kind",35 "
1684 5, 20 | the humanity created by God the Father, redeemed by
1685 5, 20 | heirs of the promise made by God to Abraham.39 In this way,
1686 5, 20 | all of these, the merciful God, in our own time, raised
1687 5, 20 | of these men pleasing to God".40~
1688 8, 29 | and Slavonic",47 adoring God and venerating the first
1689 8, 30 | hands I commend...".~O great God, One in Trinity, I entrust
1690 8, 30 | and accepted you, the true God, and through Baptism have
1691 8, 30 | human beings and children of God, may they have the strength
1692 8, 31 | 31. To you, therefore, God the Father Almighty, God
1693 8, 31 | God the Father Almighty, God the Son who have redeemed
1694 8, 31 | have redeemed the world, God the Spirit who are the sustainer
Sollicitudo rei socialis
Chap., §
1695 2, 8 | application of the word of God to people's lives and the
1696 3, 26(48) | of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect
1697 4, 29 | see them as a gift from God and as a response to the
1698 4, 29 | who has been created by God in his image and likeness (
1699 4, 29 | elements: the earth, from which God forms man's body, and the
1700 4, 29 | other creatures placed by God under his dominion (cf.
1701 4, 29 | remain subject to the will of God, who imposes limits upon
1702 4, 29 | man, being the image of God, has a true affinity with
1703 4, 30 | 2-3). ~When man disobeys God and refuses to submit to
1704 4, 30 | who believe in the word of God, that today's "development"
1705 4, 30 | be betraying the will of God the Creator. In this regard,
1706 4, 30 | who receive the gifts of God in order to make them fruitful,
1707 4, 31 | him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and
1708 4, 31 | is possible only because God the Father has decided from
1709 4, 31 | trespasses" (Eph 1:7). In him God wished to conquer sin and
1710 4, 31 | delivers the Kingdom to God the Father" (1 Cor. 15:
1711 4, 31 | instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the
1712 4, 31(60) | him, how does the love of God abide in him?"( 1 Jn 3:17)
1713 4, 33 | that man is the image of God, called to share in the
1714 4, 33 | truth and the good which is God himself, does not understand
1715 4, 33 | be based on the love of God and neighbor, and must help
1716 5, 36 | it is based on faith in God and on his law, which commands
1717 5, 36 | in the will of the Triune God, his plan for humanity,
1718 5, 36 | justice and his mercy. The God who is rich in mercy, the
1719 5, 36 | observe these is to offend God and hurt one's neighbor,
1720 5, 37 | attitudes opposed to the will of God, the good of neighbor and
1721 5, 38 | recognize as a demand of God's will, the only true foundation
1722 5, 38 | entails a relationship to God, to the sin committed, to
1723 5, 38 | individual or a community. It is God, in "whose hands are the
1724 5, 39 | all are equally invited by God. Hence the importance of
1725 5, 40 | becomes the living image of God the Father, redeemed by
1726 5, 40 | the common fatherhood of God, of the brotherhood of all
1727 5, 40 | of the intimate life of God, one God in three Persons,
1728 5, 40 | intimate life of God, one God in three Persons, is what
1729 7, 47 | is open to the Kingdom of God.~The Church has confidence
1730 7, 47 | indestructible image of God the Creator, which is identical
1731 7, 47 | dignity of man, created by God, redeemed by Christ, made
1732 7, 47 | believe in a just and merciful God. And I extend it to all
1733 7, 47 | it depends, above all, on God.~
1734 7, 48 | identified with the Kingdom of God, but that all such achievements
1735 7, 48 | mystery."89 ~The Kingdom of God becomes present above all
1736 7, 48 | Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Mary, through
1737 7, 48 | Sacrifice, which anticipates God's Kingdom and proclaims
1738 7, 48 | through faith and works, to God's love, preparing the coming
1739 7, 49 | antiphon: "Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions
1740 7, 49 | also the one who praises God the Father, because "he
Ut unum sint
Chap., §
1741 Int, 1 | Incarnation of the Son of God, who became man in order
1742 Int, 1 | lives for the Kingdom of God, are the most powerful proof
1743 Int, 1 | being, who must live as if God did not exist.~
1744 Int, 2 | everything possible, with God's help, to break down the
1745 1 | God's plan and communion~
1746 1, 5 | Catholic Church bases upon God's plan her ecumenical commitment
1747 1, 5 | referring to the situation of God's People at that time, and
1748 1, 5 | people. "I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1749 1, 5 | situation of the People of God at the time it was written,
1750 1, 5 | reason for the unity of God's children: "Jesus would
1751 1, 5 | into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (
1752 1, 6 | humanity is the will of God. For this reason he sent
1753 1, 6 | the responsibility before God and his plan, which falls
1754 1, 6 | in the very act by which God, through the death of his
1755 1, 7 | those who invoke the Triune God and confess Jesus as Lord
1756 1, 7 | his Church and, indeed, God's. And yet almost everyone,
1757 1, 7 | be one visible Church of God, a Church truly universal
1758 1, 7 | be saved, to the glory of God".6~
1759 1, 8 | chapter on the People of God.8 At the same time, it takes
1760 1, 8 | first Christians of Rome: "God's love has been poured into
1761 1, 9 | essence of this community. God wills the Church, because
1762 1, 9 | them of the grace by which God makes them sharers in his
1763 1, 9 | mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things" (
1764 1, 11 | all the means with which God wishes to endow his Church,
1765 1, 11 | children cannot destroy what God has bestowed on her as part
1766 1, 11 | among her members cause God's plan to be discernible
1767 1, 11 | to the "other side". By God's grace, however, neither
1768 1, 12 | They lovingly believe in God the Father Almighty and
1769 1, 12 | Almighty and in Christ, Son of God and Saviour. They are consecrated
1770 1, 12 | towards the Virgin Mother of God. They also share with us
1771 1, 12 | Churches, the Church of God is built up and grows in
1772 1, 14 | arrive at a Church which God has in mind for the future.
1773 1, 14 | that in the Pentecost Event God has already manifested the
1774 1, 15 | fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand", and the subsequent
1775 1, 15 | without ever losing sight of God's plan, change his or her
1776 1, 15 | of "the mighty works of God" (mirabilia Dei) has been
1777 1, 15 | horizons, for which the Triune God calls us to give thanks:
1778 1, 18 | today. The unity willed by God can be attained only by
1779 1, 18 | is in contradiction with God who is Truth. In the Body
1780 1, 18 | especially in what concerns God and his Church",33 and adherence
1781 1, 18 | opposed both to the nature of God who offers his communion
1782 1, 19 | understandable to those for whom God himself intends it. In my
1783 1, 19 | They wanted the one word of God to be "made accessible in
1784 1, 21 | love which is directed to God and, at the same time, to
1785 1, 21 | perfect. Love is given to God as the perfect source of
1786 1, 26 | together the children of God who were scattered, so that
1787 1, 26 | the mysterious reality of God's fatherhood and the truth
1788 1, 26 | Persons, and the union of God's children in truth and
1789 1, 28 | creature on earth which God willed for itself"; thus
1790 1, 34 | If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, and
1791 2, 41 | truly an immense gift of God, one which deserves all
1792 2, 41 | appreciation of how much God has already given is the
1793 2, 41 | Gospel which the Spirit of God has brought about by means
1794 2, 42 | subsequent duty to glorify God in his work. The Directory
1795 2, 43 | of reminding society of God's will in a realistic manner,
1796 2, 43 | service of this cause, so that God's mercy may triumph.~This
1797 2, 43 | Christians".73 I have thanked God "for what he has already
1798 2 | another through the Word of God and through divine worship~
1799 2, 44 | area, that of the Word of God. I am thinking above all
1800 2, 47 | shedding of their blood. For God is always wonderful in his
1801 2, 48 | enabled us to discover what God is bringing about in the
1802 2, 48 | other Christians bear to God and to Christ. A vast new
1803 2, 50 | Churches, the Church of God is built up and grows in
1804 2, 56 | cooperation. With the grace of God a great effort must be made
1805 2, 57 | in legitimate diversity: "God has granted us to receive
1806 2, 57 | participating in the gifts of God to his Church we are brought
1807 2, 59 | the unity of the people of God".98 These are important
1808 2, 59(98) | the Unity of the People of God" (26 June 1988),1: Information
1809 2, 60 | these terms: "While thanking God that many Eastern sons of
1810 2, 62 | faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Pope Paul
1811 2, 66 | confess Jesus Christ as God and Lord and as the sole
1812 2, 66 | the sole Mediator between God and man unto the glory of
1813 2, 66 | unto the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit".114~
1814 2, 66 | these Sacred Scriptures God as he speaks to them in
1815 2, 66 | whom the prophets foretold, God's Word made flesh for us.
1816 2, 66 | proclamation of the written word of God".116 Even so, "in 1 dialogue
1817 2, 66 | instruments in the mighty hand of God for attaining that unity
1818 2, 68 | Baptism and the hearing of God's Word. This way of life
1819 2, 68 | Communities assembled to praise God. Furthermore, their worship
1820 2, 74 | received from the hands of God. Joined to it are a lively
1821 2, 76 | Gospel and with the coming of God's Kingdom.~
1822 3, 78 | concept of the unity willed by God. The orientation towards
1823 3, 79 | interpretation of the Word of God; 2) the Eucharist, as the
1824 3, 79 | Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church,
1825 3, 80 | involve the whole People of God. We are in fact dealing
1826 3, 82 | which takes place before God, each individual must recognize
1827 3, 82 | koinonia must be forged before God and in Christ Jesus.~Only
1828 3, 82 | placing ourselves before God can offer a solid basis
1829 3, 84 | how, at a profound level, God preserves communion among
1830 3, 84 | is the sign and proof of God's victory over the forces
1831 3, 84 | full and visible communion, God will do for them what he
1832 3, 85 | 85. Since God in his infinite mercy can
1833 3, 85 | embellish the koinonia. God's grace will be with all
1834 3, 87 | fullness in accordance with God's plan (cf. Eph 4:11-13).
1835 3, 88 | the Bishop of Rome, whom God established as her "perpetual
1836 3, 89(148) | Confessing the One Faith to God's Glory, 31, 2, Faith and
1837 3, 92 | in the manifold mercy of God. This mercy converts hearts
1838 3, 92 | completely at the service of God's merciful plan and it must
1839 3, 93 | transparency.~The Church of God is called by Christ to manifest
1840 3, 93 | that, despite everything, God in his mercy can convert
1841 3, 95 | Communities in which, by virtue of God's faithfulness, his Spirit
1842 3, 97 | the Bishop of Rome, is—in God's plan—an essential requisite
1843 3, 99 | matter of the love which God has in Jesus Christ for
1844 Exh, 101 | are asked by the Spirit of God to do everything possible
1845 Exh, 102 | 102. The power of God's Spirit gives growth and
1846 Exh, 102 | 26), disposing us to ask God for what we need.~How is
1847 Exh, 102 | of Nazareth heard: with God nothing is impossible.~I
1848 Exh, 102 | prayer of every Christian: "God does not accept the sacrifice
1849 Exh, 102 | reconciled with his brother. For God can be appeased only by
1850 Exh, 102 | prayers that make peace. To God, the better offering is
1851 Exh, 103 | live in harmony, and the God of love and peace will be
1852 Exh, 103 | Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the
Veritatis splendor
Chap., §
1853 Bles | the image and likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:26). Truth enlightens
1854 Int, 1 | from the living and true God in order to direct it towards
1855 Int, 1 | exchanging "the truth about God for a lie" ( 1:25). Man'
1856 Int, 1 | away from man the light of God the Creator. In the depths
1857 Int, 2 | Ps 4:6). ~The light of God's face shines in all its
1858 Int, 2 | the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), the "reflection
1859 Int, 2 | 15), the "reflection of God's glory" (Heb 1:3), "full
1860 Int, 2 | Church, as the People of God among the nations,3 while
1861 Int, 3 | Christ and his Gospel or God himself. She knows that
1862 Int, 3 | Church, yet who search for God with a sincere heart and
1863 Int, 3 | into effect the will of God as known to them through
1864 Int, 3 | the express recognition of God, yet who strive, not without
1865 Int, 4 | do the commandments of God, which are written on the
1866 Int, 4 | Is it possible to obey God and thus love God and neighbour,
1867 Int, 4 | to obey God and thus love God and neighbour, without respecting
1868 Int, 5 | life of the "children of God": "Recognizing in the faith
1869 1, 7 | the echo of a call from God who is the origin and goal
1870 1, 7 | encounter" with Christ possible, God willed his Church. Indeed,
1871 1, 8 | fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
1872 1, 8 | not only of adoration of God but also of deeper wonder
1873 1, 9 | good? No one is good but God alone" (Mk 10:18; cf. Lk
1874 1, 9 | good: "No one is good but God alone" (Mk 10:18; cf. Lk
1875 1, 9 | 18; cf. Lk 18:19). Only God can answer the question
1876 1, 9 | ultimately means to turn towards God, the fullness of goodness.
1877 1, 9 | obliges man has its source in God, and indeed is God himself.
1878 1, 9 | source in God, and indeed is God himself. God alone is worthy
1879 1, 9 | and indeed is God himself. God alone is worthy of being
1880 1, 9 | to the acknowledgment of God, who alone is goodness,
1881 1, 10 | live "for the praise of God's glory" (cf. Eph 1:12),
1882 1, 10 | that you are the image of God", writes Saint Ambrose. "
1883 1, 10 | that you are the glory of God (1 Cor 11:7). Hear how you
1884 1, 10 | becomes clear as soon as God reveals himself. The Decalogue
1885 1, 10 | words: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
1886 1, 10 | Israel, and in the whole Law, God makes himself known and
1887 1, 10 | holy; for I the Lord your God am holy" (Lev 19:2); as
1888 1, 10 | among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people" (
1889 1, 10 | gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man. It
1890 1, 10 | O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall
1891 1, 10 | shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
1892 1, 10 | in the gratuitousness of God's love, is called to reflect
1893 1, 10 | For the one who loves God it is enough to be pleasing
1894 1, 10 | itself; charity in fact is of God in such a way that God himself
1895 1, 10 | of God in such a way that God himself is charity".18 ~
1896 1, 11 | calls us to acknowledge God as the one Lord of all and
1897 1, 11 | The good is belonging to God, obeying him, walking humbly
1898 1, 11 | Acknowledging the Lord as God is the very core, the heart
1899 1, 11 | is made evident, because God alone is the One who is
1900 1, 11 | with a lively perception of God's absolute holiness: "Holy,
1901 1, 11 | hosts" (Is 6:3). ~But if God alone is the Good, no human
1902 1, 11 | acknowledging the Lord as God and rendering him the worship
1903 1, 11 | come only from a gift of God: the offer of a share in
1904 1, 12 | 12. Only God can answer the question
1905 1, 12 | because he is the Good. But God has already given an answer
1906 1, 12 | understanding infused in us by God, whereby we understand what
1907 1, 12 | and what must be avoided. God gave this light and this
1908 1, 12 | new spirit", the Spirit of God (cf. Ez 36:24-28).20 ~Consequently,
1909 1, 12 | eternal life and obedience to God's commandments: God's commandments
1910 1, 12 | obedience to God's commandments: God's commandments show man
1911 1, 12 | the Decalogue entrusted by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.
1912 1, 12 | participation in the very life of God. It is attained in its perfection
1913 1, 13 | show that he acknowledges God's holiness. After directing
1914 1, 13 | young man's gaze towards God, Jesus reminds him of the
1915 1, 13 | words "I am the Lord your God" mean for man. Nevertheless
1916 1, 13 | the only creature that God has wanted for its own sake".21
1917 1, 13 | being in relationship with God, with his neighbour and
1918 1, 13 | Commandments are part of God's Revelation. At the same
1919 1, 13 | the person, the image of God, by protecting his goods. "
1920 1, 14 | apart from, the love of God. This is evident from his
1921 1, 14 | commandments of love of God and love of neighbour (cf.
1922 1, 14 | commandments, genuine love for God is not possible. Saint John
1923 1, 14 | If anyone says, 'I love God', and hates his brother,
1924 1, 14 | he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen" (Jn
1925 1, 15 | truth".25 ~Jesus brings God's commandments to fulfilment,
1926 1, 16 | the demands contained in God's Law. And yet, even though
1927 1, 17 | wish to be perfect") and God's gift of grace ("Come,
1928 1, 17 | divine law. Human freedom and God's law are not in opposition;
1929 1, 17 | extent to which we serve God we are free, while to the
1930 1, 18 | by the flesh" experience God's law as a burden, and indeed
1931 1, 18 | to serve others, find in God's Law the fundamental and
1932 1, 18 | freedom of the children of God (cf. Rom 8:21) and thus
1933 1, 18 | the commandment of love of God. Both the commandments and
1934 1, 18 | perfection whose measure is God alone: "You, therefore,
1935 1, 19 | people of Israel followed God who led them through the
1936 1, 19 | truly becomes a disciple of God (cf. Jn 6:45). Jesus is
1937 1, 19 | the image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), means to imitate
1938 1, 20 | brethren out of love for God: "This is my commandment,
1939 1, 21 | Rom 6:3-11): alive for God in Christ Jesus, they are
1940 1 | With God all things are possible" (
1941 1, 22 | the Master refers them to God's power: "With men this
1942 1, 22 | is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (
1943 1, 22 | authoritative than the Law of Moses: God's original plan for mankind,
1944 1, 22 | possibility opened up to man by God's grace. "He said to them: '
1945 1, 22 | Gal 5:22) is charity: "God's love has been poured into
1946 1, 23 | it possible to carry out God's commandments. Indeed,
1947 1, 23 | the result of a gift of God who heals, restores and
1948 1, 24 | by grace, by the gift of God, by his love. On the other
1949 1, 24 | Jesus Christ the love of God, generates and sustains
1950 1, 24 | response of a full love for God and the brethren, as the
1951 1, 24 | another; for love is of God and knows God. He who does
1952 1, 24 | love is of God and knows God. He who does not love does
1953 1, 24 | does not love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved,
1954 1, 24 | love does not know God; for God is love... Beloved, if God
1955 1, 24 | God is love... Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
1956 1, 25 | The Teacher who expounds God's commandments, who invites
1957 1, 25 | moral prescriptions which God imparted in the Old Covenant,
1958 1, 25 | very person of the Son of God made man, must be faithfully
1959 1, 27 | the "great things" which God has done in history (cf.
1960 1, 27 | the faithful expression of God's wisdom and will. ~Within
1961 1, 27 | interpreting the word of God, whether in its written
1962 2, 28 | man and his activity to God, the One who "alone is good";
1963 2, 28 | preserved what the word of God teaches, not only about
1964 2, 28 | action, action pleasing to God (cf. 1 Th 4:1); she has
1965 2, 29 | faithfully expound" the word of God,48 the Magisterium has the
1966 2, 30 | to the truth contained in God's law? what is the role
1967 2, 30 | charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who
1968 2, 31 | creature and the image of God, and thus need to be corrected
1969 2, 34 | divine image in man. For God willed to leave man "in
1970 2, 34 | perfection by cleaving to God".57 Although each individual
1971 2, 35 | Genesis we read: "The Lord God commanded the man, saying, '
1972 2, 35 | not belong to man, but to God alone. The man is certainly
1973 2, 35 | can understand and accept God's commands. And he possesses
1974 2, 35 | accept the moral law given by God. In fact, human freedom
1975 2, 35 | acceptance of that law. God, who alone is good, knows
1976 2, 35 | man in the commandments. ~God's law does not reduce, much
1977 2, 36 | reason. In no way could God be considered the Author
1978 2, 36 | mandate given to man by God. These trends of thought
1979 2, 36 | the natural moral law has God as its author, and that
1980 2, 37 | interior attitudes regarding God and neighbour would be significant.
1981 2, 37 | and permanent. The word of God would be limited to proposing
1982 2, 37 | the light of the word of God and the living Tradition
1983 2 | God left man in the power of
1984 2, 38 | the divine image" in man: "God willed to leave man in the
1985 2, 38 | perfection by cleaving to God".64 These words indicate
1986 2, 38 | depth of the sharing in God's dominion to which man
1987 2, 39 | care and responsibility. God left man "in the power of
1988 2, 39 | himself his likeness to God. ~Even so, the Council warns
1989 2, 39 | things are not dependent on God and that man can use them
1990 2, 39 | simply disappears... If God is ignored the creature
1991 2, 40 | moral law has its origin in God and always finds its source
1992 2, 40 | understanding infused in us by God, whereby we understand what
1993 2, 40 | and what must be avoided. God gave this light and this
1994 2, 41 | acceptance of the moral law, of God's command: "The Lord God
1995 2, 41 | God's command: "The Lord God gave this command to the
1996 2, 41 | 2:16). Human freedom and God's law meet and are called
1997 2, 41 | man's free obedience to God and of God's completely
1998 2, 41 | obedience to God and of God's completely gratuitous
1999 2, 41 | man. Hence obedience to God is not, as some would believe,
2000 2, 41 | man's free obedience to God's law effectively implies
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