Category: Catechism

CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “Saint John Paul II’s Christological Catechesis” – VaticanVa

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“1.Catechesis as contemplation of the mystery of Christ:
From 7th January 1987 to 19th April 1989 the Holy Father John Paul II gave extensive catechesis on the second article of the Creed: “I believe in Jesus Christ”. It consists of 85 chapters of a Christological itinerary divided into eight stages:
a. Jesus Christ in the Old and New Testaments (1-13);
Christ Breaking Bread, Photograph of Painting, adapted from image at loc.gov with credit to Detroit Publishing Co.b. Jesus Christ Son of God (14-33);
c. Miracles as “signs” of Jesus’ divinity (34-40);
d. Jesus Christ man among men (41-44);
e. The Church’s faith in Jesus Christ (45-49);
f. Jesus Christ’s mission (50-64);
g. Jesus Christ’s sacrifice (65-76);
h. Jesus Christ’s Resurrection and glorification (77-85). …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “John, precursor, prophet, and baptist” – Cathechism of the Catholic Church (1992)

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“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”89 John was “filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb”90 by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people.91
718 John is “Elijah (who) must come.”92 The fire of the Spirit dwells in him and makes him the forerunner of the coming Lord. In John, the precursor, the Holy Spirit completes the work of “[making] ready a people prepared for the Lord.”93
719 John the Baptist is “more than a prophet.”94 In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah.95 He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the “voice” of the Consoler who is coming.96 As the Spirit of truth will also do, John “came to bear witness to the light.”97 In John’s sight, the Spirit thus brings to completion the careful search of the prophets and fulfills the longing of the angels.98 “He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. and I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God…. Behold, the Lamb of God.”99

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST” – Catechism of the Catholic Church/ VaticanVa

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“… 1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”136 “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”137

1325 “The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.”138

1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all. …”

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CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT” – Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)/ VaticanVa

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“… The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith”.56 The whole history of salvation is identical with the history of the way and the means by which the one true God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, reveals himself to men “and reconciles and unites with himself those who turn away from sin”…. ”

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