Catechism index

621 Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. 392 Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation. Beforehand, during the Last Supper, he both symbolized this offering and made it really present: "This is my body which is given for you" (Lk …
622 Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. 392 The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), that is, he "loved [his own] to the end" (Jn …
623 Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. 392 By his loving obedience to the Father, "unto death, even death on a cross" (Phil 2:8), Jesus fulfils the atoning mission (cf Is 53:10) of the suffering Servant, who will "make many …
624 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED "By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one". 459 In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only "die for our sins" 460 but should …
625 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. the same person of the "Living One" can say, "I …
626 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED Since the "Author of life" who was killed 467 is the same "living one [who has] risen", 468 The divine person of the Son of God necessarily continued to possess his human …
627 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union his body retained with the person of the Son, his …
628 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED Baptism, the original and full sign of which is immersion, efficaciously signifies the descent into the tomb by the Christian who dies to sin with Christ in order to live a new …
629 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED To the benefit of every man, Jesus Christ tasted death (cf Heb 2:9). It is truly the Son of God made man who died and was buried.
630 Paragraph 3. JESUS CHRIST WAS BURIED During Christ's period in the tomb, his divine person continued to assume both his soul and his body, although they were separated from each other by death. For this reason the dead …
631 "HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN" Jesus "descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens." 475 The Apostles' Creed confesses in the same article Christ's …
632 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection. 477 This was the …
633 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of …
634 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL "The gospel was preached even to the dead." 483 The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a …
635 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." 484 Jesus, "the Author of …
636 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL By the expression "He descended into hell", the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil "who has the power of …
637 Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him.
638 Paragraph 2. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD "We bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus." 488 The Resurrection of Jesus is the …
639 To the dead, he has given life. 489 The mystery of Christ's resurrection is a real event, with manifestations that were historically verified, as the New Testament bears witness. In about A.D. 56 St. Paul could already write to the …
640 To the dead, he has given life. 489 "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." 492 The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events is the empty …