Catechism index

2006 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 The term "merit" refers in general to the recompense owed by a community or a society for the action of one of its members, experienced either as beneficial or harmful, deserving reward …
2007 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 With regard to God, there is no strict right to any merit on the part of man. Between God and us there is an immeasurable inequality, for we have received everything from …
2008 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 The merit of man before God in the Christian life arises from the fact that God has freely chosen to associate man with the work of his grace. the fatherly action of …
2009 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 Filial adoption, in making us partakers by grace in the divine nature, can bestow true merit on us as a result of God's gratuitous justice. This is our right by grace, the …
2010 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 Since the initiative belongs to God in the order of grace, no one can merit the initial grace of forgiveness and justification, at the beginning of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit …
2011 You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts. 59 The charity of Christ is the source in us of all our merits before God. Grace, by uniting us to Christ in active love, ensures the supernatural quality of our acts and …
2012 IV. Christian Holiness "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him . . . For those whom he fore knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image …
2013 IV. Christian Holiness "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity." 65 All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as …
2014 IV. Christian Holiness Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called "mystical" because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments - "the holy mysteries" - and, …
2015 IV. Christian Holiness The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. 68 Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living …
2016 He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows. 69 The children of our holy mother the Church rightly hope for the grace of final perseverance and the recompense of God their Father for the good works accomplished with his grace in …
2017 IN BRIEF The grace of the Holy Spirit confers upon us the righteousness of God. Uniting us by faith and Baptism to the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, the Spirit makes us sharers in …
2018 IN BRIEF Like conversion, justification has two aspects. Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, and so accepts forgiveness and righteousness from on high.
2019 IN BRIEF Justification includes the remission of sins, sanctification, and the renewal of the inner man.
2020 IN BRIEF Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ. It is granted us through Baptism. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who justifies us. It has for its …
2021 IN BRIEF Grace is the help God gives us to respond to our vocation of becoming his adopted sons. It introduces us into the intimacy of the Trinitarian life.
2022 IN BRIEF The divine initiative in the work of grace precedes, prepares, and elicits the free response of man. Grace responds to the deepest yearnings of human freedom, calls freedom to cooperate with it, …
2023 IN BRIEF Sanctifying grace is the gratuitous gift of his life that God makes to us; it is infused by the Holy Spirit into the soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify …
2024 IN BRIEF Sanctifying grace makes us "pleasing to God." Charisms, special graces of the Holy Spirit, are oriented to sanctifying grace and are intended for the common good of the Church. God also acts …
2025 IN BRIEF We can have merit in God's sight only because of God's free plan to associate man with the work of his grace. Merit is to be ascribed in the first place to …