Catechism index

601 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 Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that …
602 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 Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers... with the precious blood …
603 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 did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned. 405 But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our …
604 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 giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "In this is love, …
605 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 At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that …
606 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 Son of God, who came down "from heaven, not to do (his) own will, but the will of him who sent (him)", 413 said on coming into the world, "Lo, I …
607 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 desire to embrace his Father's plan of redeeming love inspired Jesus' whole life, 418 for his redemptive passion was the very reason for his Incarnation. and so he asked, "and what …
608 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 After agreeing to baptize him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed him out as the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world". …
609 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 embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life …
610 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 gave the supreme expression of his free offering of himself at the meal shared with the twelve Apostles "on the night he was betrayed". 429 On the eve of his Passion, …
611 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 Eucharist that Christ institutes at that moment will be the memorial of his sacrifice. 431 Jesus includes the apostles in his own offering and bids them perpetuate it. 432 By doing …
612 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 cup of the New Covenant, which Jesus anticipated when he offered himself at the Last Supper, is afterwards accepted by him from his Father's hands in his agony in the garden …
613 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 Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world", 439 and the sacrifice of …
614 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 This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices. 441 First, it is a gift from God the Father himself, for the Father handed his Son over to …
615 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 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous." 443 By his obedience unto death, Jesus accomplished the substitution of the …
616 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 It is love "to the end" 446 that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his …
617 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 Council of Trent emphasizes the unique character of Christ's sacrifice as "the source of eternal salvation" 449 and teaches that "his most holy Passion on the wood of the cross merited …
618 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 cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the "one mediator between God and men". 452 But because in his incarnate divine person he has in some way united himself to every …
619 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 "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures" (I Cor 15:3).
620 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 Our salvation flows from God's initiative of love for us, because "he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins" (I Jn 4:10). "God was in Christ …