Tag: Jesus Christ
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A Chosen Race, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation
The Mystical Body of Christ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 Peter 2, 9 1 Peter Chapter 1 is set against the backdrop of the early…
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All Have Sinned
RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they…
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All of Us Are Being Transformed
JUSTIFICATION All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.2 Corinthians 3, 18 Therefore, we are not discouraged; instead, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed…
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A Witness With Us
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.” So they proposed…
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Be Filled with the Knowledge of His Will
SUPERNATURAL MERIT May you be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit (merit) and growing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his…
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Be Subject to One Another
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as…
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Born of a Woman
MOTHER OF GOD But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son,born of a woman, born under the law,Galatians 4, 4 Since apostolic time, Catholics have believed and the Church has taught that the Blessed Virgin Mary is truly the Mother of God or, in ancient Greek, Theotokos which means “God-bearer.” This honorable designation…
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But Only as through Fire
PURGATORY According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is…
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By Water and Blood
The Incarnation This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. There are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three…
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Children of God
DIVINE ADOPTION See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We…
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