Tag: Sanctification
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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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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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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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Faith Without Works Is Dead
JUSTIFICATION What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do…
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Faith Working Through Love
Justification & Sanctification You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ;you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faiththe righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcisionnor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faithexpressing itself…
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Put On the New Self
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION Create a clean heart in me, O God:and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy face;and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.Psalm 50, 12-14 You should put away the old self of your former…
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Set Your Mind on Things Above
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above,where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above,not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ who is our life appears, then…
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That We Might Be Justified by His Grace
SANCTIFICATION & JUSTIFICATION But when the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared,not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy,he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,whom he richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior, so thatwe might…
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We Are the Aroma of Christ
SALVATION “For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.2 Corinthians 2, 15 In the Catholic context, 2 Corinthians 2:15, which states, “for we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved,” can be understood as deeply connected…
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