APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION FIDEI DEPOSITUM 

1. John XXIII, Discourse at the Opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, October 11,1962: AAS 54 (1962) pp. 788-91.
2. Paul VI, Discourse at the Closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, December 7,1965: AAS 58 (1966) pp. 7-8.
3. John Paul II, Discourse of January 25,1985: L'Osservatore Romano, January 27, 1985.
4. Final Report of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, December 7, 1985, Enchiridion Vaticanum, vol. 9, II, B, a, n. 4: p. 1758, n. 1797.
5. John Paul II, Discourse at the Closing of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, December 7, 1985, n. 6: AAS 78 (1986) p. 435. 

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - PROLOGUE 

1. Jn 17 3.
2. 1 Tim 2:3-4.
3. Acts 4:12.
4. Mt 28:19-20.
5. Mk 16:20.
6. Cf. Acts 2:42.
7. Cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi tradendae 1; 2.
8. CT 18.
9. CT 18.
10. CT 13.
11. Cf. CT 12.
12. CT 13.
13. Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 1985,. Final Report II B a, 4.
14. John Paul II, Discourse at the Closing Of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 7 December 1985: AAS 78, (1986).
15. Extraordinary Synod of Bishops 1985, Final Report II B a, 4.
16. Cf. Mt 10:32; Rom 10:9.
17. Cf. CT 20-22; 25.
18. Roman Catechism, Preface II; cf. 1 Cor 9:22; I Pt 2:2.
19. Roman Catechism, Preface 10; cf. 1 Cor 13 8. 


PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION ONE: "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"

CHAPTER ONE: MANšS CAPACITY FOR GOD 

1. Vatican Council II, GS 19 # 1.
2. Acts 17:26-28.
3. GS 19 # 1.
4. Cf. GS 19-21; Mt 13:22; Gen 3:8-10; Jon 1:3.
5. Ps 105:3.
6. St. Augustine, Conf. I, I, I: PL 32, 659-661.
7. Rom 1:19-20; cf., Acts 14:15, 17; 17:27-28; Wis 13:1-9.
8. St. Augustine, Sermo 241, 2: PL 38, 1134,
9. GS 18 # 1; cf. 14 # 2.
10. St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th I, 2, 3.
11. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius 2: DS 3004 cf. 3026; Vatican Council II, Dei Verbum 6.
12. Cf. Gen 1:27.
13. Pius XII, Humani generis 561: DS 3875.
14. Pius XII, Humani generis 561: DS 3876; cf. Dei Filius 2: DS 3005; DV 6; St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th I, I, I.
15. Wis 13:5.
16. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Anaphora.
17. Lateran Council IV: DS 806.
18. St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG 1, 30. 


CHAPTER TWO - GOD COMES TO MEET MAN

1. Cf. Dei Filius DS 3015.
2. DV 2; cf. Eph 1:9; 2:18; 2 Pet 1:4.
3. 1 Tim 6:16, cf. Eph 1:4-5.
4. DV 2.
5. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 20, 2: PG 7/1, 944; cf. 3, 17, 1; 4, 12, 4; 4, 21, 3.
6. DV 3; cf. Jn 1:3; Rom 1:19-20.
7. DV 3; cf. Gen 3:15; Rom 2:6-7.
8. Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118.
9. Gen 10:5; cf. 9:9-10, 16; 10:20-31.
10. Cf. Acts 17:26-27.
11. Cf. Wis 10:5; Gen 11:4-6.
12. Cf. Rom 1:18-25.
13. Cf. Gen 9:16; Lk 21:24; DV 3.
14. Cf. Gen 14:18; Heb 7:3; Ezek 14:14.
15. Jn 11:52.
16. Gen 12:1.
17. Gen 17:5; 12:3 ( LXX); cf. Gal 3:8
18. Cf. Rom 11:28; Jn 11:52; 10:16.
19. Cf. Rom 11:17-18, 24.
20. Cf. DV 3.
21. Dt 28: 10; Roman Missal, Good Friday, General Intercession VI; see also Ex 19:6.
22. Cf. Is 2:2-4; Jer 31:31-34; Heb 10:16.
23. Cf. Ezek 36; Is 49:5-6; 53:11.
24. Cf. Ezek 2:3; Lk 1:38.
25. DV 2.
26. Heb 1:1-2.
27. St. John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mount Carmel 2, 22, 3-5 in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, tr. K. Kavanaugh OCD and O.
Rodriguez OCD (Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979), 179-180: LH, Advent, week 2, Monday, OR.
28. DV 4; cf. 1 Tim 6:14; Titus 2:13.
29. 1 Tim 2:4.
30. cf. Jn 14:6.
31. DV 7; cf. 2 Cor 1:20; 3:16 - 4:6.
32. DV 7; cf. Mt 28:19-20; Mk 16:15.
33. DV 7.
34. DV 7.
35. DV 7 # 2; St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 3, 1: PG 7/1, 848; Harvey, 2, 9.
36. DV 8 # 1.
37. DV 8 # 1.
38. DV 8 # 3.
39. DV 8 # 3; cf. Col 3:16.
40. DV 9.
41. Mt 28:20.
42. DV 9.
43. DV 9.
44. DV 9.
45. DV 10 # 1; cf. 1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 1:12-14 (Vulg.).
46. DV 10 # 1; cf. Acts 2:42 (Greek); Pius XII, Apost. Const. Munificentissimus Deus, 1 November 1950: AAS 42 (1950), 756, taken along with the
words of St. Cyprian, Epist. 66, 8: CSEL 3/2, 733: "The Church is the people united to its Priests, the flock adhering to its Shepherd."
47. DV 10 # 2.
48. DV 10 para 2.
49. Lk 10:16; cf. LG 20.
50. Cf. Jn 8:31-32.
51. Cf. Vatican Council I: DS 3016: nexus mysteriorum; LC 25.
52. UR II.
53. Cf. 1 Jn 2:20, 27.
54. Cf..Jn 16:13.
55. LG 12; cf. St. Augustine, De praed. sanct. 14, 27: PL 44, 980.
56. LG 12; cf. Jude 3.
57. DV 8 # 2; cf. Lk 2:19, 51.
58. GS 62 # 7; cf. GS 44 # 2; DV 23; 24; UR 4.
59. DV 8 # 2.
60. DV 8 # 2.
61. St. Gregory the Great, Hom. in Ezek. 1, 7, 8: PL 76, 843D.
62. DV 10 # 3.
63. DV 13.
64. Cf. Heb 1:1-3.
65. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103, 4, 1: PL 37, 1378; cf. Ps 104; Jn 1:1.
66. Cf. DV 21.
67. Th 2:13; cf. DV 24.
68. DV 21.
69. DV 11;
70. DV 11; cf. Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:19-21; 3:15-16.
71. DV 11.
72. DV 11.
73. St. Bernard, S. missus est hom. 4, 11: PL 183, 86.
74. Cf. Lk 24:45.
75. Cf. DV 12 # 1.
76. DV 12 # 2.
77. DV 12 # 3.
78. Cf. DV 12 # 4.
79. Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-46.
80. St. Thomas Aquinas, Expos. in Ps. 21, 11; cf. Ps 22:14.
81. Origen, Hom. in Lev 5, 5: PG 12, 454D.
82. Cf. Rom 12:6.
83. St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th I, 1, 10, ad I.
84. Cf. 1 Cor 10:2.
85. 1 Cor 10:11; cf. Heb 3:1 -4:11.
86. Cf. Rev 21:1 - 22:5.
87. Lettera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria, moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia. Augustine of Dacia, Rotulus pugillaris, 1: ed. A. Walz: Angelicum 6
(1929) 256.
88. DV 12 # 3.
89. St. Augustine, Contra epistolam Manichaei 5, 6: PL 42, 176.
90. Cf. DV 8 # 3.
91. Cf. DS 179; 1334-1336; 1501-1504.
92. Cf. DV 14.
93. DV 15.
94. DV 15.
95. DV 15.
96. DV 17; cf. Rom 1:16.
97. Cf. DV 20.
98. DV 18.
99. DV 19; cf. Acts 1:1-2.
100. DV 19.
101. DV 19.
102. St. Caesaria the Younger to St. Richildis and St. Radegunde: SCh 345, 480.
103. St. Therese of Lisieux, Autobiography of a Saint, tr. Ronald Knox (London: Collins, 1960), 175.
104. Cf. 1 Cor 10:6, 11; Heb 10:l; l Pt 3:21.
105. Cf. Mk 12:29-31
106. Cf. 1 Cor 5:6-8; 10:1-11.
107. Cf. St. Augustine, Quaest. in Hept. 2, 73: PL 34,623; Cf. DU 16.
108. 1 Cor 15:28.
109. DV 21.
110. DV 22.
111. DV 24.
112. DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8 and St. Jerome, Commentariorum in Isaiam libri xviii prol.: PL 24, 17B. 


CHAPTER THREE - MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD

1. DV 2; cf. Col 1:15; 1 Tim 1:17; Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-15; Bar 3:38 (Vulg.).
2. Cf. DV 5.
3. Cf. Rom 1:5; 16:26.
4. Heb 11:8; cf. Gen 12:1-4.
5. Cf. Gen 23:4.
6. Cf. Heb 11:17.
7. Heb 11:1.
8. Rom 4:3; cf. Gen 15:6.
9. Rom 4:11, 18; 4:20; cf. Gen 15:5.
10. Heb 11:2, 39.
11. Heb 11:40; 12:2.
12. Lk 1:37-38; cf. Gen 18:14.
13. Lk 1:45.
14. Cf. Lk 1:48.
15. Cf. Lk 2:35.
16. 2 Tim 1:12.
17. Cf. Jer 17:5-6; Pss 40:5; 146:3-4.
18. Mk 1:11; cf. 9:7
19. Jn 14:1.
20. Jn 1:18.
21. Jn 6:46; cf. Mt 11:27.
22. 1 Cor 12:3.
23. 1 Cor 2:10-11.
24. Mt 16:17; cf. Gal 1:15; Mt 11:25.
25. DV 5; cf. DS 377; 3010.
26. Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008.
27. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 2, 9; cf Dei Filius 3; DS 3010.
28. Dei Filius: 3 DS 3008.
29. Dei Filius: 3 DS 3009.
30. Dei Filius: 3: DS 3008-3010; Cf. Mk 16 20; Heb 2:4.
31. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II 171, 5, obj. 3.
32. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro vita sua (London Longman, 1878) 239.
33. St. Anselm, Prosl. prooem. PL 153 225A.
34. Eph 1:18.
35. DV 5.
36. St. Augustine, Sermo 43, 7, 9: PL 38, 257-258.
37. Dei Filius 4: DS 3017.
38. GS 36 # 1.
39. DH 10; cf. CIC, can. 748 # 2.
40. DH 11.
41. DH 11; cf. Jn 18:37; 12:32.
42. Cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:36; 6:40 et al.
43. Dei Filius 3: DS 3012; cf. Mt 10:22; 24: 13 and Heb 11:6; Council of Trent: DS 1532.
44. 1 Tim 1:18-19.
45. Cf. Mk 9:24; Lk 17:5; 22:32
46. Gal 5:6; Rom 15:13; cf. Jas 2:14-26.
47. 1 Cor 13:12; 1 Jn 3:2.
48. St. Basil De Spiritu Sancto 15, 36: PG 32, 132; cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 4, 1.
49. 2 Cor 5:7.
50. l Cor 13:12.
51. Rom 4:18.
52. LG 58; John Paul II, RMat 18.
53. Heb 12:1-2. Article 2
54. Roman Ritual, Rite of Baptism of Adults.
55. Faustus of Riez, De Spiritu Sancto 1, 2: PL 62, II.
56. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 1,2, ad 2.
57. 1 Tim 3:15; Jude 3.
58. Cf. Eph 4:4-6.
59. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. I, 10, 1-2: PG 7/1, 549-552.
60. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. I, 10, 1-2: PG 7/1, 552-553.
61. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 5, 20, I: PG 7/2, 1177.
62. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 24, I: PG 7/1, 966. 


SECTION TWO: THE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

1. Cf. Rom 10:9; 1 Cor 15:3-5, etc.
2. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. illum. 5, 12: PG 33, 521-524.
3. Mt 28:19.
4. Roman Catechism I, 1, 3.
5. St. Irenaeus, Dem. ap. 100: SCh 62, 170.
6. Roman Catechism I, I, 4.
7. Cf. St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. 8: PL 17, 1196.
8. Cf. DS 1-64.
9. Cf. DS 75-76.
10. Cf. DS 525-541; 800-802; 851-861; 1862-1870.
11. Cf. DS 71-72.
12. Paul VI, CPG (1968).
13. St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. 7: PL 17, 1196.
14. Rom 6:17.
15. St. Ambrose, Expl. symb. I: PL 17, 1193. 


CHAPTER ONE: I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER

1. Cf. Is 44:6.
2. Roman Catechism I, 2, 2.
3. Roman Catechism I, 2, 2.
4. Dt 6:45.
5. Is 45:22-24; cf. Phil 2:10-11.
6. Mk 12:29-30
7. Cf. Mk 12:35-37.
8. Lateran Council IV: DS 800.
9. EX 3:6.
10. EX 3:13-15.
11. Cf. Is 45:15; Judg 13:18.
12. EX 3:6, 12.
13. Cf. EX 3:5-6.
14. Is 6:5.
15. Lk 5:8.
16. Hos 11:9.
17. 1 Jn 3:19-20.
18. Cf. Ex 32; 33: 12-17.
19. Ex 33:18-19.
20. Ex 34:5-6; cf. 34:9.
21. Ex 34:7.
22. Eph 2:4.
23. Jn 8:28 (Greek).
24. Cf. Is 44:6.
25. Ps 102:26-27.
26. Jas 1:17.
27. Ex 34:6.
28. Ps 138:2; cf. Ps 85:11.
29. 1 Jn 1:5; 4:8.
30. Ps 119:160.
31. 2 Sam 7:28.
32. Cf. Dt 7:9.
33. Cf Wis 13:1-9.
34. Cf Ps 115:15; Wis 7:17-21.
35. Mal 2:6.
36. Jn 18:37.
37. 1 Jn 5:20; cf. Jn 17:3.
38. Cf. Dt 4:37; 7:8; 10:15.
39. Cf. Is 43:1-7; Hos 2.
40. Jn 3:16; cf. Hos 11:1; Is 49:14-15; 62 :4-5; Ezek 16; Hos 11.
41. Is 54:8.
42. Is 54: 10; cf. 54:8.
43. Jer 31:3.
44. l Jn 4:8, 16.
45. Cf. 1 Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.
46. Job 36:26.
47. St. Joan of Arc.
48. 1 Cor 4:7.
49. Ps 116:12.
50. Gen 1:26.
51. St. Nicholas of Flue; cf. Mt 5:29-30; 16:24-26.
52. St. Teresa of Jesus, Poesias 30 in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. III, tr. K. Kavanaugh OCD and O. Rodriguez OCD (Washington
DC Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1985), 386 no. 9. tr. John Wall.
53. Mt 28:19.
54. St. Caesarius of Arles, Sermo 9, Exp. symb.: CCL 103, 47.
55. Cf. Profession of faith of Pope Vigilius I (552): DS 415.
56. GCD 43.
57. GCD 47.
58. Dei Filius 4: DS 3015.
59. Cf. Dt 32:6; Mal 2:10.
60. Ex 4:22.
61. Cf. 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 68:6.
62. Cf. Is 66:13; Ps 131:2.
63. Cf. Ps 27:10; Eph 3:14; Is 49:15.
64. Mt 11-27.
65. Jn 1:1; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3.
66. The English phrases "of one being" and "one in being" translate the Greek word homoousios, which was rendered in Latin by consubstantialis.
67. Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; cf. DS 150.
68. Cf. Gen 1:2; Nicene Creed ( DS 150); Jn 14:17, 26; 16:13.
69. Cf. Jn 14:26; 15:26; 16:14.
70. Cf. Jn 7:39.
71. Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150.
72. Council of Toledo VI (638): DS 490.
73. Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 527.
74. Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150.
75. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1300-1301.
76. Cf. Leo I, Quam laudabiliter (447): DS 284.
77. Jn 15:26; cf. AG 2.
78. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1302.
79. Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331.
80. Cf. Council of Lyons II(1274): DS 850.
81. 2 Cor 13:14; cf. 1 Cor 12:4 - 6; Eph 4:4-6.
82. Paul VI, CPG # 2.
83. Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 421.
84. Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 530:26.
85. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 804.
86. Fides Damasi: DS 71.
87. Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 530:25.
88. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 804.
89. Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 528.
90. Council of Florence (1442): DS 1330.
91. Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331.
92. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 41: PG 36,417.
93. LH, Hymn for Evening Prayer.
94. Eph 1:4-5, 9; Rom 8:15, 29.
95. 2 Tim 1:9-10.
96. Cf. AG 2-9.
97. Council of Florence (1442): DS 1331; cf. Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 421.
98. Council of Constantinople II: DS 421.
99. Cf. Jn 6:44; Rom 8:14.
100. Cf. Jn 17:21-23.
101. Jn 14:23.
102. Prayer of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.
103. Cf. Gen 1:1; Jn 1:3; Mt 6:9; 2 Cor 12:9; cf. 1 Cor 1:18.
104. Ps 115:3.
105. Gen 49:24; Is 1:24 etc.; Pss 24:8-10; 135 6.
106. Cf. Jer 27:5; 32:17; Lk 1:37.
107. Wis 11:21; cf. Esth 4:17b; Prov 21:1; Tob 13:2.
108. Wis 11:23.
109. 2 Cor 6:18; cf. Mt 6:32.
110. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 5, ad I.
111. 1 Cor 1:24-25.
112. Eph 1:19-22.
113. Cf. 2 Cor 12:9; Phil 4:13.
114. Lk 1:37, 49.
115. Roman Catechism I, 2, 13
116. Gen 1:1.
117. GCD 51.
118. Gen 1:1; cf. Rom 8:18-23.
119. Cf. Egeria, Peregrinatio at loca sancta 46: PLS 1, 1047; St. Augustine, De catechizantis rudibus 3, 5: PL 40, 256.
120. Cf. NA 2.
121. Wis 7: 17-22.
122. Cf. Vatican Council I, can. 2 # I: DS 3026.
123. Heb 11:3.
124. Cf. Acts 17:24-29; Rom 1:19-20.
125. Cf. Is 43:1; Pss 115:15; 124:8; 134:3.
126. Cf. Gen 15:5; Jer 33:19-26.
127. Cf. Is 44:24; Ps 104; Prov 8:22-31.
128. Gen 1:1.
129. Jn 1:1-3.
130. Col 1:16-17.
131. Cf. Nicene Creed: DS 150; Hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus; Byzantine Troparion of Pentecost Vespers, "O heavenly King, Consoler".
132. Cf. Pss 33 6; 104:30; Gen 1:2-3.
133. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 2, 30, 9; 4, 20, I: PG 7/1, 822, 1032.
134. Dei Filius, can. # 5: DS 3025.
135. St. Bonaventure, In II Sent. I, 2, 2, 1.
136. St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent. II, prol.
137. Dei Filius I: DS 3002; cf Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800.
138. Eph 1:5-6.
139. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 20, 7: PG 7/1, 1037.
140. AG 2; cf. 1 Cor 15:28.
141. Cf. Wis 9:9.
142. Rev 4:11.
143. Pss 104:24; 145:9.
144. Cf. Dei Filius, cann. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.
145. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.
146. St. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolycum II, 4: PG 6, 1052.
147. 2 Macc 7:22-21, 28.
148. Cf. Ps 51:12.
149. Rom 4:17.
150. Cf. Gen 1:3; 2 Cor 4:6.
151. Wis 11:20.
152. Col 1:15, Gen 1:26.
153. Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3.
154. Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31.
155. Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002.
156. Ps 8:1; cf. Sir 43:28.
157. Ps 145:3.
158. Acts 17:28.
159. St. Augustine, Conf: 3, 6, 11: PL 32, 688.
160. Wis 11:24-26.
161. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius I: DS 3003; cf. Wis 8:1; Heb 4:13.
162. Ps 115:3.
163. Rev 3:7.
164. Prov 19:21.
165. Cf. Is 10:5-15; 45:51; Dt 32:39; Sir 11:14.
166. Cf. Pss 22; 32; 35; 103; 138; et al.
167. Mt 6:31-33; cf 10:29-31.
168. Cf. Gen 1:26-28.
169. Cf. Col 1:24.
170. 1 Cor 3:9; I Th 3:2; Col 4:11.
171. Phil 2:13; cf. 1 Cor 12:6.
172. GS 36 # 3.
173. Cf. Mt 19:26; Jn 15:5; 14:13
174. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 6.
175. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, SCG III, 71.
176. Cf. St. Augustine, De libero arbitrio I, 1, 2: PL 32, 1221- 1223; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 79, 1.
177. St. Augustine, Enchiridion II, 3: PL 40, 236.
178. Gen 45:8; 50:20; cf. Tob 2:12 (Vulgate).
179. Cf. Rom 5:20.
180. Rom 8:28.
181. St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue IV, 138 "On Divine Providence".
182. The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More, ed. Elizabeth F. Rogers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), letter 206, lines 661-663.
183. Julian of Norwich, The Revelations of Divine Love, tr. James Walshe SJ (London: 1961), ch. 32, 99-100.
184. 1 Cor 13:12.
185. Cf. Gen 2:2.
186. Pss 115:16; 19:2; Mt 5:16.
187. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3002 and Paul VI, CPG # 8.
188. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103, 1, 15: PL 37, 1348.
189. Mt 18:10; Ps 103:20.
190. Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3891; Lk 20:36; Dan 10:9- 12.
191. Mt 25:31.
192. Col 1:16.
193. Heb 1:14.
194. Cf. Job 38:7 (where angels are called "sons of God"); Gen 3:24; 19; 21: 17; 22:11; Acts 7:53; Ex 23:20-23; Judg 13; 6:11-24; Is 6:6; 1 Kings 19:5.
195. Cf. Lk 1:11, 26.
196. Heb 1:6.
197. Lk 2:14.
198. Cf. Mt 1:20; 2:13,19; 4:11; 26:53; Mk 1:13; Lk 22:43; 2 Macc 10:29-30; 11:8.
199. Cf. Lk 2:8-14; Mk 16:5-7.
200. Cf. Acts 1:10-11; Mt 13:41; 24:31; Lk 12:8-9. The angels in the life of the Church
201. Cf. Acts 5:18-20; 8:26-29; 10:3-8; 12:6-11; 27:23-25.
202. Cf. Mt 18:10; Lk 16:22; Pss 34:7; 91:10-13; Job 33:23-24; Zech 1:12; Tob 12:12.
203. St. Basil, Adv. Eunomium III, I: PG 29, 656B.
204. Gen 1:l - 2:4.
205. Cf. DV 11.
206. LG 36 # 2.
207. Cf. St. Augustine, De Genesi adv. Man 1, 2, 4: PL 34, 175.
208. GS 36 # 1.
209. Cf. Ps 145:9.
210. Lk 12:6-7; Mt 12:12.
211. Cf. Gen 1-26.
212. St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Creatures.
213. Gen 2:1-3.
214. Cf. Heb 4:3-4; Jer 31:35-37; 33:19-26.
215. Cf. Gen 1:14.
216. St. Benedict, Regula 43, 3: PL 66, 675-676.
217. Cf. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 24, prayer after the first reading.
218. Gen 1:27.
219. GS 12 # 3.
220. GS 24 # 3.
221. St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue IV, 13 "On Divine Providence": LH, Sunday, week 19, OR.
222. Cf. GS 12 # 1; 24 # 3; 39 # 1.
223. St. John Chrysostom, In Gen. sermo 2, 1: PG 54, 587D-588A.
224. GS 22 # 1.
225. St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 117: PL 52, 520-521.
226. Acts 17:26; cf. Tob 8:6.
227. Pius XII. Enc. Summi pontificatus 3; cf. NA 1.
228. Pius XII Summi pontificatus 3.
229. Gen 2:7.
230. Cf. Mt 16:25-26; Jn 15:13; Acts 2:41.
231. Cf. Mt 10:28; 26:38; Jn 12:27; 2 Macc 6 30.
232. Cf. 1 Cor 6:19-20; 15:44-45.
233. GS 14 # 1; cf. Dan 3:57-80.
234. Cf. Council of Vienne (1312): DS 902.
235. Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3896; Paul VI, CPG # 8; Lateran Council V (1513): DS 1440.
236. 1 Th 5:23.
237. Cf. Council of Constantinople IV (870): DS 657.
238. Cf. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius: DS 3005; GS 22 # 5; Humani generis: DS 3891.
239. Cf. Jer 31:33; Dt 6:5; 29:3; Is 29:13; Ezek 36:26; Mt 6:21; Lk 8:15; Rom 5:5.
240. Cf. Gen 2:7, 22.
241. Cf. Is 49:14-15; 66: 13; Ps 131:2-3; Hos 11:1-4; Jer 3:4- 19.
242. Gen 2:18.
243. Gen 2:19-20.
244. Gen 2:23
245. Gen 2:24
246. Gen 1:28.
247. Cf. GS 50 # 1.
248. Gen 1:28.
249. Wis 11:24.
250. Cf. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511.
251. Cf. LG 2.
252. Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:16, 19.
253. Cf. Gen 2:25.
254. Cf. 1 Jn 2:16.
255. Cf. Gen 2:8.
256. Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19
257. St. Augustine, Conf. 7, 7, 11: PL 32, 739.
258. 2 Th 2:7; 1 Tim 3:16.
259. Cf. Rom 5:20.
260. Cf. Lk 11:21-22; Jn 16:11; 1 Jn 3:8.
261. Cf. Rom 5:12-21.
262. Jn 16:8.
263. Cf. 1 Cor 2:16.
264. Cf. GS 13 # 1.
265. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1513; Pius XII: DS 3897; Paul VI: AAS 58 (1966), 654.
266. Cf. Gen 3:1-5; Wis 2:24.
267. Cf. Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9.
268. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800.
269. Cf. 2 Pet 2:4.
270. Gen 3:5.
271. 1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44.
272. St. John Damascene, Defide orth. 2, 4: PG 94, 877.
273. Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11.
274. 1 Jn 3:8.
275. Rom 8:28.
276. Gen 2:17.
277. Gen 2:17.
278. Cf. Gen 3:1-11; Rom 5:19.
279. St. Maximus the Confessor, Ambigua: PG 91, 1156C; cf. Gen 3:5.
280. Cf. Rom 3:23.
281. Cf. Gen 3:5-10.
282. Cf. Gen 3:7-16.
283. Cf. Gen 3:17, 19.
284. Rom 8:21.
285. Gen 3:19; cf. 2:17.
286. Cf. Rom 5:12.
287. Cf. Gen 4:3-15; 6:5, 12; Rom 1:18-32; 1 Cor 1-6; Rev 2-3.
288. GS 13 # 1.
289. Rom 5:12, 19.
290. Rom 5:18.
291. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1512.
292. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1514.
293. St. Thomas Aquinas, De malo 4, I.
294. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1511-1512
295. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1513.
296. DS 371-372.
297. Cf. DS 1510-1516.
298. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511; cf. Heb 2:14.
299. Cf. John Paul II, CA 25.
300. Jn 1:29.
301. Cf. John Paul II, RP 16.
302. 1 Jn 5:19; cf. I Pt 5:8.
303. GS 37 3 2.
304. Cf. Gen 3:9, 15.
305. Cf. 1 Cor 15:21-22, 45; Phil 2:8; Rom 5:19-20.
306. Cf. Pius IXs Ineffabilis Deus: DS 2803; Council of Trent: DS 1573.
307. St. Leo the Great, Sermo 73, 4: PL 54, 396.
308. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, I, 3, ad 3; cf. Rom 5:20. 


CHAPTER TWO: I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD

1. Gal 4:4-5.
2. Mk 1:1.
3. Mk 1:11; cf. Lk 1:5, 68.
4. Jn 13:3.
5. Jn 3:13; 6:33.
6. 1 Jn 4:2.
7. Jn 1:14,16.
8. Mt 16:16.
9. Cf. Mt 16:18; St. Leo the Great, Sermo 4 3: PL 54,150 - 152; 51,1: PL 54, 309B; 62, 2: PL 54, 350-351; 83, 3: PL 54, 431-432.
10. Eph 3:8.
11. Acts 4:20.
12. 1 Jn 1:1-4.
13. CT 5.
14. CT 5.
15. CT 5.
16. CT 6; cf. Jn 7:16.
17. Phil 3:8-11.
18. Cf. Lk 1:31.
19. Mt 1:21; cf. 2:7.
20. Dt 5:6.
21. Cf. Ps 51:4, 12.
22. Cf. Ps 79:9.
23. Cf. Jn 3:18; Acts 2:21; 5:41; 3 Jn 7; Rom 10:6-13.
24. Acts 4:12; cf. 9:14; Jas 2:7.
25. Cf. Ex 25:22; Lev 16:2,15-16; Num 7:89; Sir 50:20; Heb 9:5,7.
26. Rom 3:25; 2 Cor 5:19.
27. Phil 2:9-10; cf. Jn 12:28.
28. Cf. Acts 16:16-18; 19:13-16; Mk 16:17; Jn 15:16.
29. Cf. Ex 29:7; Lev 8:12; 1 Sam 9:16; 10:1; 16:1, 12-13; 1 Kings 1:39; 19:16.
30. Cf. Ps 2:2; Acts 4:26-27.
31. Cf. Is 11:2; 61:1; Zech 4:14; 6:13; Lk 4:16-21.
32. Lk 2:11.
33. Jn 10:36; cf. Lk 1:35.
34. Mt 1:20; cf. 1:16; Rom 1:1; 2 Tim 2:8; Rev 22:16.
35. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3,18,3: PG 7/1, 934.
36. Acts 10:38; Jn 1:31.
37. Mk 1:24; Jn 6:69; Acts 3:14.
38. Cf Mt 2:2; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30; 21:9.15.
39. Cf. Jn 4:25-26; 6:15; 11:27; Mt 22:41-46; Lk 24:21.
40. Cf. Mt 16:16-23.
41. Jn 3:13; Mt 20:28; cf. Jn 6:62; Dan 7:13; Is 53:10-12.
42. Cf. Jn 19:19-22; Lk 23:39-43.
43. Acts 2:36.
44. Cf. Dt 14:1; ( LXX) 32:8; Job 1:6; Ex 4:22; Hos 2:1; 11:1; Jer 3:19; sir 36:11; Wis 18:13; 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 82:6.
45. Cf. 1 Chr 17:13; Ps 2:7; Mt 27:54; Lk 23:47.
46. Mt 16:16-17.
47. Gal 1:15-16.
48. Acts 9:20.
49. Cf. I Th 1:10; Jn 20:31; Mt 16:18.
50. Lk 22:70; cf. Mt 26:64; Mk 14:61-62.
51. Cf. Mt 11:27; 21:34-38; 24:36.
52. Mt 5:48; 6:8-9; 7:21; Lk 11:13; Jn 20:17.
53. Cf. Mt 3:17; cf. 17:5.
54. Jn 3:16; cf. 10:36.
55. Jn 3:18.
56. Mk 15:39.
57. Rom 1:3; cf. Acts 13:33.
58. Jn 1:14.
59. Cf. Ex 3:14.
60. Cf. 1 Cor 2:8.
61. Cf. Mt 22:41-46; cf. Acts 2:34-36; Heb 1:13; Jn 13:13.
62. Cf Mt 8:2; 14:30; 15:22; et al.
63. Cf. Lk 1:43; 2:11.
64. Jn 20:28,21:7.
65. Cf. Acts 2:34 - 36; Rom 9:5; Titus 2:13; Rev 5:13; Phil 2:6.
66. Cf. Rom 10:9; 1 Cor 12:3; Phil 2:9-11.
67. Cf. Rev 11:15; Mk 12:17; Acts 5:29.
68. GS 10 # 3; Cf. 45 # 2.
69. 1 Cor 16:22; Rev 22:20.
70. 1 Jn 4:1O; 4:14; 3:5.
71. St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech 15: PG 45, 48B.
72. 1 Jn 4:9.
73. Jn 3:16.
74. Mt 11:29; Jn 14:6.
75. Mk 9:7; cf. Dt 6:4-5.
76. Jn 15:12.
77. Cf. Mk 8:34.
78. 2 Pet 1:4.
79. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939.
80. St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.
81. St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4.
82. Jn 1:14.
83. Phil 2:5-8; cf. LH, Saturday, Canticle at Evening Prayer.
84. Heb 10:5-7, citing Ps 40:6-8 ([7-9] LXX).
85. 1 Jn 4:2.
86. 1 Tim 3:16.
87. Cf. 1 Jn 4:2-3; 2 Jn 7.
88. Council of Nicaea I (325): DS 130, 126.
89. Council of Ephesus (431): DS 250.
90. Council of Ephesus: DS 251.
91. Council of Chalcedon (451): DS 301; cf. Heb 4:15.
92. Council of Chalcedon: DS 302.
93. Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 424.
94. Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 432; cf. DS 424; Council of Ephesus, DS 255.
95. LH, 1 January, Antiphon for Morning Prayer; cf. St. Leo the Great, Sermo in nat. Dom. 1, 2; PL 54, 191-192.
96. Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Troparion O monogenes.
97. GS 22 # 2.
98. Cf. Jn 14:9-10.
99. GS 22 # 2.
100. Cf. Damasus 1: DS 149.
101. Lk 2:52.
102. Cf. Mk 6 38; 8 27; Jn 11:34; etc.
103. Phil 2:7.
104. Cf. St. Gregory the Great, "Sicut aqua" ad Eulogium, Epist. Lib. 10, 39. PL 77, 1097. Aff.; DS 475.
105. St. Maximus the Confessor, Qu. et dub. 66 PG 90, 840A.
106. Cf. Mk 14:36; Mt 11:27; Jn 1:18; 8:55; etc.
107. Cf. Mk 2:8; Jn 2 25; 6:61; etc.
108. Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30.
109. Cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7.
110. Cf. Council of Constantinople III (681): DS 556-559.
111. Council of Constantinople III: DS 556.
112. Cf. Council of the Lateran (649): DS 504.
113. Cf. Cal 3:1; cf. Council of Nicaea II (787): DS 600-603.
114. Roman Missal, Preface of Christmas I.
115. Council of Nicaea II: DS 601.
116. Cal 2:20.
117. Cf. Jn 19:34.
118. Pius XII, Enc. Haurietis aquas (1956): DS 3924; cf. DS 3812.
119. Gal 4:4.
120. Col 2:9.
121. Lk 1:34-35 (Greek).
122. Cf. Jn 16:14-15.
123. Cf. Mt 1:20; 2:1-12; Lk 1:35; 2:8-20; Jn 1:3 1-34; 2:11.
124. Acts 10:38.
125. Gal 4:4; Heb 10:5.
126. Lk 1:26-27.
127. LG 56; cf. LG 61.
128. Cf. Gen 3:15, 20.
129. Cf. Gen 18:10-14; 21:1-2.
130. Cf. 1 Cor 1:17; 1 Sam 1.
131. LG 55.
132. LG 56.
133. Lk 1:28.
134. Lk 1:28.
135. Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (1854): DS 2803.
136. LG 53, 56.
137. Cf. Eph 1:3-4.
138. LG 56.
139. Lk 1:28-38; cf. Rom 1:5.
140. Cf. LG 56.
141. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.
142. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 22, 4: PG 7/1, 959A.
143. LC 56; St. Epiphanius, Panarion 2, 78, 18: PG 42, 728CD-729AB; St. Jerome, Ep. 22, 21: PL 22, 408.
144. Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.
145. Council of Ephesus (431): DS 251.
146. Council of the Lateran (649): DS 503; cf. DS 10-64.
147. St. Ignatius of Antioch Ad Smyrn 1-2: Apostolic Fathers, ed. J. B. Lightfoot (London: Macmillan, 1889), 11/2, 289-293; SCh 10, 154-156; cf. Rom
1:3; Jn 1:13.
148. Mt 1 18-25; Lk 1:26-38.
149. Mt 1:20.
150. Is 7:14 ( LXX), quoted in Mt 1:23 (Greek).
151. Cf. St. Justin, Dial. 99, 7: PG 6, 708-709; Origen, Contra Celsum 1, 32, 69: PG 11, 720-721; et al.
152. Dei Filius 4: DS 3016.
153. St. Ignatius of Antioch Ad Eph. 19, 1: AF 11/2 76-80: cf. 1 Cor 2:8.
154. Cf. DS 291; 294; 427; 442; 503; 571; 1880.
155. LG 57.
156. Cf. LG 52.
157. Cf. Mk 3:31-35; 6:3; 1 Cor 9:5; Gal 1:19.
158. Mt 13:55; 28:1; cf. Mt 27:56.
159. Cf. Gen 13:8; 14:16; 29:15; etc.
160. LG 63; cf. Jn 19:26-27; Rom 8:29; Rev 12:17.
161. Council of Friuli (796): DS 619; cf. Lk 2:48-49.
162. 1 Cor 15:45,47.
163. Jn 3:34.
164. Jn 1:16; cf. Col 1:18.
165. Lk 1:34; cf. Jn 3:9.
166. Jn 1:13.
167. Cf. 2 Cor 11:2.
168. LG 63; cf. l Cor 7:34-35.
169. St. Augustine, De virg. 3: PL 40, 398.
170. LG 64; cf. 63.
171 Acts1:1-2 172. Cf. Jn 20:30.
173. Jn 20:31.
174. Cf. Mk 1:1; Jn 21:24.
175. Cf Lk 2:7; Mt 27: 48; Jn 20:7.
176. Col 2:9.
177. Jn 14:9; Lk 9:35; cf. Mt 17:5; Mk 9:7, "my beloved Son".
178. Jn 4:9.
179. Cf. Eph 1:7; Col 1:13-14; 1 Pt 1:18-19.
180. Cf. 2 Cor 8:9.
181. Cf. Lk 2:51.
182. Cf. Jn 15:3.
183. Mt 8:17; cf. Is 53:4.
184. Cf. Rom 4:25.
185. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 18, 1: PG 7/1, 932.
186. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 18, 7: PG 7/1, 937; cf. 2, 22, 4.
187. John Paul II, RH II.
188. 1 Cor 15:3; Rom 4:25.
189. 1 Jn 2:1 Heb 7:25.
190. Heb 9:24.
191. GS 38; cf. Rom 1 5:5; Phil 2:5.
192. Cf. Jn 13:15; Lk 11:1; Mt 5:11-12.
193. GS 22 # 2.
194. St. John Eudes: LH, week 33, Friday, OR.
195. Heb 9:15.
196. Cf. Acts 13:24; Mt 3:3.
197. Lk 1:76; cf. 7:26; Mt 11:13.
198. Jn 1 29; cf. Acts 1:22; Lk 1:41; 16:16; Jn 3:29.
199. Lk 1:17; cf. Mk 6:17-29.
200. Cf Rev 22:17.
201. Jn 3:30.
202. Cf. Lk 2:61.
203. Cf. Lk 2:8-20.
204. Kontakion of Romanos the Melodist.
205. Cf. Mt 18:3-4.
206. Jn 3 7; 1:13; 1:12; cf. Mt 23:12.
207. Cf. Gal 4:19.
208. LH, 1 January, Antiphon I of Evening Prayer.
209. Cf. Lk 2:21.
210. Cf. Gal 4:4.
211. Cf. Col 2:11-13.
212. Mt 2:1; cf. LH, Epiphany, Evening Prayer II, Antiphon at the Canticle of Mary.
213. Cf Mt 2:2; Num 24:17-19; Rev 22:16.
214. Cf Jn 4 22; Mt 2:4-6.
215. St. Leo the Great, Sermo 3 in epiphania Domini 1-3, 5: PL 54, 242; LH, Epiphany, OR; Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 26, Prayer after the third reading.
216. Cf. Lk 2:22-39; EX 13:2, 12-13.
217. Cf. Mt 2:13-18.
218. Jn 1:11.
219. Cf. Jn 15:20.
220. Cf. Mt 2:15; Hos 11:1.
221. Cf. Gal 4:4.
222. Lk 2:51-52.
223. Lk 22:42.
224. Cf. Rom 5:19.
225. Paul VI at Nazareth, 5 January 1964: LH, Feast of the Holy Family, OR.
226. Cf. Lk 2:41-52.
227. Lk 2:49 alt.
228. Cf. Lk 3:23; Acts 1:22.
229. lK 3:3.
230. Cf. Lk 3:10-14; Mt 3:7; 21:32.
231. Mt 3:13-17.
232. Jn 1:29; cf. Is 53:12.
233. Cf. Mk 10:38; Lk 12:50.
234. Mt 3:15; cf. 26:39.
235. Cf. Lk 3:22; Is 42:1.
236. Jn 1:32-33; cf. Is 11:2.
237. Mt 3:16.
238. Rom 6:4.
239. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 9: PG 36, 369.
240. St. Hilary of Poitiers, In Matth. 2, 5: PL 9, 927.
241. Cf. Mk 1:12-13.
242. Lk 4:13.
243. Cf. Ps 95:10; Mk 3:27
244. Cf Mt 16:2 1-23.
245. Heb 4:15.
246. Mk 1:14-15.
247. LG 3.
248. LG 2.
249. LG 5.
250. Jn 12:32; cf. LG 3.
251. Cf. Mt 8:11 10:5-7; 28:19.
252. LC 5; cf. Mk 4:14, 26-29; Lk 12:32.
253. Lk 4:18; cf. 7:22.
254. Mt 5:3.
255. Cf. Mt 11:25.
256. Cf. Mt 21:18; Mk 2:23-26; Jn 4:6 1; 19:28; Lk 9:58.
257. Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
258. Mk 2:17; cf. l Tim 1:15.
259. Lk 15:7; cf. 7:11-32.
260. Mt 26:28.
261. Cf. Mk 4:33-34.
262. Cf. Mt 13:44-45; 22:1-14.
263. Cf. Mt 21:28-32.
264. Cf. Mt 13:3-9.
265. Cf. Mt 25:14-30.
266. Mt 13:11.
267. Mk 4:11; cf. Mt 13:10-15.
268. Acts 2:22; cf. Lk 7:18-23.
269. cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 38.
270. Cf. Mk 5:25-34; 10:52; etc.
271. Cf. Jn 10:31-38.
272. Mt 11:6.
273. Cf. Jn 11:47-48; Mk 3:22.
274. Cf. Jn 6:5-15; Lk 19:8; Mt 11:5.
275. Cf. Lk 12 13-14; Jn 18:36.
276. Cf. Jn 8:34-36.
277. Mt 12:26, 28.
278. Jn 12:31; cf. Lk 8:26-39.
279. LH, Lent, Holy Week, Evening Prayer, Hymn Vexilla Regis: Regnavit a ligno Deus.
280. Cf. Mk 3:13-19.
281. Lk 9:2.
282. Lk 22:29-30.
283. Cf Mk 3:16; 9:2; Lk 24:34; 1 Cor 15:5.
284. Mt 16:18.
285. I Pt 2:4.
286. Cf. Lk 22:32.
287. Mt 16:19.
288. Jn 21:15-17; Cf. 10:11.
289. Cf. Mt 18:18.
290. Mt 16:21.
291. Cf. Mt 16:22-23; 17:23; Lk 9:45.
292. Cf. Mt 17:1-8 and parallels; 2 Pet 1:16-18.
293. Lk 9:31.
294. Lk 9:35.
295. Lk 24:26.
296. Cf. Lk 24:27.
297. Cf. Is 42:1.
298. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 45, 4, ad 2.
299. Byzantine Liturgy, Feast of the Transfiguration, Kontakion.
300. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 45, 4, ad 2.
301. Phil 3:21.
302. Acts 14:22.
303. St. Augustine, Sermo 78, 6: PL 38, 492-493; cf. Lk 9:33.
304. Lk 9:51; cf. Jn 13:1.
305. Lk 13:33; cf. Mk 8:31-33; 9:31-32; 10:32-34.
306. Mt 23:37.
307. Lk 19:41-42.
308. Lk 1:32; cf. Mt 21:1-11; Jn 6:15.
309. Ps 24:7-10; Zech 9:9.
310. Cf. Jn 18:37.
311. Cf. Mt 21:15-16; cf. Ps 8:3; Lk 19:38; 2:14.
312. Cf. Ps 118:26.
313. Heb 9:26.
314. Lk 24:26-27,44-45.
315. Mk 8:31; Mt 20:19.
316. Cf. DV 19.
317. Cf. Mk 3:6; 14:1.
318. Cf. Mt 12:24; Mk 2:7,14-17; 3:1-6; 7:14-23.
319. Cf. Mk 3:22; Jn 8:48; 10:20.
320. Cf. Mk 2:7; Jn 5:18; 7:12, 52; 8:59; 10:31, 33.
321. Lk 2:34.
322. Cf. Jn 1:19; 2:18; 5:10; 7:13; 9:22; 18:12; 19:38; 20:19.
323. Jn 7:48-49.
324. Cf Lk 13:31.
325. Cf. Lk 7:36; 14:1.
326. Cf. Mt 22:23-34; Lk 20:39.
327. Cf. Mt 6:18.
328. Cf. Mk 12:28-34.
329. Mt 5:17-19.
330. Mt 5:19.
331. Cf. Jn 8:46.
332. Cf. Jn 7:19; Acts 13:38-41; 15:10.
333. Jas 2:10; cf. Gal 3:10; 5:3.
334. Cf. Rom 10:2.
335. Cf. Mt 15:31; Lk 11:39-54.
336. Cf Is 53:11; Heb 9:15.
337. Cf. Gal 4:4.
338. Jer 31:33; Is 42:3, 6.
339. Gal 3:13; 3:10; Heb 9:15.
340. Cf Jn 11:28; 3:2; Mt 22:23-24, 34-36.
341. Cf. Mt 12:5; 9:12; Mk 2:23-27; Lk 6:6-g; Jn 7:22-23.
342. Mt 7:28-29.
343. Cf. Mt 5:1.
344. Mt 5:33-34.
345. Mk 7:13; cf. 3:8.
346. Mk 7:18-21; cf. Gal 3:24.
347. Cf. Jn 5:36; 10:25, 37-38; 12:37.
348. Cf. Num 28 9; Mt 12:5; Mk 2:25-27; Lk 13:15-16; 14:3-4; Jn 7:22-24.
349. Lk 2:22-39.
350. Cf. Lk 2 46-49.
351. Cf. Lk 2 41.
352. Cf. Jn 2 13-14; 5:1, 14; 7:1, 10, 14; 8 2; 10:22-23.
353. Cf. Mt 21:13.
354. Jn 2:16-17; cf. Ps 69:10.
355. Cf. Acts 2:46; 3:1; 5:20, 21; etc.
356. Cf. Mt 24:1-2.
357. Cf. Mt 24:3; Lk 13:35.
358. Cf Mk 14:57-58; Mt 27 39-40.
359. Cf. Mt 8:4; 16:18; 17:24-27; Lk 17:14; Jn 4:22; 18:20.
360. Cf. Jn 2:21; Mt 12:6.
361. Cf. Jn 2:18-22.
362. Jn 4:21; cf. 4:23-24; Mt 27:5; Heb 9:11; Rev 21:22.
363. Cf. Lk 2:34; 20:17-18; Ps 118:22.
364. Cf. Lk 5:30; 7:36; 11:37; 14:1.
365. Lk 18:9; 5:32; cf. Jn 7:49; 9:34.
366. Cf. Jn 8:33-36; 9:40-41.
367. Cf. Mt 9:13; Hos 6:6.
368. Cf. Lk 15:1-2, 22-32.
369. Mk 2:7.
370. Cf. Jn 5:18; 10:33; 17:6,26.
371. Cf. Mt 12:6, 30, 36, 37, 41-42.
372. Jn 8:58; 10:30.
373. Jn 10:36-38.
374. Cf. Jn 3:7; 6:44.
375. Cf. Is 53:1.
376. Cf. Mk 3:6; Mt 26:64-66.
377. Cf. Lk 23 34; Acts 3: 17-18; Mk 3:5; Rom 11:25, 20.
378. Jn 12:42; cf. 7:50; 9:16-17; 10:19-21; 19:38-39.
379. Acts 6:7; 15:5; 21:20.
380. cf. Jn 9:16; 10:19.
381. Cf Jn 9:22.
382. Jn 11:48-50.
383. Cf. Mt 26:66; Jn 18:31; Lk 23:2, 19.
384. Cf. Jn 19:12, 15, 21.
385. Cf. Mk 15:11; Acts 2:23, 36; 3:13-14; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; 10:39; 13:27-28; I Th 2:14-15.
386. Cf. Lk 23:34; Acts 3:17.
387. Mt 27:25; cf. Acts 5:28; 18:6.
388. NA 4.
389. Roman Catechism I, 5, 11; cf. Heb 12:3.
390. Cf. Mt 25:45; Acts 9:4-5.
391. Roman Catechism I, 5, 11; cf. Heb 6:6; 1 Cor 2:8.
392. St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitio 5, 3.
393. Acts 2:23.
394. Cf. Acts 3:13.
395. Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2.
396. Cf. Mt 26:54; Jn 18:36; 19:11; Acts 3:17-18.
397. Is 53:11; cf. 53:12; Jn 8 34-36; Acts 3:14.
398. 1 Cor 15:3; cf. also Acts 3:18; 7:52; 13:29; 26:22-23.
399. Cf. Is 53:7-8 and Acts 8:32-35.
400. Cf. Mt 20:28.
401. Cf. Lk 24:25-27, 44-45.
402. I Pt 1:18-20.
403. Cf. Rom 5:12; 1 Cor 15:56.
404. 2 Cor 5:21; cf. Phil 2:7; Rom 8:3.
405. Cf. Jn 8:46.
406. Mk 15:34; Ps 22:2; cf. Jn 8:29.
407. Rom 8:32; 5:10.
408. I John 4:10; 4:19.
409. Rom 5:8.
410. Mt 18:14.
411. Mt 20:28; cf. Rom 5:18-19.
412. Council of Quiercy (853): DS 624; cf. 2 Cor 5:15; 1 Jn 2:2.
413. Jn 6:38.
414. Heb 10:5-10.
415. Jn 4:34.
416. 1 Jn 2:2.
417. Jn 10:17; 14:31.
418. Cf Lk 12:50; 22:15; Mt 16:21-23.
419. Jn 12:27.
420. Jn 18:11.
421. Jn 19:30; 19:28.
422. Jn 1:29; cf. Lk 3:21; Mt 3:14-15; Jn 1:36.
423. Is 53:7,12; cf. Jer 11:19; Ex 12:3-14; Jn 19:36; 1 Cor 5:7.
424. Mk 10:45.
425. Jn 13:1; 15:13.
426. Cf. Heb 2:10,17-18; 4:15; 5:7-9.
427. Jn 10:18.
428. Cf. Jn 18:4-6; Mt 26:53.
429. Roman Missal, EP III; cf. Mt 26:20; 1 Cor 11:23.
430. Lk 22:19; Mt 26:28; cf. 1 Cor 5:7.
431. 1 Cor 11:25.
432. Cf. Lk 22:19.
433. Jn 17:19; cf. Council of Trent: DS 1752; 1764.
434. Cf. Mt 26:42; Lk 22:20.
435. Phil 2:8; Mt 26:39; cf. Heb 5:7-8.
436. Cf. Rom 5:12; Heb 4:15.
437. Cf. Acts 3:15; Rev 1:17; Jn 1:4; 5:26.
438. 1 Pt 224; cf. Mt 26:42.
439. Jn 1:29; cf. 8:34-36; 1 Cor 5:7; 1 Pt 1:19.
440. Mt 26:28; cf. Ex 24:8; Lev 16:15-16; Cor 11:25.
441. Cf. Heb 10:10.
442. Cf. Jn 10:17-18; 15:13; Heb 9:14; 1 Jn 4:10.
443. Rom 5:19.
444. Is 53:10-12.
445. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1529.
446. Jn 13:1.
447. Cf. Gal 2:20; Eph 5:2, 25.
448. 2 Cor 5:14.
449. Heb 5:9.
450. Council of Trent: DS 1529.
451. LH, Lent, Holy Week, Evening Prayer, Hymn Vexilla Regis.
452. 1 Tim 2:5.
453. GS 22 # 5; cf. # 2.
454. Mt 16:24.
455. I Pt 2:21.
456. Cf Mk 10:39; Jn 21:18-19; Col 1:24.
457. Cf. Lk 2:35.
458. St. Rose of Lima: cf. P. Hansen, Vita mirabilis (Louvain, 1668).
459. Heb 2:9.
460. 1 Cor 15:3.
461. Cf. Jn 19:42.
462. Cf. Heb 4:7-9.
463. Cf. Jn 19:30.
464. Cf Col 1: 18-20.
465. Rev 1:18.
466. St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech. 16: PG 45, 52D.
467. Acts 3:15.
468. Lk 24:5-6.
469. St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 3, 27: PG 94, 1097.
Acts 2:24.
470. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 51, 3.
471. Is 53:8.
472. Acts 2:26-27; cf. Ps 16:9-10.
473. Cf. 1 Cor 15:4; Lk 24:46; Mt 12:40; Jon 2:1; Hos 6:2; cf. Jn 11:39.
474. Rom 6:4; cf. Col 2:12; Eph 5:26.
475. Eph 4:9-10.
476. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 18, Exsultet.
477. Acts 3:15; Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 15:20; cf. Heb 13:20.
478. Cf. I Pt 3:18-19.
479. Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13.
480. Cf. Ps 89:49; 1 Sam 28:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Lk 16:22-26.
481. Roman Catechism 1, 6, 3.
482. Cf. Council of Rome (745): DS 587; Benedict XII, Cum dudum (1341): DS 1011; Clement VI, Super quibusdam (1351): DS 1077; Council of
Toledo IV (625): DS 485; Mt 27:52-53.
483. I Pt 4:6.
484. Jn 5:25; cf. Mt 12:40; Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9.
485. Heb 2:14-15; cf. Acts 3:15.
486. Rev 1:18; Phil 2:10.
487. Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday: PG 43, 440A, 452C; LH, Holy Saturday, OR.
488. Acts 13:32-33.
489. Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion of Easter.
490. 1 Cor 15:3-4.
491. Cf. Acts 9:3-18.
492. Lk 24:5-6.
493. Cf. Jn 20:13; Mt 28:11-15.
494. Cf. Lk 24:3, 12, 22-23.
495. Jn 20:2, 6, 8.
496. Cf. Jn 11:44; 20:5-7.
497. Mk 16:1; Lk 24:1; Jn 19:31,42.
498. Cf Lk 24:9-10; Mt 28:9-10; Jn 20:11-18.
499. Cf 1 Cor 15:5; Lk 22:31-32.
500. Lk 24:34, 36.
501. 1 Cor 15:4-8; cf. Acts 1:22.
502. Cf. Lk 22:31-32.
503. 1 Lk 24:17; cf. Jn 20:19.
504. Lk 24:11; cf. Mk 16:11, 13.
505. Mk 16:14.
506. Lk 24:38-41.
507. Cf Jn 20:24-27; Mt 28:17.
508. Cf. Lk 24:30,39-40, 41-43; Jn 20:20, 27; 21:9,13-15.
509. Cf. Mt 28:9, 16-17; Lk 24:15, 36; Jn 20:14, 17, 19, 26; 21:4.
510. Cf. Mk 16:12; Jn 20:14-16; 21:4, 7.
511. Cf. 1 Cor 15:35-50.
512. O vere beata nox, quae sola meruit scire tempus et horam, in qua Christus ab inferis resurrexit!
513. Acts 13:31; cf. Jn 14:22.
514. Rom I 3-4; cf. Acts 2:24.
515. Cf. Rom 6:4; 2 Cor 13:4; Phil 3:10; Eph 1:19-22; Heb 7:16.
516. Cf. Mk 8:31; 9:9-31; 10:34.
517. Jn 10:17-18.
518. I Th 4:14.
519. St. Gregory of Nyssa, In Christi res. Orat. I: PG 46, 617B; cf. also DS 325; 359; 369.
520. 1 Cor 15:14.
521. Cf. Mt 28:6; Mk 16:7; Lk 24:6-7, 26-27, 44-48.
522. Cf. 1 Cor 15:3-4; cf. the Nicene Creed.
523. Jn 8:28.
524. Acts 13:32-33; cf. Ps 2:7.
525. Rom 6:4; cf. 4:25.
526. Cf. Eph 2:4-5; I Pt 1:3.
527. Mt 28:10; Jn 20:17.
528. 1 Cor 15:20-22.
529. Heb 6:5.
530. 2 Cor 5:15; cf. Col 3:1-3.
531. Mk 16:19.
532. Cf Lk 24:31; Jn 20:19, 26.
533. Cf. Acts 1:3; 10:41; Mk 16:12; Lk 24:15; Jn 20:14-15; 21:4.
534. Cf. Acts 1:9; 2:33; 7:56; Lk 9:34-35; 24:51; Ex 13:22; Mk 16:19; Ps 110:1.
535. 1 Cor 15:8; cf. 9:1; Gal 1:16.
536. Jn 20:17.
537. Cf. Jn 16:28.
538. Jn 3:13; cf. Eph 4:8-10.
539. Jn 14:2.
540. Missale Romanum, Preface of the Ascension: sed ut illuc confideremus, sua membra, nos subsequi quo ipse, caput nostrum principiumque, praecessit.
541. Jn 12:32.
542. Heb 9:24.
543. Heb 7:25.
544. Heb 9:11; cf. Rev 4:6-11.
545. St. John Damascene, Defide orth. 4, 2: PG 94, 1104C.
546. Dan 7:14.
547. Nicene Creed.
548. Rom 14:9.
549. Eph 1:20-22.
550. Eph 1:10; cf. 4:10; 1 Cor 15:24, 27-28.
551. Cf. Eph 1:22.
552. LG 3; 5; cf. Eph 4:11-13.
553. 1 Jn 2:18; cf. I Pt 4:7.
554. LG 48 # 3; cf. 1 Cor 10:11.
555. Cf. Mk 16:17-18, 20.
556. Lk 21:27; cf. Mt 25:31.
557. Cf. 2 Th 2:7.
558. LG 48 # 3; cf. 2 Pet 3:13; Rom 8:19-22; 1 Cor 15:28.
559. Cf. 1 Cor 11:26; 2 Pet 3:11-12.
560. 1 Cor 16:22; Rev 22:17,20.
561. Cf. Acts 1:6-7.
562. Cf. Is 11:1-9.
563. Cf. Acts 1:8; 1 Cor 7:26; Eph 5:16; I Pt 4:17.
564. Cf. Mt 25:1, 13; Mk 13:33-37; 1 Jn 2:18; 4:3; 1 Tim 4:1.
565. Cf. Rev 22:20.
566. Acts 1:7; Cf. Mk 13:32.
567. Cf. Mt 24:44; I Th 5:2; 2 Th 2:3-12.
568. Rom I 1:20-26; cf. Mt 23:39.
569. Acts 3:19-21.
570. Rom 11:15.
571. Rom 11:12, 25; cf. Lk 21:24.
572. Eph 4:13; 1 Cor 15:28.
573. Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12.
574. Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20.
575. Cf. 2 Th 2:4-12; I Th 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; 1 Jn 2:1 8, 22.
576. Cf. DS 3839.
577. Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, condemning the "false mysticism" of this "counterfeit of the redemption of the lowly"; cf. GS 20-21.
578. Cf. Rev 19:1-9.
579. Cf Rev 13:8; 20:7-10; 21:2-4.
580. Cf. Rev 20:12, 2 Pet 3:12-13.
581. Cf. Dan 7:10; Joel 3-4; Mal 3: 19; Mt 3:7-12.
582. Cf Mk 12:38-40; Lk 12:1-3; Jn 3:20-21; Rom 2:16; 1 Cor 4:5.
583. Cf. Mt 11:20-24; 12:41-42.
584. Cf. Mt 5:22; 7:1-5.
585. Mt 25:40.
586. Jn 5:22; cf. 5:27; Mt 25:31; Acts 10:42; 17:31; 2 Tim 4:1.
587. Cf. Jn 3:17; 5:26.
588. Cf. Jn 3:18; 12:48; Mt 12:32; 1 Cor 3:12-15; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26-31. 


CHAPTER THREE - I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. 1. Cor 12:3.
2. Gal 4:6.
3. St. Irenaeus, Dem. ap. 7: SCh 62, 41-42.
4. In 17:3.
5. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio theol., 5, 26 (= Oratio 31, 26): PG 36, 161-163.
6. Nicene Creed; see above, par. 465.
7. 1. Cor 2:11.
8. Jn 16:13.
9. Jn 14:17.
10. Cf. Gal 4:6.
11. Cf. Jn 3:34.
12. Jn 7:39.
13. Cf. Jn 17:22.
14. Cf. Jn 16:14.
15. St. Gregory of Nyssa, De Spiritu Sancto, 16: PG 45, 1321A-B.
16. Cf. Mt 28:19.
17. In 3:5-8.
18. In 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7.
19. Cf. 1 Jn 2:1.
20. In 16:13.
21. Cf. Gal 3:14; Eph 1:13.
22. Rom 8:15; Gal 4:6.
23. Rom 8:9.
24. 2. Cor 3:17.
25. Rom 8:9, 14; 15:19; 1 Cor 6:11; 7:40.
26. 1 Pet 4:14.
27. 1 Cor 12:13.
28. Jn 19:34; 1 Jn 5:8.
29. Cf. Jn 4:10-14; 738; Ex 17:1-6; Isa 55:1; Zech 14:8; 1 Cor 10:4; Rev 21:6; 22:17.
30. Cf. 1 Jn"> 1 Jn 2:20:27; 2 Cor 1:21.
31. Cf. Ex 30:22-32; 1 Sam 16:13.
32. Cf. Lk 418-19; Isa 61:1.
33. Cf. Lk 2:11,26-27.
34. Cf. Lk 4:1; 6:19; 8:46.
35. Cf. Rom 1:4; 8:11.
36. Eph 4:13; cf. Acts 2:36.
37. Sir 48:1; cf. 1 Kings 18:38-39.
38. Lk 1:17; 3:16.
39. Lk 12:49.
40. Acts 2:3-4.
41. Cf. St. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love, in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez,
OCD (Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979), 577. ff.
42. 1. Thess 5:19.
43. Cf. Ex 24:15-18.
44. Cf. Ex 33:9-10.
45. Cf. Ex 40:36-38; 1 Cor 10:1-2.
46. Cf. 1 Kings 8:10-12.
47. Lk 1:35.
48. Lk 9:34-35.
49. Cf. Acts 1:9; cf. Lk 21:27.
50. Jn 6:27; cf. 2 Cor 1:22; Eph 1:13; 4:30.
51. Cf. Mk 6:5; 8:23; 10:16.
52. Cf. Mk 16:18; Acts 5:12; 14:3.
53. Cf. Acts 8:17-19; 13:3; 19:6.
54. Cf. Heb 6:2.
55. Lk 11:20.
56. Ex 31:18; 2 Cor 3:3.
57. LH, Easter Season after Ascension, Hymn at Vespers: digitus paternae dexterae.
58. Cf. Gen 8:8-12.
59. Cf. Mt 3:16 and parallels.
60. Gal 4:4.
61. Cf. 2 Cor 3:14; Jn 5:39, 46.
62. Cf. Lk 24:44.
63. Cf. Pss 33:6; 104:30; Gen 1:2; 2:7; Eccl 3:20-21; Ezek 37:10.
64. Byzantine liturgy, Sundays of the second mode, Troparion of Morning Prayer.
65. St. Irenaeus, Dem ap. 11: SCh 62, 48-49.
66. Rom 3:23.
67. Cf. Jn 1:14; Phil 2:7.
68. Cf. Gen 18:1-15; Lk 1:26-38. 54-55; Jn 1:12-13; Rom 4:16-21.
69. Cf. Gen 12:3; Gal 3:16.
70. Cf. In 11:52.
71. Eph 1:13-14; cf. Gen 22:17-19; Lk 1:73; Jn 3:16; Rom 8:32; Gal 3:14.
72. Cf. Ex 19-20; Deut 1-11; 29-30.
73. Gal 3:24.
74. Cf. Rom 3:20.
75. Ex 19:5-6; Cf. 1 Pet 2:9.
76. Cf. 2 Sam 7; Ps 89; Lk 1:32-33.
77. Cf. Lk 24:26.
78. Isa 43:19.
79. Cf. Zeph 2:3; Lk 2:25, 38.
80. Jn 12:41; cf. Isa 6-12.
81. Isa 11:1-2.
82. Cf. Isa 42:1-9; cf. Mt 12:18-21; Jn 1:32-34; then cf. Isa 49:1-6; cf. Mt 3:17; Lk 2:32; finally cf. Isa 50:4-10 and Isa 52:13-53:12.
83. Phil 2:7.
84. Isa 61:1-2; cf. Lk 4:18-19.
85. Cf. Ezek 11:19; 36:25-28; 37:1-14; Jer 31:31-34; and cf. Joel 3:1-5.
86. Cf. Acts 2:17-21.
87. Cf. Zeph 2:3; Pss 22:27; 34:3; Isa 49:13; 61:1; etc.
88. Lk 1:17.
89. Jn 1:6.
90. Lk 1:15, 41.
91. Cf. Lk 1:68.
92. Mt 17:10-13; cf. Lk 1:78.
93. Lk 1:17.
94. Lk 7:26.
95. Cf. Mt 11:13-14.
96. Jn 1:23; cf. Isa 40:1-3.
97. Jn 1:7; cf. Jn 15:26; 5:35.
98. Cf. 1 Pet 1:10-12.
99. Jn 1:33-36.
100. Cf Jn 3:5.
101. Cf. Prov 8:1-9:6; Sir 24.
102. Col 2:9.
103. Cf. Zeph 3:14; Zech 2:14.
104. Cf. Lk 1:46-55.
105. Cf. Lk 1:26-38; Rom 4:18-21; Gal 4:26-28.
106. Cf. Lk 1:15-19; Mt 2:11.
107. Cf. Lk 2:14.
108. Cf. Jn 19:25-27.
109. Acts 1:14.
110. Cf. Jn 6:27, 51, 62-63.
111. Cf. Jn 3:5-8.
112. Cf. Jn 4:10, 14, 23-24.
113. Cf. Jn 7:37-39.
114. Cf. Lk 11:13.
115. Cf. Mt 10:19-20.
116. Cf. Jn 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15; 17:26.
117. Cf. Jn 13:1; 17:1.
118. Cf. Lk 23:46; Jn 19:30.
119. Rom 6:4.
120. Cf. Jn 20:22.
121. Jn 20:21; cf. Mt 28:19; Lk 24:47-48; Acts 1:8.
122. Cf. Acts 2:33-36.
123. Byzantine liturgy, Pentecost Vespers, Troparion, repeated after communion.
124. 1 Jn 4:8,16.
125. Rom 5:5.
126. 2 Cor 13:14.
127. 1 Jn 4: 12; cf. Rom 8:23; 2 Cor 1:21.
128. Acts 1:8; cf. 1 Cor 13.
129. Gal 5:22-23.
130. Gal 5:25; cf. Mt 16:24-26.
131. St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, 15,36: PG 32,132.
132. Jn 15:8,16.
133. St. Cyril of Alexandria, In Jo. ev., 11,11: PG 74, 561.
134. Rom 8:26.
135. LG 1; cf. Mk 16:15.
136. Roman Catechism I, 10, 1.
137. St. Hippolytus, Trad. Ap. 35: SCh 11, 118.
138. Roman Catechism I, 10, 22.
139. Cf. Acts 19:39.
140. Cf. Ex 19.
141. Cf. 1 Cor 11:18; 14:19, 28, 34, 35.
142. Cf. 1 Cor 1:2; 16:1.
143. Cf. 1 Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13; Phil 3:6.
144. Cf. Eph 1:22; Col 1:18; LG 9.
145. LG 6.
146. LG 6; Cf. Jn 10:1-10; Isa 40:11; Ezek 34:11-31; Jn 10:11; 1 Pet 5:4; Jn 10:11-16.
147. LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 39; Rom 11:13-26; Mt 21:32-43 and parallels; Isa 51-7; Jn 15:1-5.
148. LG 6; Cf. 1 Cor 3:9; Mt 21:42 and parallels; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7; PS 118:22; 1 Cor 3:11; 1 Tim 3:15; Eph 2:19-22; Rev 21:3; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev
21:1-2.
149. LG 6; Cf. Gal 4:26; Rev 12:17; 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17; Eph 5:25-26, 29.
150. LG 2.
151. LG 2.
152. LG 2.
153. Pastor Hermae, Vision 2, 4, 1: PG 2,899; cf. Aristides, Apol. 16, 6; St. Justin, Apol. 2,7: PG 6, 456; Tertullian, Apol. 31, 3; 32, 1: PL 1, 508-509.
154. Cf. St. Epiphanius, Panarion 1, 1, 5: PG 41, 181C.
155. Clement of Alex., Paed. 1, 6, 27: PG 8, 281.
156. Acts 10:35; cf. LG 9; 13; 16.
157. Cf. Gen 12:2; 15:5-6.
158. Cf. Ex 19:5-6; Deut 7:6; Isa 2:2-5; Mic 4:1-4.
159. LG 9; cf. Hos 1; Isa 1:2-4; Jer 2; 31:31-34; Isa 55:3.
160. Cf. LG 3; AG 3.
161. LG 5.
162. LG 3.
163. LG 5.
164. LG 5.
165. Lk 12:32; cf. Mt 10:16; 26:31; In 10:1-21.
166. Cf. Mt 12:49.
167. Cf. Mt 5-6.
168. Cf. Mk 3:14-15.
169. Cf. Mt 19:28; Lk 22:30; Rev 21:12-14.
170. Cf. Mk 6:7; Lk 10:1-2; Mt 10:25; Jn 15:20.
171. LG 3; cf. Jn 19:34.
172. SC 5.
173. Cf. St. Ambrose, In Luc. 2, 85-89 PL 15,1666-1668.
174. LG 4; Cf. Jn 17:4.
175. AG 4.
176. Cf. Mt 28:19-20; AG 2; 5-6.
177. LG 4.
178. LG 5.
179. LG 48.
180. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 18, 51: PL 41, 614; Cf. LG 8.
181. LG 5; Cf. 6; 2 Cor 5:6.
182. LG 2.
183. Roman Catechism 1, 10, 20.
184. LG 8 # 1.
185. LG 8.
186. LG 8.
187. SC 2, Cf. Heb 13:14.
188. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, In Cant. Sermo 27:14 PL 183:920D.
189. Eph 1:10.
190. Eph 5:32; 3:9-11; 5:25-27.
191. Col 1:27.
192. 1 Cor 13:8; cf. LG 48.
193. John Paul II, MD 27.
194. Eph 5:27.
195. Cf. John Paul II, MD 27.
196. St. Augustine, Ep. 187,11,34: PL 33, 846.
197. LG 1.
198. Rev 7:9.
199. LG 9 # 2, 48 # 2; GS 45 # 1.
200. Paul VI, June 22, 1973; AG 7 # 2; cf. LG 17.
201. LG 9; Cf. Acts 10:35; 1 Cor 11:25.
202. 1 Pet 2:9.
203. Jn 3:3-5.
204. Cf. Jn 13 34
205. Rom 8:2; Gal 5:25.
206. Cf. Mt 5:13-16.
207. LG 9 # 2.
208. Cf. John Paul II, RH 18-21.
209. LG 10; Cf. Heb 5:1-5; Rev 1:6.
210. LG 12; Cf. Jude 3.
211. Cf. Jn 12:32.
212. Mt 20:28.
213. LG 8; Cf. 36.
214. St. Leo the Great, Sermo 4, 1: PL 54, 149.
215. Cf. Mk 1:16-20; 3:13-19; Mt 13:10-17; Lk 10:17-20; 22:28-30.
216. Jn 15:4-5.
217. Jn 6:56.
218. Cf. Jn 14:18; 20:22; Mt 28:20; Acts 2:33.
219. LG 7.
220. LG 7.
221. LG 7; cf. Rom 6:4-5; 1 Cor 12:13.
222. LG 7 # 3.
223. LG 7 # 3; cf. 1 Cor 12:26.
224. Gal 3:27-28.
225. Col 1:18.
226. Col 1:18.
227. Gal 4:19.
228. LG 7 # 4; cf. Phil 3:21; Rom 8:17.
229. Cf. Col 2:19; Eph 4:11-16.
230. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev, 21, 8: PL 35, 1568.
231. Pope St. Gregory the Great Moralia in Job, praef., 14: PL 75, 525A.
232. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 48, 2.
233. Acts of the Trial of Joan of Arc.
234. Jn 3:29.
235. Mk 2:19.
236. Cf. Mt 22:1-14; 25:1-13; 1 Cor 6:15-17; 2 Cor 11:2.
237. Cf. Rev 22:17; Eph 1:4. 5:27.
238. Eph 5:25-26.
239. Cf. Eph 5:29.
240. Eph 5:31-32.
241. Mt 19:6.
242. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 74:4: PL 36, 948-949.
243. St. Augustine, Sermo 267, 4: PL 38, 1231D.
244. Pius XII, encyclical, Mystici Corporis: DS 3808.
245. 2 Cor 6:16; cf. 1 Cor 3:16-17; Eph 2:21.
246. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 24, 1: PG 7/1, 966.
247. Pius XII, encyclical, Mystici Corporis: DS 3808.
248. Cf. Eph 4:16.
249. Acts 20:32.
250. Cf. 1 Cor 12:13.
251. LG 7 # 2.
252. LG 12 # 2; cf. AA 3.
253. Cf. 1 Cor 13.
254. LG 12; cf. 30; 1 Thess 5:12, 19-21; John Paul II, Christifideles Laici, 24.
255. 1 Cor 12:7.
256. LG 8.
257. Cf. DS 2888.
258. Vatican Council I, DS Filius 3: DS 3013.
259. UR 2 # 5.
260. GS 78 # 3.
261. UR 2 # 2.
262. St. Clement Of Alexandria, Paed. 1, 6, 42: PG 8,300.
263. LG 13 # 2.
264. Eph 4:3.
265. Col 3:14.
266. Cf. UR 2; LG 14; CIC, can. 205.
267. LG 8 # 2.
268. UR 3 # 5.
269. UR 3 # 1.
270. Cf. CIC, can. 751.
271. Origen, Hom. in E Zech. 9, 1: PG 13, 732.
272. UR 3 # 1.
273. LG 8 # 2.
274. UR 3 # 2; cf. LG 15.
275. Cf. UR 3.
276. Cf. LG 8.
277. UR 4 # 3.
278. Jn 17:21; cf. Heb 7:25.
279. Cf. UR 1.
280. Cf. UR 6.
281. UR 7 # 3.
282. UR 8 # 1.
283. Cf. UR 9.
284. Cf. UR 10.
285. Cf. UR 4; 9; 11.
286. Cf. UR 12.
287. UR 5.
288. UR 24 # 2.
289. LG 39; Cf. Eph 5 25-26.
290. LG 12.
291. Acts 9:13; 1 Cor 61; 16 1.
292. SC 10.
293. UR 3 # 5.
294. LG 48.
295. LG 48 # 3.
296. LG 11 # 3.
297. LG 42.
298. St. Therese of Lisieux, Autobiography of a Saint, tr. Ronald Knox (London: Harvill, 1958) 235.
299. LG 8 # 3; Cf. UR 3; 6; Heb 2:17; 726; 2 Cor 5:21.
300. Cf. 1 Jn 1:8-10.
301. Cf. Mt 13:24-30.
302. Paul VI, CPG # 19.
303. Cf. LG 40; 48-51.
304. John Paul II, CL 16, 3.
305. CL 17, 3.
306. LG 65; Cf. Eph 5:26-27.
307. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Smyrn. 8, 2: Apostolic Fathers, II/2, 311.
308. UR 3; AG 6; Eph 1:22-23.
309. Cf. AG 4.
310. Cf. Mt 28:19.
311. LG 13 paragraphs 1-2; cf. Jn 11:52.
312. LG 26.
313. Cf. CD 11; CIC, cann. 368-369; CCEO, cann. 177,1; 178; 311,1; 312.
314. LG 23.
315. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom. 1, 1: Apostolic Fathers, II/2, 192; cf. LG 13.
316. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 3, 2: PG 7/1, 849; Cf. Vatican Council I DS 3057.
317. St. Maximus the Confessor, Opuscula theo.: PG 91 137-140.
318. Paul VI, EN 62.
319. LG 23.
320. LG 13.
321. LG 14.
322. LG 15.
323. UR 3.
324. Paul VI, Discourse, December 14, 1975; cf. UR 13-18.
325. LG 16.
326. Cf. NA 4.
327. Roman Missal, Good Friday 13: General Intercessions, VI.
328. Rom 9:4-5.
329. Rom 11:29.
330. LG 16; cf. NA 3.
331. NA 1.
332. LG 16; cf. NA 2; EN 53.
333. LG 16; cf. Rom 1:21, 25.
334. St. Augustine, Serm. 96, 7, 9: PL 38, 588; St. Ambrose, De virg. 18, 118: PL 16, 297B; cf. already 1 Pet 3:20-21.
335. Cf. Cyprian, Ep. 73.21: PL 3, 1169; De unit.: PL 4, 509-536.
336. LG 14; cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:5.
337. LG 16; cf. DS 3866-3872.
338. AG 7; cf. Heb 11:6; 1 Cor 9:16.
339. AG 1; cf. Mt 16:15.
340. Mt 28:19-20.
341. AG 2.
342. Cf. John Paul II, RMiss 23.
343. 2. Cor 5:14; cf. AA 6; RMiss 11.
344. 1 Tim 2:4.
345. John Paul II, RMiss 21.
346. AG 5.
347. Tertullian, Apol. 50, 13: PL 1, 603.
348. GS 43 # 6.
349. LG 8 # 3; 15; AG 1 # 3; cf. RMiss 12-20.
350. LG 8 # 3.
351. GS 40 # 2.
352. Cf. RMiss 42 47.
353. AG 15 # 1.
354. Cf. RMiss 48-49.
355. Cf. RMiss 52-54.
356. AG 6 # 2.
357. Cf. RMiss 50.
358. UR 4 # 8.
359. Cf. RMiss 55.
360. AG 9.
361. AG 9.
362. Eph 2:20; Rev 21:14.
363. Cf. Mt 28:16-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor 9:1; 15:7-8; Gal 1:1; etc.
364. Cf. Acts 2:42.
365. Cf. 2 Tim 1:13-14.
366. AG 5.
367. Roman Missal, Preface of the Apostles I.
368. Mk 3:13-14.
369. Jn 20:21; cf. 13:20; 17:18.
370. Mt 10:40; cf. Lk 10:16.
371. Jn 5:19, 30; cf. Jn 15:5.
372. 2 Cor 3:6; 6:4; 5:20; 1 Cor 4:1.
373. LG 20; cf. Mt 28:20.
374. LG 20; cf. Acts 20:28; St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 42, 44: PG 1, 291-300.
375. LG 20 # 2.
376. LG 20 # 2.
377. AA 2.
378. AA 4; cf. Jn 15:5.
379. AA 3.
380. Rev 19:6.
381. Eph 1:4.
382. Rev 21:9.
383. Rev 21:10-11.
384. Rev 21:14.
385. CIC, Can. 204 para 1; Cf. LG 31.
386. CIC, Can. 208; Cf. LG 32.
387. AA 2.
388. CIC, Can. 207 # 2.
389. LG 18.
390. Rom 10:14:15.
391. Rom 10:17.
392. Cf. Rom 1:1.
393. Phil 2:7.
394. Cf. 1 Cor 9:19.
395. AG 5.
396. Cf. Jn 17:21-23.
397. Jn 21:22; Cf. Mt 4:19. 21; Jn 1:4.
398. LG 19; cf. Lk 6:13; Jn 21:15-17.
399. LG 22; cf. CIC, can. 330.
400. Cf. Mt 16:18-19; Jn 21:15-17.
401. LG 22 # 2.
402. LG 23.
403. LG 22; cf. CD 2,9.
404. LG 22; cf. CIC, can 336.
405. CIC, can. 337 # 1.
406. LG 22.
407. LG 22.
408. LG 23.
409. LG 23.
410. Cf. CD 3.
411. LG 23.
412. Cf. Gal 2:10.
413. Cf. Apostolic Constitutions 34.
414. LG 23 # 3.
415. PO 4; cf. Mk 16:15.
416. LG 25.
417. LG 12; cf. DV 10.
418. LG 25; cf. Vatican Council I: DS 3074.
419. DV 10 # 2.
420. LG 25 # 2.
421. Cf. LG 25.
422. LG 25.
423. LG 26.
424. 1 Pet 5:3.
425. LG 26 # 3.
426. LG 27; cf. Lk 22:26-27.
427. LG 27.
428. LG 27 # 2.
429. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Smyrn. 8, 1: Apostolic Fathers, II/2, 309.
430. LG 31.
431. LG 31 # 2.
432. Pius XII, Discourse, February 20, 1946: AAS 38 (1946) 149; quoted by John Paul II, CL 9.
433. Cf. LG 33.
434. LG 34; cf. LG 10, 1 Pet 2:5.
435. CIC, can. 835 # 4.
436. Cf. CIC, can. 230 # 1.
437. CIC, can. 230 # 3.
438. LG 35.
439. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh. III, 71, 4 ad 3.
440. LG 35 # 1, # 2.
441. AA 6 # 3; cf. AG 15.
442. Cf. CIC, cann. 229; 774; 776; 780; 823 # 1.
443. CIC, can. 212 # 3.
444. Cf. Phil 2:8-9.
445. LG 36.
446. St. Ambrose, Psal 118:14:30: PL 15:1476.
447. LG 36 # 3.
448. Paul VI, EN 73.
449. CIC, can. 129 # 2.
450. Cf. CIC, cann. 443 # 4; 463 # 1 and 2; 492 # 1; 511; 517 # 2; 536; 1421 # 2.
451. LG 36 # 4.
452. LG 33 # 2; cf. Eph 4:7.
453. LG 44 # 4.
454. Cf. LG 42-43; PC 1.
455. Cf. PC 5.
456. Cf. CIC, can. 573.
457. LG 43.
458. PC 1.
459. Cf. CIC, can. 605.
460. CIC, can. 603 # 1.
460a. Cf. 1 Cor 7:34-36. 
460b. Cf. John Paul II, Vita consecrata 7. 
461. Mt 19:12.
462. CIC, can. 604 # 1.
463. OCV Praenotanda 1.
464. Cf. CIC, can. 604 # 1; OCV Praenotanda 2.
465. Cf. CIC, can. 604 # 2.
466. Cf. CIC, cann. 607; 573; UR 15.
467. Cf. CD 33-35; CIC, can. 591.
468. Cf. AG 18; 40.
469. John Paul II, RMiss 69.
470. CIC, can. 710.
471. Pius XII, Provida Mater; cf. PC 11.
472. Cf. CIC, can. 713 # 2.
473. Cf. CIC, can. 731 ## 1 and 2.
474. CIC, can. 783; cf. RM 69.
475. LG 31 # 2.
476. LG 44 # 3.
477. Nicetas, Expl. Symb., 10: PL 52:871B.
478. St. Thomas Aquinas, Symb., 10.
479. Roman Catechism I, 10, 24.
480. Acts 2:42.
481. Roman Catechism 1, 10, 24.
482. LG 12 # 2.
483. 1 cor 12:7.
484. Acts 4:32.
485. Roman Catechism 1, 10, 27.
486. Cf. Lk 16:1, 3.
487. Rom 14:7.
488. 1 Cor 12:26-27.
489. 1 Cor 13:5; cf. 10:24.
490. LG 49; cf. Mt 25:31; 1 Cor 15:26-27; Council of Florence (1439): DS 1305.
491. LG 49; cf. Eph 4:16.
492. LG 49.
493. LG 49; cf. 1 Tim 2:5.
494. St. Dominic, dying, to his brothers.
495. St. Therese of Lisieux, The Final Conversations, tr. John Clarke (Washington: ICS, 1977), 102.
496. LG 50; cf. Eph 4:1-6.
497. Martyrium Polycarpi, 17: Apostolic Fathers II/3, 396.
498. LG 50; cf. 2 Macc 12:45.
499. LG 51; d. Heb 3:6.
500. LG 53; cf. St. Augustine, De virg. 6: PL 40,399.
501. Paul VI, Discourse, November 21,1964.
502. LG 57.
503. LG 58; cf. Jn 19:26-27.
504. LG 69.
505. LG 59.
506. LG 59; cf. Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus (1950): DS 3903; cf. Rev 19:16.
507. Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion, Feast of the Dormition, August 15th.
508. LG 53; 63.
509. LG 61.
510. LG 62.
511. LG 60.
512. LG 62.
513. Lk 1:48; Paul VI, MC 56.
514. LG 66.
515. Cf. Paul VI, MC 42; SC 103.
516. LG 69.
517. LG 68; Cf. 2 Pet 3:10.
518. Jn 20:22-23.
519. Mk 16:15-16.
520. Rom 6:4; Cf. 4:25.
521. Roman Catechism I, 11,3.
522. Roman Catechism I, 11,4.
523. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1672; Cf. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 39,17: PG 36,356.
524. Lk 24:47.
525. 2 Cor 5:18.
526. St. Augustine, Sermo 214, 11: PL 38, 1071-1072.
527. Roman Catechism I, 11, 5.
528. Cf. Mt 18:21-22.
529. Cf. St. Ambrose, De poenit. I, 15: PL 16, 490.
530. John Chrysostom, De sac. 3, 5: PG 48, 643.
531. St. Augustine, Sermo 213, 8: PL 38,1064.
532. Cf. Jn 6:39-40.
533. Rom 8:11; cf. 1 Thess 4:14; 1 Cor 6:14; 2 Cor 4:14; Phil 3:10-11.
534. Cf. Gen 6:3; Ps 56:5; Isa 40:6.
535. Rom 8:11.
536. Tertullian, De res, 1,1: PL 2, 841.
537. 1 Cor 15:12-14.
538. 2 Macc 7:9.
539. 2 Macc 7:14; cf. 7:29; Dan 12:1-13.
540. Mk 12:24; cf. In 11:24; Acts 23:6.
541. Mk 12:27.
542. Jn 11:25.
543. Cf. Jn 5:24-25; 6:40, 54.
544. Cf. Mk 5:21-42; Lk 7:11-17; Jn 11.
545. Mt 12:39.
546. Cf. Mk 10:34; Jn 2:19-22.
547. Acts 1:22; 10:41; cf. 4:33.
548. Cf. Acts 17:32; 1 Cor 15:12-13.
549. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 88, 5: PL 37, 1134.
550. Jn 5:29; cf. Dan 12:2.
551. Lk 24:39.
552. Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 801; Phil 3:21; 2 Cor 15:44.
553. 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42, 52, 53.
554. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 18, 4-5: PG 7/1, 1028-1029.
555. Jn 6: 39-40, 44, 54; 11:24; LG 48 # 3.
556. 1 Thess 4:16.
557. Col 2:12; 3:1.
558. Col 3:3; cf. Phil 3:20.
559. Eph 2:6.
560. Col 3:4.
561. 1 Cor 6:13-15, 19-20.
562. 2 Cor 5:8.
563. Cf. Phil 1:23.
564. Cf. Paul VI, CPG # 28.
565. GS 18.
566. Rom 6:23; cf. Gen 2:17.
567. Cf. Rom 6:3-9; Phil 3:10-11.
568. Eccl 12:1, 7.
569. Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:3; 3:19; Wis 1:13; Rom 5:12; 6:23; DS 1511.
570. Cf. Wis 2:23-24.
571. GS 18 # 2; cf. 1 Cor 15:26.
572. Cf. Mk 14:33-34; Heb 5:7-8.
573. Cf. Rom 5:19-21.
574. Phil 1:21.
575. 2 Tim 2:11.
576. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom., 6, 1-2: Apostolic Fathers, II/2, 217-220.
577. Phil 1:23.
578. Cf. Lk 23:46.
579. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom., 6, 1- 2: Apostolic Fathers, II/2, 223-224.
580. St. Teresa of Avila, Life, chap. 1.
581. St. Therese of Lisieux, The Last Conversations.
582. Cf. 1 Thess 4:13-14.
583. Roman Missal, Preface of Christian Death I.
584. LG 48 # 3.
585. Heb 9:27.
586. Roman Missal, Litany of the saints.
587. The Imitation of Christ, 1, 23, 1.
588. St. Francis of Assisi Canticle of the Creatures.
589. OCF, Prayer of Commendation.
590. Cf. 2 Tim 1:9-10.
591. Cf. Lk 16:22; 23:43; Mt 16:26; 2 Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23; Heb 9:27; 12:23.
592. Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274): DS 857-858; Council of Florence (1439): DS 1304- 1306; Council of Trent (1563): DS 1820.
593. Cf. Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000-1001; John XXII, Ne super his (1334): DS 990.
594. Cf. Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1002.
595. St. John of the Cross, Dichos 64.
596. 1 Jn 3:2; cf. 1 Cor 13:12; Rev 22:4.
597. Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000; cf. LG 49.
598. Phil 1:23; cf. Jn 14:3; 1 Thess 4:17.
599. Cf. Rev 2:17.
600. St. Ambrose, In Luc., 10, 121: PL 15, 1834A.
601. 1 Cor 2:9.
602. St. Cyprian, Ep. 58, 10, 1: CSEL 3/2, 665.
603. Rev 22:5; cf. Mt 25:21, 23.
604. Cf. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1304; Council of Trent (1563): DS 1820; (1547): 1580; see also Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS
1000.
605. Cf. 1 Cor 3:15; 1 Pet 1:7.
606. St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4, 39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:31.
607. 2 Macc 12:46.
608. Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274): DS 856.
609. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in 1 Cor. 41, 5: PG 61, 361; cf. Job 1:5.
610. 1 Jn 3:14-15.
611. Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
612. Cf. Mt 5:22, 29; 10:28; 13:42, 50; Mk 9:43-48.
613. Mt 13:41-42.
614. Mt 25:41.
615. Cf. DS 76; 409; 411; 801; 858; 1002; 1351; 1575; Paul VI, CPG # 12.
616. Mt 7:13-14.
617. LG 48 # 3; Mt 22:13; cf. Heb 9:27; Mt 25:13, 26, 30, 31 46.
618. Cf. Council of Orange II (529): DS 397; Council of Trent (1547):1567.
619. 2 Pet 3:9.
620. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 88.
621. Acts 24:15.
622. Jn 5:28-29.
623. Mt 25:31, 32, 46.
624. Cf. Jn 12:49.
625. St. Augustine, Sermo 18, 4: PL 38, 130-131; cf. Ps 50:3.
626. Cf. Song 8:6.
627. 2 Cor 6:2.
628. Titus 2:13; 2 Thess 1:10.
629. LG 48; Cf. Acts 3:21; Eph 1:10; Col 1:20; 2 Pet 3:10-13.
630. 2 Pet 3:13; Cf. Rev 21:1.
631. Eph 1:10.
632. Cf. Rev 21:5.
633. Rev 21:4.
634. Cf. LG 1.
635. Rev 21:2, 9.
636. Cf. Rev 21:27.
637. Rom 8:19-23.
638. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 5, 32, 1 PG 7/2, 210.
639. GS 39 # 1.
640. GS 39 # 2.
641. GS 39 # 3.
642. 1 Cor 5:28.
643. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. illum. 18, 29: PG 33, 1049.
644. Cf. Rev 22:21.
645. Isa 65:16.
646. Cf. Mt 6:2, 5, 16; Jn 5:19.
647. St. Augustine, Sermo 58, 11, 13: PL 38, 399.
648. Rev 3:14.
649. 2 Cor 1:20. 


PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

1. Eph 1:9.
2. Eph 3:9; cf. 3:4.
3. SC 5 # 2; cf. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 138, 2: PL 37, 1784-1785.
4. SC 2.
5. Cf. Jn 17:4.
6. Cf. Lk 1:23; Acts 13:2; Rom 15:16, 27; 2 Cor 9:12; Phil 2:14-17, 25, 30.
7. Cf. Heb 8:2, 6.
8. SC 7 # 2-3.
9. SC 11.
10. SC 9.
11. Eph 2:4; 3:16-17.
12. Eph 6:18.
13. SC 10.
14. John Paul II, CT 23.
15. Cf. SC 3-4. 


SECTION ONE: THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY

CHAPTER ONE - THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH

l Cf. SC 6; LG 2.
2. 1 Cor 11:26.
3. Eph 1:3-6.
4. eu-logia, bene-dictio.
5. Lk 10:21.
6. 2. Cor 9:15.
7. Eph 1:6.
8. Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27; 9:12; cf. Jn 13:1; 17:1.
9. SC 6.
10. Cf. Jn 20:21-23.
11. SC 7; Mt 18:20.
12. SC 7.
13. SC 8; cf. LG 50.
14. LG 2.
15. Cf. DV 14-16; Lk 24:13-49.
16. Cf. 2 Cor 3:14-16.
17. Cf. 1 Pet 3:21.
18. Jn 6:32; cf. 1 Cor 10:1-6.
19. Cf. Jn 14:26.
20. SC 24.
21. PO 4.
22. DV 2.
23. Cf. Rom 12:1.
24. St. John Damascene, De fide orth 4, 13: PG 94, 1145A.
25. Cf. Eph 1:14; 2 Cor 1:22.
26. Cf. Jn 15:1-17; Gal 5:22.
27. Cf. 1 Jn 1:3-7.
28. 2 cor 13:13.
29. Cf. SC 6.
30. Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274) DS 860; Council of Florence (1439) DS 1310; Council of Trent (1547): DS 1601.
31. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1600-1601.
32. St. Leo the Great Sermo. 74, 2: PL 54, 398.
33. Cf. Lk 5:17; 6:19; 8:46.
34. Jn 16:13; cf. Mt 13:52; 1 Cor 4:1.
35. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 22, 17: PL 41, 779; cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 64,2 ad 3.
36. LG 11; cf. Pius XII, Mystici Corporis (1943).
37. LG 11 # 2.
38. Cf. LG 10 # 2.
39. Cf. Jn 20:21-23; Lk 24:47; Mt 28:18-20.
40. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1609.
41. Lk 24:47.
42. Mt 28:19.
43. PO 4 # 1, 2.
44. SC 59.
45. Ep. 8.
46. Cf. DV 8.
47. Cf. UR 2; 15.
48. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1605; DS 1606.
49. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1608.
50. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 68, 8.
51. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1604.
52. Cf. 2 Pet 1:4.
53. 1 Cor 11:26; 15:28.
54. 1 Cor 16:22.
55. Lk 22:15.
56. Titus 2:13.
57. Rev 22:17, 20.
58. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 60, 3. 


CHAPTER TWO - THE SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATION OF THE PASCHAL MYSTERY

1. Rev 4:2, 8; Isa 6:1; cf. Ezek 1:26-28.
2. Rev 5:6; Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Anaphora; cf. Jn 1:29; Heb 4:14-15; 10:19-2.
3. Rev 22:1; cf. 21:6; Jn 4:10-14.
4. Cf. Rev 4-5; 7:1-8; 14:1; Isa 6:2-3.
5. Rev 6:9-11; Rev 21:9; cf. 12.
6. Rev 7:9.
7. SC 26.
8. SC 27.
9. LG 10; cf. 1 Pet 2:4-5.
10. Cf. LG 10; 34; PO 2.
11. SC 14; Cf. 1 Pet 2:9; 2:4-5.
12. Rom 12:4.
13. Cf. PO 2; 15.
14. SC 29.
15. SC 28.
16. Cf. Wis 13:1; Rom 1:19f; Acts 14:17.
17. Cf. Lk 8:10.
18. Cf. Jn 9:6; Mk 7:33ff.; 8:22ff.
19. Cf. Lk 9:31; 22:7-20.
20. SC 112.
21. Eph 5:19; St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 72,1: PL 36, 914; cf. Col 3:16.
22. SC 112 # 3.
23. Cf. SC 112.
24. St. Augustine, Conf. 9, 6, 14: PL 32, 769-770.
25. Cf. SC 119.
26. SC 118; 121.
27. St. John Damascene, De imag. 1, 16: PG 96: 1245-1248.
28. Council of Nicaea II (787): COD 111.
29. Heb 12:1.
30. Cf. Rom 8:29; 1 Jn 3:2.
31. Council of Nicaea II: DS 600.
32. St. John Damascene, De imag. 1, 27: PG 94, 1268A, B.
33. SC 102.
34. Cf. Mt 6:11; Heb 3:7-4:11; Ps 95:7.
35. St. Hippolytus, De pasch. 1-2 SCh 27, 117.
36. SC 106.
37. Byzantine liturgy.
38. Cf. Jn 21:12; Lk 24:30.
39. St. Jerome, Pasch.: CCL 78, 550.
40. SC 106.
41. Fanqith, The Syriac Office of Antioch, vol. VI, first part of Summer, 193 B.
42. Lk 4:19.
43. St. Athanasius (ad 329) ep. fest. 1: PG 24, 1366.
44. SC 103.
45. SC 104; cf. SC 108, 111.
46. Cf. SC, Ch. IV, 83-101.
47. SC 84; 1 Thess 5:17; Eph 6:18.
48. SC 98.
49. SC 84.
50. SC 83.
51. SC 100; Cf. 86; 96; 98; PO 5.
52. SC 90.
53. Jn 4:24.
54. 1 Pet 2:4-5.
55. 2 Cor 6:16.
56. Cf. DH 4.
57. PO 5; Cf. SC 122-127.
58. Cf. SC 7.
59. Cf. Heb 13:10.
60. Cf. GIRM 259.
61. Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei: AAS (1965) 771.
62. Cf. SC 128.
63. GIRM 271.
64. GIRM 272.
65. Rev 21:4.
66. Cf. Paul VI, EN 63-64.
67. 2. Tim 1:14 (Vulg.).
68. Cf. LG 23; UR 4.
69. SC 4.
70. Cf. SC 37-40.
71. Rom 16:26.
72. Cf. CT 53.
73. John Paul II, Vicesimus quintus annus, 16; cf. SC 21.
74. John Paul II, Vicesimus quintus annus, 16. 


SECTION TWO: THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER ONE: THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION

1. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 65, 1.
2. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 65, 3.
3. Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Divinae consortium naturae: AAS 63. (1971) 657; cf. RCIA Introduction 1-2.
4. Cf. Council of Florence: DS 1314: vitae spiritualis ianua.
5. Roman Catechism II, 2, 5; Cf. Council of Florence: DS 1314; CIC, cann. 204 # 1; 849; CCEO, can. 675 # 1.
6. 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15; Cf. Rom 6:34; Col 2:12.
7. Titus 3:5; Jn 3:5.
8. St. Justin, Apol. 1, 61, 12: PG 6, 421.
9. Jn 1:9; 1 Thess 5:5; Heb 10:32; Eph 5:8.
10. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 40, 3-4: PG 36, 361C.
11. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 42: Blessing of Water.
12. Cf. Gen 1:2.
13. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 42: Blessing of Water.
14. 1. Pet 3:20.
15. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 42: Blessing of Water.
16. Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 42: Blessing of Water: "Abrahae filios per mare Rubrum sicco vestigio transire fecisti, ut plebs, a Pharaonis servitute liberata,
populum baptizatorum praefiguraret."
17. Cf. Mt 3:13.
18. Mt 28:19-20; cf. Mk 16:15-16.
19. Mt 3:15.
20. Cf. Phil 2:7.
21. Mt 3:16-17.
22. Mk 10:38; cf. Lk 12:50.
23. Cf. Jn 19:34; 1 Jn 5:6-8.
24. Cf. Jn 3:5.
25. St. Ambrose, De sacr. 2, 2, 6: PL 16, 444; cf. Jn 3:5.
26. Acts 2:38.
27. Cf. Acts 2:41; 8:12-13; 10:48; 16:15.
28. Acts 16:31-33.
29. Rom 6:3-4; cf. Col 2:12.
30. Gal 3:27.
31. CE 1 Cor 6:11; 12:13.
32. 1 Pet 1:23; cf. Eph 5:26.
33. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 80, 3: PL 35, 1840.
34. SC 64.
35. Cf. RCIA (1972).
36. SC 65; cf. SC 37-40.
37. Cf. AG 14; CIC, cann. 851; 865; 866.
38. Cf. CIC, cann. 851, 20; 868.
39. Cf. Rom 6:17.
40. Jn 3:5.
41. Cf. RBC 62.
42. Gal 3:27.
43. Mt 5:14; cf. Phil 2:15.
44. Rev 19:9.
45. Mk 10 14.
46. CIC, can. 864; cf. CCEO, can. 679.
47. AG 14; cf. RCIA 19; 98.
48. AG 14 # 5.
49. LG 14 # 3; cf. CIC, cann. 206; 788 # 3. 
50 Cf. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1514; cf. Col 1:12-14.
51. Cf. CIC, can. 867; CCEO, cann. 681; 686, 1.
52. Cf. LG 11; 41; GS 48; CIC, can. 868.
53. Cf. Acts 16:15, 33; 18:8; 1 Cor 1:16; CDF, introduction, Pastoralis actio: AAS 72 (1980) 1137-1156.
54. Cf. Mk 16:16.
55. Cf. CIC, cann. 872-874.
56. Cf. SC 67.
57. Cf. CIC, can. 861 # 1; CCEO, can. 677 # 1.
57a. CIC, can. 861.2.
58. Cf. 1 Tim 2:4.
59. Cf. Jn 3:5.
60. Cf. Mt 28:19-20; cf. Council of Trent (1547) DS 1618; LG 14; AG 5.
61. Cf. Mk 16:16.
62. GS 22 # 5; cf. LG 16; AG 7.
63. Mk 10 14; cf. 1 Tim 2:4.
64. Cf. Acts 2:38; Jn 3:5.
65. Cf. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1316.
66. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1515.
67. 2 Tim 2:5.
68. 2 Cor 5:17; 2 Pet 1:4; cf. Gal 4:5-7.
69. Cf. l Cor 6:15; 12:27; Rom 8:17.
70. Cf. l Cor 6:19.
71. Eph 4:25.
72. 1 Cor 12:13.
73. 1 Pet 2:5.
74. 1 Pet 2:9.
75. Cf. 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 5:15.
76. Heb 13:17.
77. Cf. Eph 5:21; 1 Cor 16:15-16; 1 Thess 5:12-13; Jn 13:12-15.
78. Cf. LG 37; CIC, cann. 208 223; CCEO, can. 675:2.
79. LG 11; cf. LG 17; AG 7; 23.
80. UR 3.
81. UR 22 # 2.
82. Cf. Rom 8:29; Council of Trent (1547): DS 1609-1619.
83. Cf. LG 11.
84. Cf. LG 10.
85. St. Augustine, Ep. 98, 5: PL 33, 362; Eph 4:30; cf. 1:13-14; 2 Cor 1:21-22.
86. St. Irenaeus, Dem ap. 3: SCh 62, 32.
87. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 97.
88. Cf. Roman Ritual, Rite of Confirmation ( OC), Introduction 1.
89. LG 11; Cf. OC, Introduction 2.
90. Cf. Isa 11:2; 61:1; Lk 4:16-22.
91. Cf. Mt 3:13-17; Jn 1:33-34.
92. Jn 3:34.
93. Cf. Ezek 36:25-27; Joel 3:1-2.
94. Cf. Lk 12:12; Jn 3:5-8; 7:37-39; 16:7-15; Acts 1:8.
95. Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14.
96. Acts 2:11; Cf. 2:17-18.
97. Cf. Acts 2:38.
98. Paul VI, Divinae consortium naturae, 659; Cf. Acts 8:15-17; 19:5-6; Heb 6:2.
99. Acts 10:38.
100. Cf. CCEO, Can. 695 # 1; 696 # 1.
101. Cf. St. Hippolytus, Trad. Ap. 21 SCh 11, 80-95.
102. Cf. Deut 11:14; Pss 23:5; 104:15.
103. Cf. Isa 1:6; Lk 1034.
104. 2 Cor 2:15.
105. Cf Gen 38:18; 41:42; Deut 32:34; CT 8:6.
106. Cf. 1 Kings 21:8; Jer 32:10; Isa 29:11.
107. Cf. Jn 6:27.
108. 2. Cor 1:21-22; cf. Eph 1:13; 4, 30.
109. Cf. Rev 7:2-3; 9:4; Ezek 9:4-6.
110. Cf. SC 71.
111. Cf. CIC, can. 866.
112. OC 25.
113. Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Divinae consortium naturae, 663.
113a. Rituale per le Chiese orientali di rito bizantino in lingua greca, Pars Prima (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1954) 36.
114. Cf. St. Hippolytus, Trad. Ap. 21 SCh 11, 80-95.
115. Rom 8:15.
116. Cf. LG 11.
117. Cf. Council of Florence (1439) DS 1319; LG 11; 12.
118. SL Ambrose, De myst. 7, 42 PL 16, 402-403.
119. Cf. Council of Trent (1547) DS 1609; Lk 24:48-49.
120. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 72, 5, ad 2.
121. Cf. CIC, can. 889 # 1.
122. CIC, can. 890.
123. Cf. CIC, cann. 891; 883, 3.
124. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 72, 8, ad 2; Cf. Wis 4:8.
125. Cf. OC Introduction 3.
126. Cf. Acts 1:14.
127. Cf. OC Introduction 5; 6; CIC, Can. 893 ## 1- 2.
128. Cf. LG 26.
129. Cf. CIC, Can. 883 # 2.
130. Cf. CIC, Can. 882.
131. Cf. CIC, Can. 884 # 2.
132. Cf. CIC, Can. 883 # 3.
133. SC 47.
134. LG 11.
135. PO 5.
136. Congregation of Rites, introduction, Eucharisticum mysterium, 6.
137. Cf. 1. Cor 15:28.
138. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 18, 5: PG 7/l, 1028.
139. Cf. Lk 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24.
140. Cf. Mt 26:26; Mk 14:22.
141. Cf. 1 Cor 11:20; Rev 19:9.
142. Cf. Mt 14:19; 15:36; Mk 8:6, 19.
143. Cf. Mt 26:26; 1 Cor 11:24.
144. Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
145. Cf. Acts 2:42, 46; 20:7, 11.
146. Cf. 1 Cor 10:16-17.
147. Cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34.
148. Heb 13:15; cf. 1 Pet 25; Ps 116:13, 17; Mal 1:11.
149. Cf. 1 Cor 1016-17.
150. Apostolic Constitutions 8, 13,12 PG 1,1108; Didache 9, 5; 10:6: SCh: 248,176- 178.
151. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 SCh 10, 76.
152. Cf. Ps 104:13-15.
153. Gen 14:18; cf. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 95.
154. Cf. Deut 8:3.
155. 1 Cor 10:16.
156. Cf. Mt 14:13-21; 15:32-39.
157. Cf. Jn 2:11; Mk 14:25.
158. Jn 6:60.
159. Jn 6:67.
160. In 6:68.
161. Cf. Jn 13:1-17; 34-35.
162. Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740.
163. Cf. Jn 6.
164. Lk 22:7-20; Cf. Mt 26:17-29; Mk 14:12-25; 1 Cor 11:23-26.
165. Cf. 2 Cor 11:26.
166. Acts 2:42, 46.
167. Acts 20:7.
168. AG 1; cf. 1 Cor 11:26.
169. St. Justin, Apol. 1, 65-67: PG 6, 428-429; the text before the asterisk (*) is from chap. 67.
170. SC 56.
171. Cf. DV 21.
172. Cf. Lk 24:13-35.
173. Cf. 1 Thess 2:13.
174. 1 Tim 2:1-2.
175. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 18, 4: PG 7/1, 1027; cf. Mal 1:11.
176. Cf. 1 Cor 16:1; 2 Cor 8:9.
177. St. Justin, Apol. 1, 67: PG 6, 429.
178. Cf. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 90.
179. Jn 6:51.
180. St. Justin, Apol. 1, 66,1-2: PG 6, 428.
181. 1 Cor 11:24-25.
182. Cf. Ex 13:3.
183. Cf. Heb 7:25-27.
184. LG 3; cf. 1 Cor 5:7.
185. Lk 22:19-20.
186. Mt 26:28.
187. Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740; cf. 1 Cor 11:23; Heb 7:24, 27.
188. Council of Trent (1562) Doctrina de ss. Missae sacrificio, c. 2: DS 1743; cf. Heb 9:14, 27.
189. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Smyrn. 8:1; SCh 10, 138.
190. PO 2 # 4.
191. Council of Trent (1562) DS 1743.
192. St. Monica, before her death, to her sons, St. Augustine and his brother; Conf. 9, 11, 27: PL 32, 775.
193. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5, 9. 10 PG 33, 1116-1117.
194. St. Augustine, De civ Dei, 10, 6: PL 41, 283; cf. Rom 12:5.
195. Rom 8:34; cf. LG 48.
196. Mt 18:20.
197. Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
198. SC 7.
199. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 73, 3c.
200. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1651.
201. Paul VI, MF 39.
202. St. John Chrysostom, prod. Jud. 1:6: PG 49, 380.
203. St. Ambrose, De myst. 9, 50; 52: PL 16, 405-407.
204. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1642; cf. Mt 26:26 ff.; Mk 14:22 ff.; Lk 22:19 ff.; 1 Cor 11:24 ff.
205. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1641.
206. Paul VI, MF 56.
207. Jn 13:1.
208. Cf. Gal 2:20.
209. John Paul II, Dominicae cenae, 3.
210. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 75, 1; cf. Paul VI, MF 18; St. Cyril of Alexandria, In Luc. 22, 19: PG 72, 912; cf. Paul VI, MF 18.
211. St. Thomas Aquinas (attr.), Adoro te devote; tr. Gerard Manley Hopkins.
212. St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5, 2, 7: PL 16, 447C.
213. St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 4, 2, 7: PL 16, 437D.
214. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 96: Supplices te rogamus, omnipotens Deus: iube haec perferri per manus sancti Angeli tui in sublime altare tuum,
in conspectu divinae maiestatis tuae: ut, quotquot ex hac altaris participatione sacrosanctum Filii Corpus et Sanguinem sumpserimus, omni benedictione
caelesti et gratia repleamur.
215. Jn 6:53.
216. 1 Cor 11:27-29.
217. Roman Missal, response to the invitation to communion; cf. Mt 8:8.
218. Cf. CIC, can. 919.
218a. Cf. CIC, can. 916.
219. Cf. CIC, can. 917; The faithful may receive the Holy Eucharist only a second time on the same day [Cf. Pontificia Commissio Codici luris Canonici
Authentice Intrepretando, Responsa ad proposita dubia, 1: AAS 76 (1984) 746-747. 
220. SC 55.
221. Cf. OE 15; CIC, can. 920.
222. GIRM 240.
223. Jn 6:56.
224. Jn 6:57.
225. Fanqith, Syriac Office of Antioch, Vol. 1, Commun., 237 a-b.
226. PO 5.
227. St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 4, 6, 28: PL 16, 446; cf. 1 Cor 11:26.
228. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1638.
229. St. Fulgentius of Ruspe, Contra Fab. 28, 16-19: CCL 19A, 813-814.
230. Cf. 1 Cor 12:13.
231. 1 Cor 10:16-17.
232. St. Augustine, Sermo 272: PL 38, 1247.
233. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in 1 Cor. 27, 4: PG 61, 229-230; cf. Mt 25:40.
234. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 26, 13: PL 35, 1613; cf. SC 47.
235. UR 15 # 2; cf. CIC, can. 844 # 3.
236. UR 22 # 3.
237. UR 22 # 3.
238. Cf. CIC, can. 844 # 4.
239. Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 96: Supplices te rogamus.
240. Mt 26:29; cf. Lk 22:18; Mk 14 25.
241. Rev 1:4; 22 20; 1 Cor 16 22.
242. Didache 10, 6: SCh 248,180.
243. Roman Missal 126, embolism after the Our Father: expectantes beatam spem et adventum Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi {... as we wait in joyful
expectation for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ - JHL}; cf. Titus 2:13.
244. EP III 116: prayer for the dead.
245. 2. Pet 3:13.
246. LG 3; St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2: SCh 10, 76. 


CHAPTER TWO: THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING

1. 2 Cor 4:7; Col 3:3.
2. 2. Cor 5:1.
3. Cf. Mk 2:1-12.
4. LG 11 # 2.
5. Cf. Mk 1:15; Lk 15:18.
6. OP 46 formula of absolution.
7. 2 Cor 5:20.
8. MT 5:24.
9. 1 Cor 6:11.
10. Gal 3:27.
11. 1 Jn 1:8.
12. Cf. Lk 11:4; Mt 6:12.
13. Eph 1:4; 5:27.
14. Cf. Council of Trent (1546) DS 1515.
15. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1545; LG 40.
16. Mk 1:15.
17. Cf. Acts 2:38.
18. LG 8 # 3.
19. Ps 51:17; cf. Jn 6:44; 12:32; 1 Jn 4:10.
20. Cf. Lk 22:61; Jn 21:15-17.
21. Rev 2:5, 16.
22. St. Ambrose, ep. 41, 12: PL 16, 1116.
23. Cf. Joel 2:12-13; Isa 1:16-17; Mt 6:1-6; 16-18.
24. Cf. Council of Trent (1551) DS 1676-1678; 1705; Cf. Roman Catechism, II, V, 4.
25. Cf. Ezek 36:26-27.
26. Lam 5:21.
27. Cf. Jn 19:37; Zech 12:10.
28. St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 7, 4 PG 1, 224.
29. Cf. Jn 16:8-9.
30. Cf. Jn 15:26; Acts 2:36-38; John Paul II, DeV 27-48.
31. Cf. Tob 12:8; Mt 6:1-18.
32. 1. Pet 4:8; Cf. Jas 5:20.
33. Cf. Am 5:24; Isa 1:17.
34. Cf. Lk 9:23.
35. Council of Trent (1551) DS 1638.
36. Cf. SC 109-110; CIC, cann. 1249-1253; CCEO, Cann. 880-883.
37. Cf. Lk 15:11-24.
38. Cf. LG 11.
39. Cf. Mk 2:7.
40. Mk 2:5, 10; Lk 7:48.
41. Cf. Jn 20:21-23.
42. 2 Cor 5:18.
43. 2 Cor 5:20.
44. Cf. Lk 15; 19:9.
45. Mt 16:19; cf. Mt 18:18; 28:16-20.
46. LG 22 # 2.
47. Tertullian, De Paenit. 4, 2: PL 1,1343; cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1542.
48. OP 46: formula of absolution.
49. Roman Catechism II, V, 21; cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1673.
50. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1676.
51. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1677.
52. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1678; 1705.
53. Cf. Mt 5-7; Rom 12-15; 1 Cor 12-13; Gal 5; Eph 4-6; etc.
54. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1680 ( ND 1626); cf. Ex 20:17; Mt 5:28.
55. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1680 ( ND 1626); cf. St. Jerome, In Eccl. 10, 11: PL 23:1096.
56. Cf. CIC, Can. 989; Council of Trent (1551): DS 1683; DS 1708.
57. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1647; 1661; CIC, can. 916; CCEO, can. 711.
58. Cf. CIC, can. 914.
59. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1680; CIC, can. 988 # 2.
60. Cf. Lk 6:36.
61. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 12, 13: PL 35, 1491.
62. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1712.
63. Rom 8:17; Rom 3:25; 1 Jn 2:1-2; cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1690.
64. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1691; cf. Phil 4:13; 1 Cor 1:31; 2 Cor 10:17; Gal 6:14; Lk 3:8.
65. Cf. In 20:23; 2 Cor 5:18.
66. Cf. LG 26 # 3.
67. Cf. CIC cann. 844; 967-969; 972; CCEO, can. 722 ## 3-4.
68. Cf. CIC, cann. 1331; 1354-1357; CCEO, can. 1431; 1434; 1420.
69. Cf. CIC, can. 976; CCEO, can. 725.
70. Cf. CIC, can. 486; CCEO, can. 735; PO 13.
71. Cf. PO 13.
72. Cf. CIC, can. 1388 # 1; CCEO, can. 1456.
73. Roman Catechism, II, V, 18.
74. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1674.
75. Cf. Lk 15:32.
76. Cf. 1 Cor 12:26.
77. Cf. LG 48-50.
78. John Paul II, RP 31, 5.
79. Cf. 1 Cor 5:11; Gal 5:19-21; Rev 22:15.
80. Jn 5:24.
81. Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Indulgentiarum doctrina, Norm 1.
82. Indulgentiarum doctrina, Norm 2; Cf. Norm 3.
82a. CIC, can. 994. br> 83. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1712-1713; (1563): 1820.
84. Eph 4:22, 24.
85. Indulgentiarum doctrina, 5.
86. Indulgentiarum doctrina, 5.
87. Indulgentiarum doctrina, 5.
88. Indulgentiarum doctrina, 5.
89. Cf. Indulgentiarum doctrina, 5.
90. Cf. SC 26-27.
91. Cf. CIC, can. 962 #1.
92. Cf. CIC, can. 961 # 2.
93. Cf. CIC, can. 961 # 1.
94. OP 31.
95. Mk 2:5.
96. Cf. Mk 2:17.
97. LG 11; cf. Jas 5:14-16; Rom 8:17; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 2:11-12; 1 Pet 4:13.
98. Cf. Pss 6:3; 38; Isa 38.
99. Cf. Pss 32:5; 38:5; 39:9, 12; 107:20; cf. Mk 2:5-12.
100. Ex 15:26.
101. Cf. Isa 53:11.
102. Cf. Isa 33:24.
103. Lk 7:16; cf. Mt 4:24.
104. Cf. Mk 2:5-12.
105. Cf. Mk 2:17.
106. Mt 25:36.
107. Cf. Mk 5:34, 36; 9:23.
108. Cf. Mk 7:32-36; 8:22-25.
109. Cf. Jn 9:6-7.
110. Lk 6:19; cf. Mk 1:41; 3:10; 6:56.
111. Mt 8:17; cf. Isa 53:4.
112. Jn 1:29; cf. Isa 53:4-6.
113. Cf. Mt 10:38.
114. Mk 6:12-13.
115. Mk 16:17-18.
116. Cf. Acts 9:34; 14:3.
117. Cf. Mt 1:21; Acts 4:12.
118. Cf. 1 Cor 12:9, 28, 30.
119. 2 Cor 12:9; Col 1:24.
120. Mt 10:8.
121. Cf. Jn 6:54, 58; 1 Cor 11:30.
122. Jas 5:14-15.
123. Cf. Council of Constantinople II (553) DS 216; Council of Florence (1439) 1324- 1325; Council of Trent (1551) 1695-1696; 1716-1717.
124. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1695; cf. Mk 6:13; Jas 5:14-15.
125. Cf. Council of Trent (1551) DS 1696.
126. Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Sacram unctionem infirmorum, November 30, 1972.
127. Cf. SC 73.
128. Cf. CIC, Can. 847 # 1.
129. SC 73; cf. CIC, Cann. 1004 # 1; 1005; 1007; CCEO, Can. 738.
130. Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1697; 1719; CIC, Can. 1003; CCEO, Can. 739 # 1.
131. Cf. SC 27.
132. Jas 5:14.
133. Cf. Jas 5:15.
134. Cf. Heb 2:15.
135. Cf. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1325.
136. Jas 515; cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1717.
137. LG 11 # 2.
138. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1698.
139. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1694.
140. Jn 6:54.
141. Cf. Jn 13:1. 


CHAPTER THREE: THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION

1. Cf. LG 10.
2. LG 11 # 2.
3. GS 48 # 2.
4. Cf. Heb 5:6; 7:11; Ps 110:4.
5. Cf. LG 10.
6. Ex 19:6; cf. Isa 61:6.
7. Cf. Num 1:48-53; Josh 13:33.
8. Heb 5:1; cf. Ex 29:1-30; Lev 8.
9. Cf. Mal 2:7-9.
10. Cf. Heb 5:3; 7:27; 101-4.
11. Cf. Num 11:24-25.
12. Roman Pontifical, Ordination of Bishops 26, Prayer of Consecration.
13. Roman Pontifical, Ordination of Priests 22, Prayer of Consecration.
14. Roman Pontifical, Ordination of Deacons 21, Prayer of Consecration.
15. 2 Tim 2:5.
16. Heb 5:10; cf. 6:20; Gen 14:18.
17. Heb 7:26.
18. Heb 10:14.
19. St. Thomas Aquinas, Hebr. 8, 4.
20. Rev 1:6; cf. Rev 5:9-10; 1 Pet 2:5, 9.
21. LG 10 # 1.
22. LG 10 # 2.
23. Cf. LG 10; 28; SC 33; CD 11; PO 2; 6.
24. Pius XII, encyclical, Mediator Dei: AAS, 39 (1947) 548.
25. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 22, 4c.
26. Cf. LG 21.
27. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Trall. 3, 1: SCh 10, 96; cf. Ad Magn. 6, 1: SCh 10, 82-84.
28. LG 24.
29. Cf. Mk 10 43-45; 1 Pet 5:3.
30. St. John Chrysostom, De sac. 2, 4: PG 48, 636; cf. Jn 21:15-17.
31. Cf. SC 33N; LG 10.
32. LG 28.
33. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Trall. 3,1: SCh 10, 96.
34. LG 20.
35. LG 21; Cf. Acts 1:8; 24; Jn 20:22-23; 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6-7.
36. LG 21 # 2.
37. LG 21.
38. CD 2 # 2.
39. LG 22.
40. Cf. LG 22.
41. Pius XII, Fidei donum: AAS 49 (1957) 237; cf. LG 23; CD 4; 36; 37; AG 5; 6; 38.
42. Cf. SC 41; LG 26.
43. LG 28; cf. Jn 10:36.
44. PO 2 # 2.
45. PO 2.
46. LG 28 cf. Heb 5:1-10; 7:24; 9:11-28; Innocent I, Epist. ad Decentium: PL 20, 554 A; St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 2, 22: PG 35, 432B.
47. PO 10; OT 20; cf. Acts 1:8.
48. OT 20.
49. LG 28; cf. 1 Cor 11:26.
50. Cf. PO 2.
51. LG 28 # 2.
52. PO 8.
53. LG 29; cf. CD 15.
54. Cf. St. Hippolytus, Trad. ap. 8: SCh 11, 58-62.
55. Cf. LG 41; AA 16.
56. Cf. Mk 10:45; Lk 22:27; St. Polycarp, Ad Phil. 5, 2: SCh 10, 182.
57. Cf. LG 29; SC 35 # 4; AG 16.
58. LG 29 # 2.
59. AG 16 # 6.
60. Cf. Pius XII, apostolic constitution, Sacramentum Ordinis: DS 3858.
61. Cf. Roman Missal, Preface of the Apostles I.
62. Cf. LG 21; Eph 4:11.
63. LG 21 # 2.
64. LG 20.
65. Cf. DS 794 and Cf. DS 802; CIC, can. 1012; CCEO, can. 744; 747.
66. CIC, can. 1024.
67. Cf. Mk 3:14-19; Lk 6:12-16; 1 Tim 3:1-13; 2 Tim 1:6; Titus 1:5-9; St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 42, 4; 44, 3: PG 1, 292-293; 300.
68. Cf. John Paul II, MD 26-27; CDF, declaration, Inter insigniores: AAS 69. (1977) 98-116.
69. Cf. Heb 5:4.
70. Mt 19:12.
71. 1 Cor 7:32.
72. Cf. PO 16.
73. Cf. PO 16.
74. Cf. Council of Trent: 1 DS 1767; LG 21; 28; 29; PO 2.
75. Cf. CIC, cann. 290-293; 1336 # 1 3, 5, 1338 # 2; Council of Trent DS 1774.
76. Cf. Council of Trent DS 1612; DS 1154.
77. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 5,15: PL 35, 1422.
78. Cf. Roman Pontifical, Ordination of Bishops 26, Prayer of Consecration; cf. CD 13; 16.
79. Roman Pontifical, Ordination of Bishops 26, Prayer of Consecration; cf. St. Hippolytus, Trad. ap. 3: SCh ll, 44-46.
80. Byzantine Liturgy, Euchologion.
81. LG 29.
82. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio 2, 71, 74, 73: PG 35, 480-481.
83. St. John Vianney, quoted in B. Nodet, Jean-Marie Vianney, Cure' d' Ars, 100.
84. CIC, can. 1055 # 1; cf. GS 48 # 1.
85. Rev 19:7, 9; cf. Gen 1:26-27.
86. 1 Cor 7:39; cf. Eph 5:31-32.
87. GS 48 # 1.
88. Cf. GS 47 # 2.
89. GS 47 # 1.
90. Cf. Gen 1:27; 1 Jn 4:8, 16.
91. Gen 1:28; cf. 1:31.
92. Gen 2:18.
93. Cf. Gen 2:18-25.
94. Gen 2:24.
95. Mt 19:6.
96. Cf. Gen 3:12.
97. Cf. Gen 2:22; 3:16b.
98. Cf. Gen 1:28; 3:16-19.
99. Cf. Gen 3:21.
100. Gen 3:16, 19.
101. Cf. Mt 19:8; Deut 24:1.
102. Cf. Hos 1-3; Isa 54; 62; Jer 2-3; 31; Ezek 16; 23; Mal 2:13-17.
103. Song 8:6-7.
104. Rev 19:7, 9; cf. GS 22.
105. Cf. Jn 2:1-11.
106. Cf. Mt 19:8.
107. Mt 19:6.
108. Cf. Mk 8:34; Mt 11:29-30.
109. Cf. Mt 19:11.
110. Eph 5:25-26, 31-32; Cf. Gen 2:24.
111. Cf. Eph 5:26-27.
112. Cf. DS 1800; CIC, Can. 1055 # 2.
113. Cf. Lk 14:26; Mk 10:28-31.
114. Cf. Rev 14:4; 1 Cor 7:32; Mt 2:56.
115. Mt 19:12.
116. Cf. Mk 12:25; 1 Cor 7:31.
117. Cf. Mt 19:3-12.
118. Cf. LG 42; PC 12; OT 10.
119. St. John Chrysostom, De virg. 10, 1 PG 48, 540; Cf. John Paul II, FC 16.
120. Cf. SC 61.
121. Cf. LG 6.
122. Cf. 1 Cor 10:17.
123. FC 67.
123a. Cf. CCEO, can. 817.
123b. Cf. CCEO, can. 828.
124. Cf. Eph 5:32.
125. CIC, can. 1057 # 1.
126. GS 48 # 1; OCM 45; cf. CIC, can. 1057 # 2.
127. Gen 2:24; cf. Mt 10:8; Eph 5:31.
128. Cf. CIC, can. 1103.
129. Cf. CIC, can. 1057 # 1.
130. Cf. CIC, cann. 1095-1107.
131. Cf. CIC, can. 1071.
132. Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1813-1816; CIC, can. 1108.
133. Cf. CIC, can. 1063.
134. GS 49 # 3.
135. Cf. CIC, can. 1124.
136. Cf. CIC, can. 1086.
137. Cf. CIC, can. 1125.
138. 1 Cor 7:14.
139. Cf. 1 Cor 7:16.
140. Cf. CIC, can. 1134.
141. Cf. Mk 10:9.
142. GS 48 # 1.
143. GS 48 # 2.
144. Cf. CIC, can. 1141.
145. LG 11 # 2.
146. LG 11 # 2; cf. LG 41.
147. GS 48 # 2.
148. Eph 5:21; cf. Gal 6:2.
149. Tertullian, Ad uxorem. 2, 8, 6-7: PL 1, 1412-1413; cf. FC 13.
150. FC 13.
151. Mt 19:6; cf. Gen 2:24.
152. FC 19.
153. GS 49 # 2.
154. Cf. FC 19.
155. GS 48 # 1.
156. Cf. FC 20.
157. Cf. FC 83; CIC, cann. 1151-1155.
158. Mk 10:11-12.
159. FC 84.
160. GS 48 # 1; 50.
161. GS 50 # 1; cf. Gen 2:18; Mt 19:4; Gen 1:28.
162. Cf. GE 3.
163. Cf. FC 28.
164. Cf. Acts 18:8.
165. Cf. Acts 16:31; Acts 11:14.
166. LG 11; cf. FC 21.
167. LG 11.
168. LG 10.
169. GS 52 # 1.
170. FC 85; cf. Mt 11:28.
171. SC 60; Cf. CIC, can. 1166; CCEO, can. 867.
172. Cf. Gen 12:2; Lk 6:28; Rom 12:14; 1 Pet 3:9.
173. Cf. SC 79; CIC, can. 1168; De Ben 16, 18.
174. SC 61.
175. Eph 1:3.
176. Cf. Mk 1:25-26; 3:15; 6:7, 13; 16:17.
177. Cf. CIC, can. 1172.
178. Cf. Council of Nicaea II: DS 601; 603; Council of Trent: DS 1822.
179. SC 13 # 3.
180. Cf. John Paul II, CT 54.
181. CELAM, Third General Conference (Puebla, 1979), Final Document # 448 (tr. NCCB, 1979); cf. Paul VI, EN 48.
182. Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.
183. 2 Cor 5:8.
184. Cf. 1 Cor 15:42-44.
185. [cancelled]
186. Cf. SC 81.
187. Cf. 1 Thess 4:18.
188. OCF 41.
189. Cf. OCF 41.
190. Cf. OCF 57.
191. OCF 10.
192. St. Simeon of Thessalonica, De ordine sepulturae. 336: PG 155, 684. 


PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

1. St. Leo the Great Sermo 22 in nat. Dom., 3: PL 54, 192C.
2. Jn 1:12; 1 Jn 3:1.
3. 2 Pet 1:4.
4. Phil 1:27.
5. Cf. Jn 8:29.
6. Mt 6:6.
7. Mt 5:48.
8. Rom 6:11 and cf. 6:5; cf. Col 2:12.
9. Cf. Jn 15:5.
10. Eph 5:1-2.
11. Phil 2:5.
12. Cf. Jn 13:12-16.
13. 2 Cor 6:11.
14. 1 Cor 1:2.
15. Cf. 1 Cor 6:19.
16. Cf. Gal 4:6.
17. Gal 5:22, 25.
18. Cf. Eph 4:23.
19. Eph 5:8, 9.
20. Mt 7:13; cf. Deut 30: 15-20.
21. Didache 1, 1: SCh 248, 140.
22. Cf. John Paul II, CT 29.
23. Rom 6:4.
24. Jn 14:6.
25. St. John Eudes, Tract. de admirabili corde Jesu, 1, 5.
26. Phil 1:21. 


SECTION ONE: MANšS VOCATION: LIFE IN THE SPIRIT

CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

1. Lk 15:11-32.
2. GS 22.
3. Col 1:15; cf. 2 Cor 4:4.
4. Cf. GS 22.
5. GS 14 # 2.
6. GS 24 # 3.
7. GS 15 # 2.
8. GS 17.
9. GS 16.
10. GS 13 # 1.
11. GS 13 # 2.
12. Mt 5:3-12.
13. St. Augustine, De moribus eccl. 1, 3, 4: PL 32,1312.
14. St. Augustine, Conf. 10, 20: PL 32, 791.
15. St. Thomas Aquinas, Expos. in symb. apost. I.
16. Cf. Mt 4:17.
17. Mt 5:8; cf. 1 Jn 2; 1 Cor 13:12.
18. Mt 25:21-23.
19. Cf. Heb 4:7-11.
20. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 22, 30, 5: PL 41,804.
21. 2. Pet 1:4; cf. Jn 17:3.
22. Cf. Rom 8:18.
23. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4,20,5: PG 7/1, 1034-1035.
24. John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Saintliness the Standard of Christian Principle," in Discourses to Mixed Congregations (London: Longmans, Green and
Co., 1906) V, 89-90.
25. Cf. the parable of the sower: Mt 13:3-23.
26. GS 17; Sir 15:14.
27. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 4, 3: PG 7/1, 983.
28. Cf. Rom 6:17.
29. Gen 3:13.
30. Cf. Gen 4:10.
31. Cf. 2 Sam 12:7-15.
32. Cf. DH 2 # 7.
33. CDF, introduction, Libertatis conscientia 13.
34. Gal 5:1.
35. Cf. In 8:32.
36. 2 Cor 17.
37. Rom 8:21.
38. Roman Missal, 32nd Sunday, Opening Prayer: Omnipotens et misericors Deus, universa nobis adversantia propitiatus exclude, ut, mente et corpore
pariter expediti, quae tua sunt liberis mentibus exsequamur.
39. Cf. Mt 6:24.
40. Cf. Mk 7:21.
41. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 26, 4, corp. art.
42. Cf. St. Augustine, De Trin., 8, 3, 4: PL 42, 949-950.
43. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 14, 7, 2: PL 41, 410.
44. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 24, 1 corp. art.
45. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 24, 3.
46. Ps 84:2.
47. GS 16.
48. Cf. Rom 2:14-16.
49. Cf. Rom 1:32.
50. John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk," V, in Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching II (London: Longmans
Green, 1885), 248.
51. St. Augustine, In ep Jo. 8, 9: PL 35, 2041.
52. 1. Jn 3:19-20.
53. DH 3 # 2.
54. Cf. Ps 119:105.
55. Cf. DH 14.
56. Mt 7:12; cf. Lk 6:31; Tob 4:15.
57. 1 Cor 8:12.
58. Rom 14:21.
59. GS 16.
60. 1 Tim 5; cf. 8:9; 2 Tim 3; 1 Pet 3:21; Acts 24:16.
61. GS 16.
62. Phil 4:8.
63. St. Gregory of Nyssa, De beatitudinibus, 1: PG 44, 1200D.
64. Wis 8:7.
65. Prov 14:15.
66. 1 Pet 4:7.
67. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 47, 2.
68. Lev 19:15.
69. Col 4:1.
70. Ps 118:14.
71. Jn 16:33.
72. Sir 5:2; cf. 37:27-31.
73. Sir 18:30.
74. Titus 2:12.
75. St. Augustine, De moribus eccl. 1, 25, 46: PL 32, 1330-1331.
76. Cf. 2 Pet 1:4.
77. Cf. 1 Cor 13:13.
78. DV 5.
79. Rom 1:17; Gal 5:6.
80. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1545.
81. Jas 2:26.
82. LG 42; cf. DH 14.
83. Mt 10:32-33.
84. Heb 10:23.
85. Titus 3:6-7.
86. Cf. Gen 17:4-8; 22:1-18.
87. Rom 4:18.
88. Rom 5:5.
89. Heb 6:19-20.
90. 1 Thess 5:8.
91. Rom 12:12.
92. Cf. Rom 8:28-30; Mt 7:21.
93. Mt 10:22; cf. Council of Trent DS 1541.
94. 1 Tim 2:4.
95. St. Teresa of Avila, Excl. 15:3.
96. Cf. Jn 13:34.
97. Jn 13:1.
98. Jn 15:9, 12.
99. Jn 15:9-10; cf. Mt 22:40; Rom 13:8-10.
100. Rom 5:10.
101. Cf. Mt 5:44; Lk 10:27-37; Mk 9:37; Mt 25:40, 45.
102. 1 Cor 13:4-7.
103. 1 Cor 13:1-4.
104. 1 Cor 13:13.
105. Col 3:14.
106. Cf. 1 Jn 4:19.
107. St. Basil, Reg. fus. tract., prol. 3 PG 31, 896 B.
108. St. Augustine, In ep. Jo. 10, 4: PL 35, 2057.
109. Cf. Isa 11:1-2.
110. PS 143:10.
111. Rom 8:14, 17.
112. Gal 5:22-23 (Vulg.).
113. Cf. Lk 15.
114. Mt 1:21.
115. Mt 26:28.
116. St. Augustine, Sermo 169, 11, 13: PL 38, 923.
117. 1 Jn 8-9.
118. Rom 5:20.
119. Rom 5:21.
120. John Paul II, DeV 31 # 2.
121. St. Augustine, Contra Faustum 22: PL 42, 418; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 71, 6.
122. Ps 51:4.
123. Gen 3:5.
124. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 14, 28: PL 41, 436.
125. Cf. Phil 2:6-9.
126. Cf. Jn 14:30.
127. Gal 5:19-21; CE Rom 1:28-32; 1 Cor 9-10; EPh 5:3-5; Col 3:5-8; 1 Tim 9-10; 2 Tim 2:5.
128. Mt 15:19-20.
129. Cf. 1 Jn 16-17.
130. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 88, 2, corp. art.
131. RP 17 # 12.
132. Mk 10:19.
133. Cf. Mk 3:5-6; Lk 16:19-31.
134. John Paul II, RP 17 # 9.
135. St. Augustine, In ep. Jo. 1, 6: PL 35, 1982.
136. Mt. 12:31; cf. Mk. 3:29; Lk. 12:10.
137. Cf. John Paul II, DeV 46.
138. Cf. St. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, 31, 45: PL 76, 621A.
139. Cf. Gen 4:10.
140. Cf. Gen 18:20; 19:13.
141. Cf. Ex 3:7-10.
142. Cf. Ex 20:20-22.
143. Cf. Deut 24:14-15; Jas 5:4.
144. John Paul II, RP 16. 


CHAPTER TWO: THE HUMAN COMMUNION

1. Cf. GS 24 # 3.
2. Cf. GS 25 # 1.
3. Cf. Lk 19:13, 15.
4. GS 25 # 1.
5. John XXIII, 60.
6. Cf. GS 25 # 2; CA 12.
7. CA 48 # 4; cf. Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno I, 184-186.
8. CA 36 # 2.
9. John XXIII, PT 36.
10. Cf. CA 41.
11. Pius XII, Address at Pentecost, June 1, 1941.
12. Cf. LG 36.
13. CA 25.
14. Lk 17:33.
15. John XXIII, PT 46.
16. Cf. Leo XIII, Immortale Dei; Diuturnum illud.
17. Rom 13:1-2; cf. 1 Pet 2:13-17.
18. Cf. as early as 1 Tim 2:1-2.
19. St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 61: SCh 167,198-200.
20. GS 74 # 3.
21. GS 74 # 2.
22. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 93, 3, ad 2.
23. John XXIII PT 51.
24. CA44. 25. Ep. Barnabae, 4,10: PG 2, 734.
26. GS 26 # 1; cf. GS 74 # 1.
27. GS 26 # 2.
28. Cf. GS 26 # 2.
29. GS 84 # 2.
30. GS 26 # 3.
31. Cf. CA 43.
32. GS 31 # 3.
33. Cf. GS 30 # 1.
34. GS 31 # 3.
35. John Paul II, SRS 47.
36. Cf. John XXIII, PT 65.
37. GS 27 # 1.
38. Mt 25:40.
39. Cf. Mt 5:43-44.
40. GS 29 # 2.
41. Cf. GS 29 # 2.
42. Cf. Mt 25:14-30; Lk 19:27.
43. St. Catherine of Siena, Dial. I, 7.
44. CS 29 # 3.
45. Cf. John Paul II, SRS 38 40; CA 10.
46. Pius XII, Summi pontificatus, October 20, 1939; AAS 31 (1939) 423. ff.
47. Mt 6:33.
48. Pius XII, Discourse, June 1, 1941. 


CHAPTER THREE: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE

1. Phil 2:12-13.
2. Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum: AAS 20 (1887/88), 597; cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 90, 1.
3. Cf. Tertullian, Adv. Marc, 2, 4: PL 2, 288-289.
4. Rom 10:4.
5. Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum, 597.
6. GS 89 # 1.
7. St. Augustine, De Trin. 14, 15, 21: PL 42,1052.
8. St. Thomas Aquinas, Dec. praec. I.
9. Cicero, Rep. III, 22, 33.
10. Cf. GS 10.
11. St. Augustine, Conf. 2, 4, 9: PL 32, 678.
12. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3876; cf. Dei Filius 2: DS 3005.
13. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 57, 1: PL 36, 673.
14. Cf. Rom 7:12, 14, 16.
15. Cf. Gal 3:24.
16. Cf. Rom 7.
17. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 15, 1: PG 7/1, 1012.
18. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 107, 1 ad 2; cf. Rom 5:5.
19. Heb 8:8, 10; cf. Jer 31:31-34.
20. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. 1, 1: PL 34,1229-1230.
21. Cf. Mt 5:17-19.
22. Cf. Mt 15:18-19.
23. Cf. Mt 5:44,48.
24. Cf. Mt 6:1-6; 16-18.
25. Cf. Mt 6:9-13; Lk 11:2-4.
26. Cf. Mt 7:13-14,21-27.
27. Mt 7:12; cf. Lk 6:31.
28. Cf. Jn 15:12; 13:34.
29. Rom 12:9-13.
30. Cf. Rom 14; 1 Cor 5-10.
31. Jn 15:15; cf. Jas 1:25; 2:12; Gal 4:1-7.21-31; Rom 8:15.
32. Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 184, 3.
33. St. Francis de Sales, Love of God 8, 6.
34. Rom 3:22; cf. 6:3-4.
35. Rom 6:8-11.
36. Cf. 1 Cor 12; Jn 15:1 4.
37. St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24: PG 26, 585 and 588.
38. Mt 4:17.
39. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1528.
40. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1529.
41. Rom 3:21-26.
42. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1525.
43. St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 72, 3: PL 35, 1823.
44. Cf. Rom 7:22; Eph 3:16.
45. Rom 6:19, 22.
46. Cf. Jn 1:12-18; 17:3; Rom 8:14-17; 2 Pet 1:3-4.
47. Cf. 1 Cor 2:7-9.
48. Cf. Jn 4:14; 7:38-39.
49. 2. Cor 5:17-18.
50. St. Augustine, De gratia et libero arbitrio, 17: PL 44, 901.
51. St. Augustine, De natura et gratia, 31: PL 44, 264.
52. St. Augustine, Conf. 13, 36, 51: PL 32, 868; cf. Gen 1:31.
53. Cf. LG 12.
54. Cf. 1 Cor 12.
55. Rom 12:6-8.
56. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1533-1534.
57. Mt 7:20.
58. Acts of the trial of St. Joan of Arc.
59. Roman Missal, Prefatio I de sanctis; Qui in Sanctorum concilio celebraris, et eorum coronando merita tua dona coronas, citing the "Doctor of grace," St.
Augustine, En. in Ps. 102, 7: PL 37, 1321-1322.
60. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1546.
61. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1548.
62. St. Augustine, Sermo 298, 4-5: PL 38, 1367.
63. St. Therese of Lisieux, "Act of Offering" in Story of a Soul, tr. John Clarke (Washington Dc: ICS, 1981), 277.
64. Rom 8:28-30.
65. LG 40 # 2.
66. Mt 5:48.
67. LG 40 # 2.
68. Cf. 2 Tim 4.
69. St. Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. in Cant. 8: PG 44, 941C.
70. Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1576.
71. Rev 21:2.
72. Gal 6:12 73. Rom 12:1.
74. 1 Tim 3:15; LG 17.
75. CIC, can. 747 # 2.
76. LG 25.
77. Cf. LG 25; CDF, declaration, Mysterium Ecclesiae 3.
78. Cf. DH 14.
79. Cf. CIC, can. 213.
80. Cf. 1 Cor 2:10-15.
81. Cf. Rom 12:8, 11.
82. Cf. CIC, cann. 1246-1248; CCEO, cann. 880.3, 881.1,.2,.4.
83. Cf. CIC, can. 989; CCEO, can. 719.
84. Cf. CIC, can. 920; CCEO, cann. 708; 881 # 3.
85. [cancelled]
86. Cf. CIC, cann. 1249-1251: CCEO can. 882.
87. Cf. CIC, can. 222; CCEO can. 25; Furthermore, episcopal conferences can establish other ecclesiastical precepts for their own territories (Cf. CIC,
can. 455).
88. AA 6 # 2.
89. Cf. Eph 1:22.
90. Eph 4:13; cf. LG 39.
91. Roman Missal, Preface of Christ the King. 


SECTION TWO: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. Mt 19:16-19.
2. Mt 19:21.
3. Cf. Mt 5:17.
4. Cf. Mt 19:6-12, 21, 23-29.
5. Mt 5:20.
6. Cf. Mt 5:46-47.
7. Mt 5:21-22.
8. Mt 22:36.
9. Mt 22:37-40; cf. Deut 6:5; Lev 19:18.
10. Rom 13:9-10.
11. Ex 34:28; Deut 4:13; 10:4.
12. Ex 31:18; Deut 5:22.
13. Cf. Deut 31:9. 24.
14. Cf. Ex 20:1-17.
15. Cf. Deut 5:6-22.
16. Cf. for example Hos 4:2; Jer 7:9; Ezek 18:5-9.
17. Deut 30:16.
18. Deut 5:15.
19. Deut 5:22.
20. Ex 25:16; 31:18; 32:15; 34:29; 40:1-2.
21. Deut 5:4.
22. Cf. Ex 19.
23. Cf. Ex 24:7.
24. Deut 5:2.
25. Origen, Hom. in Ex. 8,1: PG 12, 350; cf. Ex 20:2; Deut 5:6.
26. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres., 4, 16, 3-4: PG 7/1, 1017-1018.
27. St. Augustine, Sermo 33, 2, 2: PL 38, 208.
28. Cf. DS 1569-1570.
29. LG 24.
30. Cf. Jas 2:10-11.
31. St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 4, 15, 1: PG 7/l, 1012.
32. St. Bonaventure, Comm. sent. 4, 37, 1, 3.
33. Jn 15:5.
34. Jn 15:12. 


CHAPTER ONE: YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND

1. Mt 22:37; cf. Lk 10:27:"... and with all your strength."
2. Deut 6:4.
3. Ex 20:2-5; cf. Deut 5:6-9.
4. Mt 4:10.
5. Deut 6:13-14.
6. Cf. Ex 19:16-25; 24:15-18.
7. St. Justin, Dial. cum Tryphone Judaeo 11, 1: PG 6, 497.
8. Roman Catechism 3, 2,4.
9. Rom 1:5; 16:26.
10. Cf. Rom 1:18-32.
11. CIC, can. 751: emphasis added.
12. Cf. Deut 6:4-5.
13. Lk 4:8; Cf. Deut 6:13.
14. Cf. Lk 1:46-49.
15. Lk 18:1.
16. St. Augustine, De civ Dei 10, 6 PL 41, 283.
17. PS 51:17.
18. Cf. Am 5:21-25; Isa 1:10-20.
19. Mt 9:13; 12:7; Cf. Hos 6:6.
20. Cf. Heb 9:13-14.
21. CIC, can. 1191 # 1.
22. Cf. Acts 18:18; 21:23-24.
23. Cf. CIC, can. 654.
24. LG 42 # 2.
25. Cf. CIC, cann. 692; 1196-1197.
26. DH 1 # 2.
27. DH 2 # 1.
28. NA 2 # 2.
29. DH 14 # 4.
30. DH 1 # 3.
31. AA 13 # 1.
32. Cf. DH 1.
33. Cf. AA 13; Leo XIII, Immortale Dei 3, 17; Pius XI, Quas primas 8, 20.
34. DH 2 # 1.
35. DH 2 # 2.
36. DH 6 # 3.
37. Cf. Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum 18; Pius XII AAS 1953, 799.
38. Cf. DH 2.
39. Cf. Pius VI, Quod aliquantum (1791) 10; Pius IX, Quanta cura 3.
40. DH 7 # 3.
41. Cf. Mt 23:16-22.
42. Ps 115:4-5, 8; cf. Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:1-16; Dan 14:1-30; Bar 6; Wis 13: 1-15:19.
43. Josh 3:10; Ps 42:3; etc.
44. Mt 6:24.
45. Cf. Rev 13-14.
46. Cf. Gal 5:20; Eph 5:5.
47. Origen, Contra Celsum 2, 40: PG 11, 861.
48. Cf. Deut 18:10; Jer 29:8.
49. Cf. Lk 4:9. 50 Deut 6:16.
51. Cf. 1. Cor 10:9; Ex 17:2-7; Ps 95:9.
52. Cf. CIC, cann. 1367; 1376.
53. Cf. Acts 8:9-24.
54. Acts 8:20.
55. Mt 10:8; cf. already Isa 55:1.
56. CIC, can. 848.
57. Mt 10:10; cf. Lk 10:7; 2 Cor 9:5-18; 1 Tim 5:17-18.
58. GS 19 # 1.
59. GS 20 # 2.
60. GS 20 # 2.
61. Cf. Rom 1:18.
62. GS 19 # 3.
63. Cf. GS 20 # 1.
64. GS 21 # 3.
65. GS 21 # 7.
66. Deut 4:15-16.
67. Sir 43:27-28.
68. Wis 13:3.
69. Cf. Num 21:4-9; Wis 16:5-14; Jn 3:14-15; Ex 25:10-22; 1 Kings 6:23-28; 7:23-26.
70. St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto 18, 45: PG 32, 149C; Council of Nicaea II: DS 601; cf. Council of Trent: DS 1821-1825; Vatican Council II: SC 126; LG
67.
71. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 81, 3 ad 3.
72. Ex 20:7; Deut 5:11.
73. Mt 5:33-34.
74. Cf. Zech 2:13; Ps 29:2; 96:2; 113:1-2.
75. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons V, 2. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907) 21-22.
76. Cf. Mt 10:32; 1 Tim 6:12.
77. Cf. 1 Jn 1:10.
78. Jas 2:7.
79. Cf. CIC, can. 1369.
80. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2, 5, 19: PL 34, 1278.
81. Deut 6:13.
82. Mt 5:33-34,37; Cf. Jas 5:12.
83. Cf. 2 Cor 1:23; Gal 1:20.
84. CIC, can. 1199 # 1.
85. Mt 28:19.
86. CIC, Can. 855.
87. Cf. Isa 43:1; Jn 10:3.
88. Rev 2:17.
89. Rev 14:1.
90. Ex 20:8-10; cf. Deut 5:12-15.
91. Mk 2:27-28.
92. Ex 31:15.
93. Ex 20:11.
94. Deut 5:15.
95. Cf. Ex 31:16.
96. Ex 31:17; cf. 23:12.
97. Cf. Neh 13:15-22; 2 Chr 36:21.
98. Cf. Mk 1:21; Jn 9:16.
99. Mk 2:27.
100. Cf. Mk 3:4.
101. Cf. Mt 12:5; Jn 7:23.
102. Mk 2:28.
103. Ps 118:24.
104. Cf. Mt 28:1; Mk 16:2; Lk 24:1; Jn 20:1.
105. Cf. Mk 16:1; Mt 28:1.
106. St. Justin, I Apol. 67: PG 6, 429 and 432.
107. Cf. 1 Cor 10:11.
108. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Magn. 9, 1: SCh 10, 88.
109. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II 122, 4.
110. CIC, can. 1246 # 1.
111. CIC, can. 1246 # 2: "The conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the
Apostolic See."
112. Cf. Acts 2:42-46; 1 Cor 11:17.
113. Heb 10:25.
114. Sermo de die dominica 2 et 6: PG 86/1, 416C and 421C.
115. CIC, can. 515 # 1.
116. St. John Chrysostom, De incomprehensibili 3, 6: PG 48, 725.
117. CIC, can. 1247.
118. CIC, can. 1248 # 1.
119. Cf. CIC, can. 1245.
120. CIC, can. 1248 # 2.
121. Gen 2:2.
122. Cf. GS 67 # 3.
123. Cf. CIC, can. 120.
124. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei 19, 19: PL 41, 647.
125. Heb 12:22-23. 


CHAPTER TWO: YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

1. Jn 13:34.
2. Mk 12:29-31; cf. Deut 6:4-5; Lev 19:18; Mt 22:34-40; Lk 10:25-28.
3. Rom 13:8-10.
4. Ex 20:12; Deut 5:16.
5. Lk 2:51.
6. Mk 7:8-13.
7. Eph 6:1-3; cf. Deut 5:16.
8. Ex 20:12; Deut 5:16.
9. FC 21; cf. LG 11.
10. Cf. Eph 5:21b: 4; Col 3:18-21; 1 Pet 3:1-7.
11. GS 52 # 1.
12. Jas 1:27.
13. Cf. GS 47 # 1.
14. GS 52 # 2.
15. Cf. FC 46.
16. Cf. Eph 314.
17. Cf. Prov 1:8; Tob 4:3-4.
18. Cf. Ex 20:12.
19. Sir 7:27-28.
20. Prov 6:20-22.
21. Prov 13:1.
22. Col 3:20; Cf. Eph 6:1.
23. Cf. Mk 7:10-12.
24. Sir 3:2-6.
25. Sir 3:12-13, 16.
26. Prov 17:6.
27. Eph 4:2.
28. 2 Tim 1:5.
29. GE 3.
30. Cf. FC 36.
31. CA 36 # 2.
32. Sir 30:1-2.
33. Eph 6:4.
34. LG 11 # 2.
35. Cf. LG 11.
36. Cf. GS 48 # 4.
37. Cf. Mt 18:21-22; Lk 17:4.
38. Cf. GE 6.
39. Mt 10:37; cf. 16:25.
40. Mt 12:49.
41. Mt 20:26.
42. Cf. CA 25.
43. Cf. Rom 13:1-2.
44. 1. Pet 2:13, 16.
45. Rom 13:7.
46. Ad Diognetum 5, 5 and 10; 6, 10: PG 2, 1173 and 1176.
47. 1 Tim 2:2.
48. Mt 22:21.
49. Acts 5:29.
50. GS 74 # 5.
51. Cf. CA 45; 46.
52. GS 76 # 3.
53. GS 76 # 5.
54. Ex 20:13; Cf. Deut 5:17.
55. Mt 5:21-22.
56. CDF, introduction, Donum vitae, intro. 5.
57. Cf. Gen 4:8-12.
58. Gen 4:10-11.
59. Gen 9:5-6.
60. Cf. Lev 17:14.
61. Ex 23:7.
62. Mt 5:21.
63. Cf. Mt 5:22-39; 5:44.
64. Cf. Mt 26:52.
65. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 64, 7, corp. art.
66. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 64, 7, corp. art.
67. Cf. Lk 23:40-43.
67a. John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56.
68. Cf. Gen 4:10.
69. Cf. GS 51 # 3.
70. Cf. Am 8:4-10.
71. Cf. CDF, Donum vitae I, 1.
72. Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11.
73. Ps 139:15.
74. Didache 2, 2: SCh 248, 148; cf. Ep. Barnabae 19, 5: PG 2, 777; Ad Diognetum 5, 6: PG 2, 1173; Tertullian, Apol. 9: PL 1, 319-320.
75. GS 51 # 3.
76. CIC, can. 1398.
77. CIC, can. 1314.
78. Cf. CIC, cann. 1323-1324.
79. CDF, Donum vitae III.
80. CDF, Donum vitae III.
81. CDF, Donum vitae I, 2.
82. CDF, Donum vitae I, 3.
83. CDF, Donum vitae I, 5.
84. CDF, Donum vitae I, 6.
85. Mt 18:6; Cf. 1 Cor 8:10-13.
86. Cf. Mt 7:15.
87. Pius XII, Discourse, June 1, 1941.
88. Cf. Eph 6:4; Col. 3:21.
89. Lk 17:1.
90. Cf. DS 3722.
91. Cf. Tob 1:16-18.
92. Cf. CIC, can. 1176 # 3.
93. Mt 5:21.
94. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 158, 1 ad 3.
95. Mt 5:22.
96. Mt 5:44-45.
97. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 19, 13, 1: PL 41, 640.
98. Cf. Isa 32:17; cf. GS 78 ## 1-2.
99. Isa 9:5.
100. Eph 2:16 J.B.; cf. Col 1:20-22.
101. Eph 2:14.
102. Mt 5:9.
103. Cf. GS 78 # 5.
104. Cf. GS 81 # 4.
105. GS 79 # 4.
106. Cf. GS 79 # 5.
107. Cf. GS 79 # 3.
108. GS 79 # 4.
109. GS 80 #3.
110. Cf. Paul VI, PP 53.
111. GS 78 # 6; cf. Isa 2:4.
112. EX 20:14; Deut 5:18.
113. Mt 5:27-28.
114. FC 11.
115. Gen 1:27.
116. Gen 1:28.
117. Gen 5:1-2.
118. FC 22; Cf. GS 49 # 2.
119. MD 6.
120. Gen 2:24.
121. Cf. Gen 4:1-2, 25-26; 5:1.
122. Mt 5:27-28.
123. Cf. Mt 19:6.
124. Cf. Mt 5:37.
125. Cf. Sir 1:22.
126. GS 17.
127. St. Augustine, Conf. 10, 29, 40: PL 32, 796.
128. Cf. Titus 2:1-6.
129. FC 34.
130. GS 25 # 1.
131. Cf. Gal 5:22.
132. Cf. 1 Jn 3:3.
133. Cf. Jn 15:15.
134. Gal 3:27.
135. CDF, Persona humana 11.
136. St. Ambrose, De viduis 4, 23: PL 16, 255A.
137. CDF, Persona humana 9.
138. CDF, Persona humana 9.
139. Cf. 1 Cor 6:15-20.
140. Cf. Gen 191-29; Rom 124-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10.
141. CDF, Persona humana 8.
142. FC 11.
143. Tob 8:4-9.
144. GS 49 # 2.
145. Pius XII, Discourse, October 29,1951.
146. GS 48 # 1.
147. Cf. CIC, can. 1056.
148. Mk 109; cf. Mt 19:1-12; 1 Cor 7: 10-11.
149. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Eph. 20, 8: PG 62, 146-147.
150. FC 30.
151. HV 11.
152. HV 12; cf. Pius XI, encyclical, Casti connubii.
153. Cf. Eph 3:14; Mt 23:9.
154. GS 50 # 2.
155. GS 51 # 3.
156. Cf. HV 12.
157. HV 16.
158. HV 14.
159. FC 32.
160. GS 51 # 4.
161. Cf. HV 23; PP 37.
162. Cf. GS 50 # 2.
163. Gen 15:2.
164. Gen 30:1.
165. CDF, Donum vitae intro., 2.
166. CDF, Donum vitae II, 1.
167. CDF, Donum vitae II, 5.
168. CDF, Donum vitae II, 4.
169. CDF, Donum vitae II, 8.
170. Cf. Mt 5:27-28.
171. Cf. Mt 5:32; 19:6; Mk 10:11; 1 Cor 6:9-10.
172. Cf. Hos 2:7; Jer 5:7; 13:27.
173. Cf. Mt 5:31-32; 19:3-9; Mk 10 9; Lk 16:18; 1 Cor 7:10-ll.
174. Cf. Mt 19:7-9.
175. CIC, can. 1141.
176. Cf. CIC, cann. 1151-1155.
177. St. Basil, Moralia 73, 1: PG 31, 849-852.
178. Cf. FC 84.
179. FC 19; cf. GS 47 # 2.
180. Cf. Lev 18:7-20.
181. 1 Cor 5:1, 4-5.
182. Cf. FC 81.
183. CDF, Persona humana 7.
184. Cf. FC 80.
185. EX 20:15; Deut 5:19; Mt 19:18.
186. Cf. Gen 1:26-29.
187. GS 69 # 1.
188. Cf. GS 71 # 4; SRS 42; CA 40; 48.
189. 2 Cor 8:9.
190. Cf. GS 69 # 1.
191. Cf. Deut 25:13-16; 24:14-15; Jas 5:4; Am 8:4-6.
192. Lk 19:8.
193. Philem 16.
194. Cf. Gen 128-31.
195. Cf. CA 37-38.
196. Cf. Mt 6:26; Dan 3:79-81.
197. Cf. Gen 2:19-20; 9:1-4.
198. GS 23 # 1.
199. GS 76 # 5.
200. Cf. CA 3.
201. Cf. SRS 1; 41.
202. Cf. CA 24.
203. Cf. GS 63 # 3; LE 7; 20; CA 35.
204. GS 65 # 2.
205. Mt 6:24; Lk 16:13.
206. Cf. CA 10; 13; 44.
207. CA 34.
208. Cf. GS 64.
209. Cf. Gen 1:28; GS 34; CA 31.
210. 2 Thess 3:10; Cf. 1 Thess 4:11.
211. Cf. Gen 3:14-19.
212. Cf. LE 27.
213. Cf. LE 6.
214. Cf. CA 32; 34.
215. Cf. LE 11.
216. CA 48.
217. Cf. CA 37.
218. Cf. LE 19; 22-23.
219. Cf. CA 48.
220. Cf. Lev 19:13; Deut 24:14-15; Jas 5:4
221. GS 67 # 2.
222. Cf. LE 18.
223. Cf. SRS 14.
224. SRS 9.
225. Cf. SRS 17; 45.
226. CA 28; Cf. 35.
227. Cf. SRS 16.
228. Cf. CA 26.
229. Cf. SRS 32; CA 51.
230. SRS 47 # 6; cf. 42.
231. Mt 5:42; 10:8.
232. Cf. Mt 25:31-36.
233. Mt 11:5; cf. Lk 4:18.
234. CA 57; cf. Lk 6:20-22, Mt 8:20; Mk 12:41-44.
235. Eph 4:28.
236. Cf. CA 57.
237. Jas 5:1-6.
238. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Lazaro 2, 5: PG 48, 992.
239. AA 8 # 5.
240. St. Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis. 3, 21: PL 77, 87.
241. Cf. Isa 58:6-7; Heb 13:3.
242. Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
243. Cf. Tob 4:5-11; Sir 17:22; Mt 6:2-4.
244. Lk 3:11.
245. Lk 11:41.
246. Jas 2:15-16; cf. 1 Jn 3:17.
247. CDF, introduction, Libertatis conscientia, 68.
248. Deut 15:11.
249. Jn 12:8.
250. Am 8:6; cf. Mt 25:40.
251. P. Hansen, Vita mirabilis (Louvain, 1668).
252. EX 20:16; Cf. Deut 5:20.
253. Mt 5:33.
254. PS 119:90; Cf. Prov 8:7; 2 Sam 7:28; PS 119:142; Lk 1:50.
255. Rom 3:4; Cf. PS 119:30.
256. Jn 1:14; 8:12; Cf. 14:6.
257. Jn 12:46.
258. Jn 8:32; Cf. 17:17.
259. Jn 16:13.
260. Mt 5:37.
261. DH 2 # 2.
262. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II 109, 3 ad 1.
263. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 109, 3, corp. art.
264. 1 Jn 1:6.
265. Jn 18:37.
266. 2 Tim 1:8.
267. Acts 24:16.
268. Cf. Mt 18:16.
269. AG 11.
270. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom. 4, 1 SCh 10, 110.
271. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Rom. 6, 1-2 SCh 10, 114.
272. Martyrium Polycarpi 14,2-3 PG 5,1040; SCh 10,228.
273. Eph 4:24.
274. Eph 4:25; 1 Pet 2:1.
275. Cf. Prov 19:9.
276. Cf. Prov 18:5.
277. Cf. CIC, can. 220.
278. Cf. Sir 21:28.
279. St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 22.
280. St. Augustine, De mendacio 4, 5: PL 40: 491.
281. Jn 8:44.
282. Cf. Sir 27:16; Prov 25:9-10.
283. CIC, Can. 983 # 1.
284. Cf. IM 11.
285. IM 5 # 2.
286. IM 8.
287. IM 12.
288. IM 12 # 2.
289. Wis 13:3, 5.
290. Wis 7:25-26.
291. Wis 7:29-30.
292. Wis 8:2.
293. Gen 1:26.
294. Cf. Wis 7:16-17
295. Cf. Pius XII, Musicae sacrae disciplina; Discourses of September 3. and December 25, 1950.
296. Heb 1:3; Col 2:9.
297. Cf. SC 122-127.
298. Ex 20:17.
299. Mt 5:28.
300. Cf. 1 Jn 2:16.
301. Cf. Gal 5:16, 17, 24; Eph 2:3.
302. Cf. Gen 3:11; Council of Trent: DS 1515.
303. John Paul II, DeV 55; cf. Gal 5:25.
304. Mt 15:19.
305. Pastor Hermae, Mandate 2, 1: PG 2, 916.
306. Mt 5:8.
307. Cf. 1 Tim 4:3-9; 2 Tim 2:22.
308. Cf. 1 Thess 4:7; Col 3:5; Eph 4:19.
309. Cf. Titus 1:15; 1 Tim 1:3-4; 2 Tim 2:23-26.
310. St. Augustine, Defide et symbolo 10, 25: PL 40, 196.
311. Cf. 1 Cor 13:12; 1 Jn 3:2.
312. Cf. Rom 12:2; Col 1:10.
313. Wis 15:5.
314. St. Augustine, Conf. 6, 11, 20: PL 32, 729-730.
315. GS 58 # 4.
316. EX 20:17; Deut 5:21.
317. Mt 6:21.
318. Cf. 1 Jn 2:16; Mic 2:2.
319. Cf. Wis 14:12.
320. Roman Catechism, III, 37; cf. Sir 5:8.
321. Roman Catechism, III, 37.
322. Cf. 2 Sam 12:14.
323. Cf. Gen 4:3-7; 1 Kings 21:1-29.
324. Wis 2:24.
325. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in 2 Cor. 27, 3-4 PG 61, 588.
326. Cf. St. Augustine, De catechizandis rudibus 4, 8 PL 40, 315-316.
327. St. Gregory the Great Moralia in Job 31, 45: PL 76, 621.
328. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Rom. 71, 5: PG 60, 448.
329. Gen 3:6.
330. Cf. Rom 7:7.
331. Rom 7:23; cf. 7:10.
332. Rom 3:21-22.
333. Gal 5:24; cf. Rom 8:14, 27.
334. Lk 14:33; cf. Mk 8:35.
335. Cf. Lk 21:4.
336. LG 42 # 3.
337. Mt 5:3.
338. Cf. Lk 6:20.
339. St. Gregory of Nyssa, De beatitudinibus 1: PG 44, 1200D; cf. 2 Cor 8:9.
340. Lk 6:24.
341. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 1, 1, 3: PL 34, 1232.
342. Cf. Mt 6:25-34.
343. St. Gregory of Nyssa, De beatitudinibus 6: PG 44, 1265A.
344. Cf. Rev 22:17.
345. St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 22, 30: PL 41, 801-802; cf. Lev 26:12; cf. 1 Cor 15:28. 


PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER

SECTION ONE: PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

WHAT IS PRAYER? 

1. St. Therese of Lisieux, Manuscrits autobiographiques, C 25r.
2. St. John Damascene, Defide orth. 3, 24: PG 94,1089C.
3. Ps 130:1.
4. Cf. Lk 18:9-14.
5. Rom 8:26.
6. St. Augustine, Sermo 56, 6, 9: PL 38, 381.
7. Jn 4:10.
8. Cf. St. Augustine De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus 64, 4: PL 40, 56.
9. Jn 4:10.
10. Jer 2:13.
11. Cf. Jn 7:37-39; 19:28; Isa 12:3; 51:1; Zech 12:10; 13:1.
12. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio, 16, 9: PG 35, 945.
13. Cf. Rom 6:5.
14. Cf. Eph 3:18-21. 


CHAPTER ONE: THE REVELATION OF PRAYER

1. Ps 8:5; 8:1.
2. Cf. Acts 17:27.
3. Gen 3:9, 13.
4. Heb 10:5-7.
5. Cf. Gen 4:4, 26; Gen 5:24.
6. Gen 6:9; 8:20-9:17.
7. Gen 9:8-16.
8. Gen 12:4.
9. Cf. Gen 15:2 f.
10. Cf. Gen 15:6; 17:1 f.
11. Cf. Gen 18:1-15; Lk 1:26-38.
12. Cf. Gen 18:16-33.
13. Heb 11:17.
14. Gen 22:8; Heb 11:19
15. Rom 8:32.
16. Cf. Rom 8:16-21.
17. Cf. Gen 28:10-22.
18. Cf. Gen 32:24-30; Lk 18:1-8.
19. 1 Tim 2:5.
20. Ex 3:1-10.
21. Ex 33:11.
22. Num 12:3,7-8.
23. Cf. Ex 34:6.
24. Cf. Ex 17:8-12; Num 12:13-14.
25. Ps 106:23; cf. Ex 32:1-34:9.
26. 1 Sam 3:9-10; cf. 1:9-18.
27. 1 Sam 12:23.
28. Cf. 2 Sam 7:18-29.
29. 1 Kings 8:10-61.
30. Ps 24:6.
31. 1 Kings 18:39.
32. Jas 5:16b-18.
33. Cf. 1 Kings 17:7-24.
34. Cf. 1 Kings 19:1-14; cf. Ex 33:19-23.
35. 2 Cor 4:6; cf. Lk 9:30-35.
36. Cf. Am 7:2, 5; Isa 6:5, 8, 11; Jer 1:6; 15: 15-18; 20: 7-18.
37. Ezra 9:6-15; Neh 1:4-11; Jon 2:3-10; Tob 3:11-16; Jdt 9:2-14.
38. Cf. GILH, nn. 100-109.
39. DV 2.
40. St. Ambrose, In psalmum 1 enarratio, 1, 9: PL 14, 924; LH, Saturday, wk 10, OR.
41. Cf. Lk 1:49; 2:19; 2:51.
42. Lk 2:49.
43. Cf. Lk 3:21; 9:28; 22:41-44.
44. Cf. Lk 6:12; 9:18-20; 22:32.
45. Lk 11:1.
46. Cf. Mk 1:35; 6:46; Lk 5:16.
47. Cf. Heb 2:12, 15; 4:15.
48. Cf. Mt 11:25-27 and Lk 10:21-23.
49. Cf. Eph 1:9.
50. Cf. Jn 11:41-42.
51. Mt 6:21, 33.
52. Cf. Jn 17.
53. Lk 22:42.
54. Lk 23:34.
55. Lk 23:43.
56. Jn 19:26-27.
57. Jn 19:28.
58. Mk 15:34; cf. Ps 22:2.
59. Jn 19:30.
60. Lk 23:46.
61. Cf. Mk 15:37; Jn 19:30b.
62. Ps 2:7-8; cf. Acts 13:33.
63. Heb 5:7-9.
64. Cf. Mt 5:23-24, 44-45; 6:7,14-15, 21, 25, 33.
65. Cf. Mt 7:7-11,13-14.
66. Mk 11:24.
67. Mk 9:23; cf. Mt 21:22.
68. Cf. Mk 6:6; Mt 8:26.
69. Cf. Mt 8:10; 15:28.
70. Cf. Mt 7:21.
71. Cf. Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2; Jn 4:34.
72. Mk 1:15.
73. Cf. Mk 13; Lk 21:34-36.
74. Cf. Lk 22:40, 46.
75. Cf. Lk 11:5-13.
76. Cf. Lk 18:1-8.
77. Cf. Lk 18:9-14.
78. Jn 14:13.
79. Jn 14:6.
80. Cf. Jn 14:13-14.
81. Jn 14:16-17.
82. Cf. Jn 14:23-26; 15:7, 16; 16:13-15; 16:23-27.
83. Jn 16:24.
84. Cf. Mk 1:40-41; 5:36; 7:29; Cf. Lk 23:39-43.
85. Cf. Mk 25; 5:28; Lk 7:37-38.
86. Mt 9:27, Mk 10:48.
87. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 85, 1: PL 37, 1081; cf. GILH 7.
88. Cf. Lk 1:38; Acts 1:14.
89. Cf. Jn 2:1-12.
90. Cf. Jn 19:25-27.
91. Cf. Lk 1:46-55.
92. Acts 2:1.
93. Acts 1:14.
94. Cf. Jn 14:26.
95. Acts 2:42.
96. Cf. Lk 24:27, 44.
97. Cf. Eph 1:3-14; 2 Cor 1:3 7; 1 Pet 1:3-9.
98. Cf. 2 Cor 13:14; Rom 15:5-6,13; Eph 6:23-24.
99. Cf. Ps 95:1-6.
100. Ps 24, 9-10.
101. Cf. St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 62,16: PL 36, 757-758.
102. Cf. Rom 15:30; Col 4:12.
103. Rom 8:22-24.
104. Rom 8:26.
105. Lk 18:13.
106. 1 Jn 3:22; cf. 1:7-2:2.
107. Cf. Mt 6:10, 33; Lk 11:2,13.
108. Cf. Acts 6:6; 13:3.
109. Cf. Rom 10:1; Eph 1:16-23; Phil 1911; Col 1:3-6; 4:3-4, 12.
110. Cf. Jn 14:13.
111. Cf. Jas 1:5-8; Eph 5:20; Phil 4:6-7; Col 3:16-17; 1 Thess 5:17-18.
112. Cf. Rom 8:34; 1 Jn 2:1; 1 Tim 2:5-8.
113. Heb 7:25.
114. Rom 8:26-27.
115. Phil 2:4; cf. Acts 7:60; Lk 23:28, 34.
116. Cf. Acts 12:5; 20:36; 21:5; 2 Cor 9:14.
117. Cf. Eph 6:18-20; Col 4:3-4; 1 Thess 5:25.
118. Cf. 2 Thess 1:11; Col 1:3; Phil 1:3-4.
119. 2 Tim 2:1; cf. Rom 12:14; 10:1.
120. 1 Thess 5:18; Col 4:2.
121. Cf. Rom 8:16.
122. 1 Cor 8:6.
123. Acts 2:47; 3:9; 4:21; 13:48.
124. Eph 5:19; Col 3:16.
125. Cf. Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:15-20; Eph 5:14; 1 Tim 3:16; 6:15-16; 2 Tim 2:11-13.
126. Cf. Eph 1:3-14; Rom 16:25-27; Eph 3:20-21; Jude 24-25.
127. Cf. Rev 4:8-11; 5:9-14; 7:10-12.
128. Rev 6:10.
129. Cf. Rev 18:24; 19:1-8.
130. Jas 1:17.
131. Cf. Mal 1:11. 


CHAPTER TWO: THE TRADITION OF PRAYER

1. DV 8.
2. Cf. DV 8.
3. Jn 4:14
4. DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8; St. Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum 1, 20,88: PL 16, 50.
5. Guigo the Carthusian, Scala Paradisi: PL 40, 998.
6. Cf. Mt 6:6.
7. GILH 9.
8. Ps 40:2.
9. Rom 15:13.
10. Rom 5:5.
11. St. John Vianney, Prayer.
12. Cf. Mt 6:11, 34.
13. Ps 95:7-8.
14. Cf. Lk 13:20-21.
15. Cf. DV 10.
16. Cf. Ex 3:14; 33: 19-23; Mt 1:21.
17. Rom 10:13; Acts 2:21; 3:15-16; Gal 2:20.
18. Cf. Mk 10:46-52; Lk 18:13.
19. Cf. Mt 6:7.
20. Cf. Lk 8:15.
21. 1 Cor 12:3.
22. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oratio, 31, 28: PG 36, 165.
23. Cf. Lk 11:13.
24. Cf. Jn 14:17; 15:26; 16:13.
25. Roman Missal, Pentecost Sequence.
26. Byzantine Liturgy, Pentecost Vespers, Troparion.
27. Cf. Acts 1:14.
28. LG 62.
29. Cf. Lk 1:46-55.
30. Cf. Lk 1:48; Zeph 3:17b.
31. Zeph 3:14,17a.
32. Rev 21:3.
33. Lk 1:41, 48.
34. Lk 1:45.
35. Cf. Gen 12:3.
36. Lk 1:43.
37. Lk 1:38.
38. Cf. Jn 19:27.
39. Cf. Jn 19:27.
40. Cf. LG 68-69.
41. Cf. Heb 12:1.
42. Cf. Mt 25:21.
43. Cf. 2 Kings 2:9; Lk 1:1; PC 2.
44. St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, 26, 62: PG 32, 184.
45. Cf. PO 4-6.
46. Cf. CT 54.
47. St. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love, stanza 3, 30, in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, eds K. Kavanaugh OCD and O.
Rodriguez OCD (Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979), 621.
48. Cf. Mt 6:6.
49. Cf. PC 7. 


CHAPTER THREE: THE LIFE OF PRAYER

1. St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Orat. theo., 27, 1, 4: PG 36, 16.
2. St. John Chrysostom, Ecloga de oratione 2: PG 63, 585.
3. Cf. Mt 11:25-26; Mk 14:36.
4. St. Teresa of Jesus, The Way of Perfection 26, 9 in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez, OCD
(Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1980), II, 136.
5. Cf. Mk 4:4-7, 15-19.
6. St. Teresa of Jesus, The Book of Her Life, 8, 5 in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez, OCD
(Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1976), I, 67.
7. Song 1:7; cf. 3:14.
8. Cf. Lk 7:36-50; 19:1-10.
9. Cf. Jer 31:33.
10. Eph 3:16-17.
11. Cf. St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 104.
12. Cf. St. Isaac of Nineveh, Tract. myst. 66.
13. St. John of the Cross, Maxims and Counsels, 53 in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, tr. K. Kavanaugh, OCD, and O. Rodriguez, OCD
(Washington DC: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1979), 678.
14. Cf. Mt 26:40.
15. Cf. Mk 10:22.
16. Cf. Mt 6:21, 24.
17. PS 27:8.
18. Jn 12:24.
19. Cf. Lk 8:6, 13.
20. Jn 15:5.
21. Mt 26:41.
22. Cf. Rom 5:3-5.
23. Rom 8:26.
24. Cf. Mt 6:8.
25. Cf. Rom 8:27.
26. Jas 4:3; cf. the whole context: Jas 4:1-10; 1:5-8; 5:16.
27. Jas 4:4.
28. Jas 4:5.
29. Evagrius Ponticus, De oratione 34: PG 79, 1173.
30. St. Augustine, Ep. 130, 8, 17: PL 33, 500.
31. Cf. Rom 10:12-13; 8:26-39.
32. Cf. Heb 5:7; 7:25; 9:24
33. 1. Thess 5:17; Eph 5:20.
34. Eph 6:18.
35. Evagrius Ponticus, Pract. 49: PG 40, 1245C.
36. Cf. Mt 28:20; Lk 8:2.4.
37. St. John Chrysostom, Ecloga de oratione 2: PG 63, 585.
38. Cf. Gal 5:16-25.
39. St. John Chrysostom, De Anna 4, 5: PG 54, 666.
40. , Del gran Mezzo della preghiera.
41. Jn 15:16-17.
42. Origen, De orat. 12: PG 11, 452c.
43. Cf. Jn 17.
44. Cf. Jn 17:11, 13, 19.
45. Cf. Eph 1:10.
46. Cf. Jn 17:11, 13, 19, 24.
47. Cf. Jn 17:6, 11, 12, 26.
48. Cf. Jn 17:1, 5, 10, 22, 23-26.
49. Cf. Jn 17:2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 24.
50. Cf. Jn 17:15.
51. Cf. Jn 17:3, 6-10, 25. 


SECTION TWO: THE LORD'S PRAYER

1. Lk 11:1.
2. Cf. Lk 11:2-4.
3. Cf. Mt 6:9-13.
4. Didache 8, 2: SCh 248, 174.
5. Apostolic Constitutions, 7, 24, 1: PG 1,1016.
6. Titus 2:13; cf. Roman Missal 22, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer.
7. Tertullian, De orat. 1: PL 1, 1155.
8. Tertullian, De orat. 10: PL 1, 1165; cf. Lk 11:9.
9. St. Augustine, Ep. 130, 12, 22: PL 33, 503.
10. Cf. Lk 24:44.
11. Cf. Mt 5-7.
12. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 83, 9.
13. Cf. Jn 17:7.
14. Cf. Mt 6:7; 1 Kings 18:26-29.
15. Jn 6:63.
16. Gal 4:6.
17. Rom 8:27.
18. Cf. Didache 8, 3: SCh 248, 174.
19. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Mt. 19, 4: PG 57, 278.
20. 1 Pet 1:23.
21. Cf. 1 Pet 2:1-10.
22. 1 Jn 3:2; Cf. Col 3:4.
23. 1 Cor 11:26.
24. Tertullian, De orat. 1 PL 1, 1251-1255.
25. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 83, 9.
26. Ex 3:5.
27. Heb 1:3; 2:13.
28. St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 71, 3: PL 52, 401 CD; cf. Gal 4:6.
29. Cf. Eph 3:12; Heb 3:6; 4:16; 10:19; 1 Jn 2:28; 3:21; 5:14.
30. Mt 11:25-27.
31. Tertullian De orat. 3: PL 1, 1155.
32. Cf. Jn 1:1; 1 Jn 5:1.
33. Cf. 1. Jn 1:3.
34. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 3, 1: PG 33, 1088A.
35. St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 9: PL 4, 525A.
36. Cf. GS 22 # 1.
37. St. Ambrose De Sacr. 5, 4, 19: PL 16:450-451.
38. St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 11 PL 4:526B.
39. St. John Chrysostom, De orat Dom. 3: PG 51, 44.
40. St. Gregory of Nyssa, De orat. Dom. 2: PG 44, 1148B.
41. Mt 18:3.
42. Cf. Mt 11:25.
43. St. John Cassian, Coll. 9, 18 PL 49, 788c.
44. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2, 4, 16: PL 34, 1276.
45. Jn 1:17; Cf. Hos 2:21-22; 6:1-6.
46. Rev 21:7.
47. Cf. 1 Jn 5:1; Jn 3:5.
48. Rom 8:29; Cf. Eph 4:4-6.
49. Acts 4:32.
50. Cf. UR 8; 22.
51. Cf. Mt 5:23-24; 6:14-15.
52. Cf. NA 5.
53. Jn 11:52.
54. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2, 5, 18: PL 34, 1277.
55. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5:11: PG 33, 1117.
56. Cf. Gen 3.
57. Jer 3:19-4:1a; Lk 15:18, 21.
58. Cf. Isa 45:8; Ps 85:12.
59. Jn 3:13; 12:32; 14 2-3; 16:28; 20:17; Eph 4:9-10; Heb 1:3; 2:13.
60. Eph 2:6; Col 3:3.
61. 2. Cor 5:2; cf. Phil 3:20; Heb 13:14.
62. Ad Diognetum 5: PG 2, 1173.
63. Ps 42:7.
64. Cf. Lk 22:14; 12:50.
65. Cf. 1 Cor 15:28.
66. Cf. Ps 111:9; Lk 1:49.
67. Eph 1:9, 4.
68. Cf. Ps 8; Isa 6:3.
69. Ps 8:5; Rom 3:23; cf. Gen 1:26.
70. Col 3:10.
71. Cf. Heb 6:13.
72. Ex 15:1 cf. 3:14.
73. Cf. Ex 19:5-6.
74. Ezek 20:9, 14, 22, 39; cf. Lev 19:2.
75. Cf. Mt 1:21; Lk 1:31, Jn 8:28; 17:8; 17:17-19.
76. Jn 17:11, 19.
77. Cf. Ezek 20:39; 36:20-21; Jn 17:6.
78. Phil 2:9-11.
79. 2. Cor 6:11.
80. 1. Cor 1:30; cf. 1 Thess 4:7.
81. St. Cyprian De Dom. orat. 12: PL 4, 527A; Lev 20:26.
82. St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 71, 4: PL 52:402A; cf. Rom 2:24; Ezek 36:20-22.
83. Tertullian, De orat. 3: PL 1:1157A.
84. Cf. Jn 14:13; 15:16; 16:24, 26.
85. Jn 17:11.
86. St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 13 PL 4, 528A.
87. Tertullian, De orat. 5: PL 1,1159A; cf. Heb 4:11; Rev 6:9; 22:20.
88. Cf. Titus 2:13.
89. Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118.
90. Rom 14:17.
91. Cf. Gal 5:16-25.
92. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5, 13: PG 33, 1120A; cf. Rom 6:12.
93. Cf. GS 22; 32; 39; 45; EN 31.
94. Cf. Jn 17:17-20; Mt 5:13-16; 6:24; 7:12-13.
95. 1 Tim 2:3-4.
96. 2. Pet 3:9; cf. Mt 18:14.
97. Jn 13:34; cf. 1 Jn 3; 4; Lk 10:25-37.
98. Eph 1:9-11.
99. Heb 10:7; Ps 40:7.
100. Jn 8:29.
101. Lk 22:42; cf. Jn 4:34; 5:30; 6:38.
102. Gal 1:4.
103. Heb 10:10.
104. Heb 5:8.
105. Cf. Jn 8:29.
106. Origen, De orat. 26 PG 11, 501B.
107. St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Mt. 19, 5 PG 57, 280.
108. Rom 12:2; Cf. Eph 5:17; Cf. Heb 10:36.
109. Mt 7:21.
110. Jn 9:31; Cf. 1 Jn 5:14.
111. Cf. Lk 1:38, 49.
112. St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. 2, 6, 24: PL 34, 1279.
113. Mt 5:45.
114. PS 104:27.
115. Cf. Mt 6:25-34.
116. Cf. 2. Thess 3:6-13.
117. St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 21 PL 4, 534A.
118. Cf. Lk 16:19-31; Mt 25:31-46.
119. Cf. AA 5.
120. Cf. 2 Cor 8:1-15.
121. Cf. St. Benedict Regula, 20, 48.
122. Attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola, cf. Joseph de Guibert, SJ, The Jesuits: Their Spiritual Doctrine and Practice, (Chicago: Loyola University Press,
1964), 148, n. 55.
123. Deut 8:3; Mt 4:4.
124. Am 8:11.
125. Cf. Jn 6:26-58.
126. Cf. Mt 6:34; Ex 16:19.
127. St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5, 4, 26: PL 16, 453A; cf. Ps 2:7.
128. Cf. Ex 16:19-21.
129. Cf. 1. Tim 6:8.
130. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 PG 5, 661; Jn 6:53-56.
131. St. Augustine, Sermo 57, 7: PL 38, 389.
132. St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 67 PL 52, 392; Cf. Jn 6:51.
133. Cf. Lk 15:11-32, 18:13.
134. Col 1:14; Eph 1:7.
135. Cf. Mt 26:28; Jn 20:23.
136. Cf. l Jn 4:20.
137. Cf. Mt 6:14-15; 5:23-24; Mk 11:25.
138. Mt 19:26.
139. Mt 5:48; Lk 6:36; Jn 13:34.
140. Cf. Gal 5:25; Phil 2:1,5.
141. Eph 4:32.
142. Cf. Jn 13:1.
143. Cf. Mt 18:23-35.
144. Cf. Mt 5:43-44.
145. Cf. 2 Cor 5:18-21; John Paul II, DM 14.
146. Cf. Mt 18:21-22; Lk 17:3-4.
147. Rom 13:8.
148. Cf. Mt 5:23-24; 1 Jn 3:19-24.
149. St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 23: PL 4, 535-536; cf. Mt 5:24.
150. Cf. Mt 26 41.
151. Jas 113.
152. Cf. Lk. 8:13-15; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; 2 Tim 3:12.
153. Cf. Jas 1:14-15.
154. Cf. Gen 3:6.
155. Origen, De orat. 29 PG 11, 544 CD.
156. Mt 6:21, 24.
157. Gal 5:25.
158. 1 Cor 10:13.
159. Cf. Mt 4:1-11; 26:36-44.
160. Jn 17:11; Cf. Mk 13:9, 23, 33-37; 14:38; Lk 12:35-40.
161. Cf. 1 Cor 16:13; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 5:6; 1 Pet 5:8.
162. Rev 16:15.
163. Jn 17:15.
164. Cf. RP 16.
165. Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9.
166. Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 125.
167. 1 Jn 5:18-19.
168. St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5, 4, 30: PL 16, 454; cf. Rom 8:31.
169. Jn 14:30.
170. Jn 12:31; Rev 12:10.
171. Rev 12:13-16.
172. Rev 12:17.
173. Rev 22:17,20.
174. Rev 1:8,18; cf. Rev 1:4; Eph 1:10.
175. Roman Missal, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer, 126: Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, da propitius pacem in diebus nostris, ut,
ope misericordiae tuae adiuti, et a peccato simus semper liberi, et ab omni perturbatione securi: expectantes beatam spem et adventum Salvatoris nostri Iesu
Christi. {Deliver us, we ask you, Oh, Lord, from all evil, and grant us of your goodness peace in our days so that, aided by the power of your mercy, we
may be freed from all our sins and safe from all turmoil, as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ - JHL}
176. Cf. Rev 1:6; 4:11; 5:13.
177. Cf. Lk 4:5-6.
178. 1 Cor 15:24-28.
179. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5,18: PG 33, 1124; cf. Cf. Lk 1:38. 

ABBREVIATIONS 

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 AA
          Apostolicam actuositatem, "Decree on the Apostolate of Laity"
 AAS
          Acta Apostolicae Sedis, {"Acts of the Apostolic See". This is an index of all publications relating to the papacy. To request a catalog, kindly
          mail to the following address: Vatican Publishing House 00120 Vatican City Tel. +39 6 698.85003 Fax. +39 6 698.84716. - JHL}
 AF
          J. B. Lightfoot, ed., The Apostolic Fathers (New York: Macmillan, 1889-1890) The most recent publication is The Apostolic Fathers by J.
          B. Lightfoot, Michael William Holmes (Editor), J. R. Harmer
 AG
          Ad gentes, "Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church" (542)
 Ben
          de Benedictionibus (550)
 CA
          Centesimus annus, "On the Centenary of the Encyclical, 'Rerum Novarum'" (546)
 Catech. R.
          Catechismus Romanus (The Roman Catechism) [Click here for comments in the Catholic Encyclopedia and here for an on-line text,/a>}(547)
 CCEO
          Corpus Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium {"Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches" (Click here for commentary for Eastern Catholics in
          the United States) - JHL}(549)
 CCL
          Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina (Turnhout, 1953- ) {The Body of Christianity, Latin Series - The reference is to a CD-ROM containing
          the texts of the Ecumenical Councils - JHL}
 CD
          Christus Dominus, "Decree Concerning the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church" (541)
 CDF
          Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (547)
 CELAM
          Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano {Latin American Conference of Catholic Bishops - JHL} (547)
 CIC
          Codex Iuris Canonici {Code of Canon Law - JHL} (547)
 CL
          Christifideles laici, "Apostolic exhortation on the vocation of the Lay Faithful" (546)
 COD
          Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta {Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils - JHL}
 CPG
          Solemn Profession of Faith: Credo of the People of God (545)
 CSEL
          Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum {Body of Documents of the Latin Church - JHL} (Vienna, 1866- )
 CT
          Catechesi tradendae, "Apostolic exhortation on Catechesis" (545)
 DeV
          Dominum et Vivificanum, "On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World" (546)
 DH
          Dignitatis humanae, "Declaration on Religious Freedom" (542)
 DM
          Dives in misericordia, Encyclical "Rich in Mercy" (546)
 DS
          Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {Handbook of symbols, definitions,
          and declarations regarding faith and morals - JHL} (1965)
 DV
          Dei Verbum, "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (541)
 EN
          Evangelii nuntiandi, Apostolic exhortation on the "Proclamation of the Gospel" (545)
 EP
          Eucharistic Prayer
 FC
          Familiaris consortio, Apostolic exhortation "The Family in the Modern World" (546)
 GCD
          General Catechetical Directory (547)
 GE
          Gravissimum educationis, "Declaration on Christian Education" (541)
 GILH
          General Introduction to LH {The Liturgy of the Hours - JHL} (550)
 GIRM
          General Instruction of the Roman Missal (549)
 GS
          Gaudium et spes, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (542)
 HV
          Humanae vitae, Encyclical on the Regulation of Birth (545)
 ICEL
          International Commission on English in the Liturgy
 IM
          Inter mirifica, Decree on the Media of Social Communications (540)
 LE
          Laborem exercens, Encyclical "On Human Work" (546)
 LG
          Lumen gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (540)
 LH
          Liturgy of the Hours (550)
 LXX
          Septuagint
 MC
          Marialis cultus, Apostolic exhortation on Devotion to the Blessed Mother (545)
 MD
          Mulieris dignitatem, Apostolic letter on the Dignityy of Women (546)
 MF
          Mysterium fidei, Enccyclical on the Holy Eucharist (545)
 MM
          Mater et magistra, Encyclical on Christianity and Social Progress (545)
 NA
          Nostra aetate, Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (541)
 NCCB
          National Conference of Catholic Bishops (U.S.A.)
 ND
          Neuner-Dupuis, The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church
 OBA
          Ordo baptismi adultorum {Rite of Baptism of Adults - JHL} (550)
 OC
          Ordo confirmationis {Rite of Confirmation - JHL}(550)
 OCF
          Order of Christlan Funerals (550)
 OCM
          Ordo celebrandi Matrimonium {Rite of Celebration of Marriage - JHL}(550)
 OCV
          Ordo consecrationis virginum {Rite of Consecration of Virgins - JHL}(550)
 OE
          Orientalium ecclesiarum, Decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite (541)
 OP
          Ordo paenitentiae {Rite of Penance - JHL}(550)
 OR
          Office of Readings
 OT
          Optatam totius, Decree on Priestly Training (541)
 PC
          Perfectae caritatis, Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life (541)
 PG
          J. P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca (Writings of the Greek Fathers) (Paris, 1857-1866)
 PL
          J. P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina (Writings of the Latin Fathers) (Paris: 1841-1855)
 PLS
          J. P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina Supplement
 PO
          Presbyterorum ordinis, Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests (542)
 PP
          Populorum progressio, Encyclical on the Development of Peoples (545)
 PT
          Pacem in terris, Encl;ical on Establishing Universal Peace (545)
 RBC
          Rite of Baptism of Children (550)
 RCIA
          Rite of christian initiation of adults (550)
 RH
          Redemptor hominis, Encyclical "Redeemer of Mankind" (545)
 RomM
          Roman Missal (549)
 RMat
          Redemptoris Mater, Encyclical on the "Mother of the Reemer" (546)
 RMiss
          Redemptoris Missio, Encyclical on the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate (546)
 RP
          Reconciliatio et paenitentia, Apostolic exhortation on "Reconciliation and Penance" (546)
 SC
          Sacrosanctum concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (539)
 SCG
          Summa Contra Gentiles (A Summation Against the Gentiles, by St. Thomas Aquinas)
 SCh
          Sources Chretiennes (Paris: 1942- )
 SRS
          Sollicitudo rei socialis, "The Social Concern of the Church" (546)
 STh
          Summa Theologiae (A Summation of Theology, by St. Thomas Aquilas)
 UR
          Unitatis redintegratio, Decree on Ecumenism(541) 


The following abbreviations are used for the books of the Bible {Protestant Revised Standard Version and Catholic New American Bible} cited in the text: 

              Abbreviation
                                                Book
                                                               Revised Standard Version
                                                                 from the University of
                                                                      Michigan
                                                                                        New American Bible at the NCCB
                                                                                                  website 
 {Note - Those wishing to study the bible further
 may be interested in , a website with links to
 download a BUNCH of bibles - JHL} 
 Gen
                                       Genesis
                                                              Genesis
                                                                                       Genesis
 Ex
                                       Exodus
                                                              Exodus
                                                                                       Exodus
 Len
                                       Leviticus
                                                              Leviticus
                                                                                       Leviticus
 Num
                                       Numbers
                                                              Numbers
                                                                                       Numbers
 Deut
                                       Deuteronomy
                                                              Deuteronomy
                                                                                       Deuteronomy
 Josh
                                       Joshua
                                                              Joshua
                                                                                       Joshua
 Judg
                                       Judges
                                                              Judges
                                                                                       Judges
 Ruth
                                       Ruth
                                                              Ruth
                                                                                       Ruth
 1 Sam
                                       1 Samuel
                                                              1 Samuel
                                                                                       1 Samuel
 2 Sam
                                       2 Samuel
                                                              2 Samuel
                                                                                       2 Samuel
 1 Kings
                                       1 Kings
                                                              1 Kings
                                                                                       1 Kings
 2 Kings
                                       2 Kings
                                                              2 Kings
                                                                                       2 Kings
 1 Chr
                                       1 Chronicles
                                                              1 Chronicles
                                                                                       1 Chronicles
 2 Chr
                                       2 Chronicles
                                                              2 Chronicles
                                                                                       2 Chronicles
 Ezra
                                       Ezra
                                                              Ezra
                                                                                       Ezra
 Neh
                                       Nehemiah
                                                              Nehemiah
                                                                                       Nehemiah
 Esth
                                       Esther
                                                              Esther
                                                                                       Esther
 Job
                                       Job
                                                              Job
                                                                                       Job
 Ps
                                       Psalms
                                                              Psalms
                                                                                       Psalms {Note- Catholic Bibles do not
                                                                                       contain Psalm 151 - JHL}
 Prow
                                       Proverbs
                                                              Proverbs
                                                                                       Proverbs
 Eccl
                                       Ecclesiastes
                                                              Ecclesiastes
                                                                                       Ecclesiastes
 Song
                                       Song of Solomon
                                                              Song of Solomon
                                                                                       Song of Solomon
 Isa
                                       Isaiah
                                                              Isaiah
                                                                                       Isaiah
 per
                                       Jeremiah
                                                              Jeremiah
                                                                                       Jeremiah
 Lam
                                       Lamentations
                                                              Lamentations
                                                                                       Lamentations
 Ezek
                                       Ezekiel
                                                              Ezekiel
                                                                                       Ezekiel
 Dan
                                       Daniel
                                                              Daniel
                                                                                       Daniel
 Hos
                                       Hosea
                                                              Hosea
                                                                                       Hosea
 Joel
                                       Joel
                                                              Joel
                                                                                       Joel
 Am
                                       Amos
                                                              Amos
                                                                                       Amos
 Ob
                                       Obadiah
                                                              Obadiah
                                                                                       Obadiah
 Jon
                                       Jonah
                                                              Jonah
                                                                                       Jonah
 Mic
                                       Micah
                                                              Micah
                                                                                       Micah
 Nah
                                       Nahum
                                                              Nahum
                                                                                       Nahum
 Hab
                                       Habakkuk
                                                              Habakkuk
                                                                                       Habakkuk
 Zeph
                                       Zephaniah
                                                              Zephaniah
                                                                                       Zephaniah
 Hag
                                       Haggai
                                                              Haggai
                                                                                       Haggai
 Zech
                                       Zechariah
                                                              Zechariah
                                                                                       Zechariah
 Mat
                                       Malachi
                                                              Malachi
                                                                                       Malachi
 Tob
                                       Tobit
                                                              Tobit
                                                                                       Tobit
 Jdt
                                       Judith
                                                              Judith
                                                                                       Judith
 Add Esth
                                       Additions to Esther
                                                              Additions to the Book of
                                                              Esther
                                                                                       Prologue to Esther, Chapter A
 Wis
                                       Wisdom
                                                              Wisdom of Solomon
                                                                                       Wisdom
 Sir
                                       Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
                                                              Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach
                                                                                       Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
 Bar
                                       Baruch
                                                              Baruch
                                                                                       Baruch
 1 Esd
                                       1 Esdras
                                                              1 Esdras
                                                                                       {The Books of Esdras are not
                                                                                       recognized as canonical by the Catholic
                                                                                       Church - JHL}
 2 Esd
                                       2 Esdras
                                                              2 Esdras
                                                                                       {The Books of Esdras are not
                                                                                       recognized as canonical by the Catholic
                                                                                       Church - JHL}
 Let Jer
                                       Letter of Jeremiah
                                                              Letter of Jeremiah
                                                                                       Baruch Chapter 6
 Song of Thr
                                       Prayer of Azariah and the
                                       Song of the Three Jews
                                                              Prayer of Azariah
                                                                                       Daniel 3:24-90
 Sus
                                       Susanna
                                                              Susanna
                                                                                       Daniel 13
 Bet
                                       Bel and the Dragon
                                                              Bel and the Dragon
                                                                                       Daniel 14
 1 Macc
                                       1 Maccabees
                                                              1 Maccabees
                                                                                       1 Maccabees
 2 Macc
                                       2 Maccabees
                                                              2 Maccabees
                                                                                       2 Maccabees
 3 Macc
                                       3 Maccabees
                                                              3 Maccabees
                                                                                       {3 and 4 Maccabees are not recognized
                                                                                       as canonical by the Catholic Church -
                                                                                       JHL}
 4 Macc
                                       4 Maccabees
                                                              4 Maccabees
                                                                                       {3 and 4 Maccabees are not recognized
                                                                                       as canonical by the Catholic Church -
                                                                                       JHL}
 Pr Man
                                       Prayer of Manasseh
                                                              Prayer of Manasseh
                                                                                       {The Prayer of Manasseh is not
                                                                                       recognized as canonical by the Catholic
                                                                                       Church - JHL}
 Mt
                                       Matthew
                                                              Matthew
                                                                                       Matthew
 Mk
                                       Mark
                                                              Mark
                                                                                       Mark
 Lk
                                       Luke
                                                              Luke
                                                                                       Luke
 An
                                       John
                                                              John
                                                                                       John
 Acts
                                       Acts of the Apostles
                                                              Acts
                                                                                       Acts of the Apostles
 Rom
                                       Romans
                                                              Romans
                                                                                       Romans
 1 Cor
                                       1 Corinthians
                                                              1 Corinthians
                                                                                       1 Corinthians
 2 Cor
                                       2 Corinthians
                                                              2 Corinthians
                                                                                       2 Corinthians
 Gal
                                       Galatians
                                                              Galatians
                                                                                       Galatians
 Eph
                                       Ephesians
                                                              Ephesians
                                                                                       Ephesians
 Phil
                                       Philippians
                                                              Philippians
                                                                                       Philippians
 Cot
                                       Colossians
                                                              Colossians
                                                                                       Colossians
 1 Thess
                                       1 Thessalonians
                                                              1 Thessalonians
                                                                                       1 Thessalonians
 2 Thess
                                       2 Thessalonians
                                                              2 Thessalonian
                                                                                       2 Thessalonians
 1 Tim
                                       1 Timothy
                                                              1 Timothy
                                                                                       1 Timothy
 2 Tim
                                       2 Timothy
                                                              2 Timothy
                                                                                       2 Timothy
 Titus
                                       Titus
                                                              Titus
                                                                                       Titus
 Philem
                                       Philemon
                                                              Philemon
                                                                                       Philemon
 Heb
                                       Hebrews
                                                              Hebrews
                                                                                       Hebrews
 Jas
                                       James
                                                              James
                                                                                       James
 1 Pet
                                       1 Peter
                                                              1 Peter
                                                                                       1 Peter
 2 Pet
                                       2 Peter
                                                              2 Peter
                                                                                       2 Peter
 1 Jn
                                       1 John
                                                              1 John
                                                                                       1 John
 2 Jn
                                       2 John
                                                              2 John
                                                                                       2 John
 3 Jn
                                       3 John
                                                              3 John
                                                                                       3 John
 Jude
                                       Jude
                                                              Jude
                                                                                       Jude
 Rev
                                       Revelation
                                                              Revelation
                                                                                       Revelation