Catechism Paragraph 2006
Part 3:
LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
You are glorified in the assembly of your Holy Ones, for in crowning their merits you are crowning your own gifts.[59]
The term "merit" refers in general to the recompense owed by a community or a society for the action of one of its members, experienced either as beneficial or harmful, deserving reward or punishment. Merit is relative to the virtue of justice, in conformity with the principle of equality which governs it.
š Footnotes
[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.