Results for "Holy Spirit"

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"...obedience of Jesus to Joseph and Mary both announced and anticipated the obedience of Holy Thursday: "Not my will. . ."[223] The obedience of Christ in the daily routine of his hidden life was already inaugurating his work of restoring what the disobedience of Adam had..."

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"...with the celebration of that entry on Palm Sunday that the Church's liturgy solemnly opens Holy Week."

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"...in the interpretation of oral tradition; - the centrality of the Temple at Jerusalem as the holy place where God's presence dwells in a special way; - faith in the one God whose glory no man can share."

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"...feared that "everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation", the high priest Caiaphas replied by prophesying: "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not..."

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".... . the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.[388]"

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"...Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."[395] For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the..."

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"...of Christ's sacrifice as "the source of eternal salvation"[449] and teaches that "his most holy Passion on the wood of the cross merited justification for us."[450] and the Church venerates his cross as she sings: "Hail, O Cross, our only hope."[451]"

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"...the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb,[461] reveals God's great sabbath rest[462] after the fulfilment[463] of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.[464]"

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"...and "My flesh will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption."[472] Jesus' Resurrection "on the third day" was the proof of this, for bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death.[473]"

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"...the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":[480] "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."[481] Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to..."

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"...toward recognizing the very fact of the Resurrection. This was the case, first with the holy women, and then with Peter.[494] The disciple "whom Jesus loved" affirmed that when he entered the empty tomb and discovered "the linen cloths lying there", "he saw and..."

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"Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because the Sabbath began on the evening of Good Friday, were the first to encounter the Risen One.[497] Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ's..."

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"...disciples demoralized ("looking sad"[503]) and frightened. For they had not believed the holy women returning from the tomb and had regarded their words as an "idle tale".[504] When Jesus reveals himself to the Eleven on Easter evening, "he upbraided them for their unbelief..."

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"...heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old."[569] St. Paul echoes him: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"[570] The..."

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"...assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people.[140] By calling itself "Church," the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that assembly. In the Church, God is "calling together" his people..."

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"...is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were the prophets and in which the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles has been brought about and will be brought about again. That land, like a choice vineyard, has been..."

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"We begin our investigation of the Church's mystery by meditating on her origin in the Holy Trinity's plan and her progressive realization in history."

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""The one mediator, Christ, established and ever sustains here on earth his holy Church, the community of faith, hope, and charity, as a visible organization through which he communicates truth and grace to all men."[184] The Church is at the same time: - a "society structured..."

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""The holy People of God shares also in Christ's prophetic office," above all in the supernatural sense of faith that belongs to the whole People, lay and clergy, when it "unfailingly adheres to this faith . . . once for all delivered to the saints,"[210] and when it deepens its..."

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""You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people" (1 Pet 2:9)."

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"...worship, especially of the sacraments; - apostolic succession through the sacrament of Holy Orders, maintaining the fraternal concord of God's family.[266]"

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"...holiness. and so they turn their eyes to Mary":[306] in her, the Church is already the "all-holy.""

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"...or existing in the diaspora, Christ is present, through whose power and influence the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church is constituted."[312]"

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"...saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .[331]"

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""The sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, . . . subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him. Nevertheless, many elements of sanctification and of..."

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