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LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › THE MORAL LAW
"...and every man, because it is human reason ordaining him to do good and forbidding him to sin . . . But this command of human reason would not have the force of law if it were not the voice and interpreter of a higher reason to which our spirit and our freedom must be..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › THE MORAL LAW
"...a prophecy of things to come."[17] It prophesies and presages the work of liberation from sin which will be fulfilled in Christ: it provides the New Testament with images, "types," and symbols for expressing the life according to the Spirit. Finally, the Law is completed by..."
Paragraph 1988
LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
"Through the power of the Holy Spirit we take part in Christ's Passion by dying to sin, and in his Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is the Church, branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:[36]
(God) gave himself to us through his..."
Paragraph 1989
LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
"...the kingdom of heaven is at hand."[38] Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high. "Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man.[39]"
Paragraph 1995
LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
"...members to righteousness for sanctification.... But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.[45]"
Paragraph 1999
LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE › GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
"...God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification:[48]
Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a..."
Paragraph 2018
LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
"...justification has two aspects. Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, and so accepts forgiveness and righteousness from on high."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT › GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
"...his life that God makes to us; it is infused by the Holy Spirit into the soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
"...and mother," the "ten words" point out the conditions of a life freed from the slavery of sin. the Decalogue is a path of life:
If you love the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
"...the covenant. the first of the "ten words" recalls that God loved his people first:
Since there was a passing from the paradise of freedom to the slavery of this world, in punishment for sin, the first phrase of the Decalogue, the first word of God's commandments, bears..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
"...To attain a complete and certain understanding of the requirements of the natural law, sinful humanity needed this revelation:
A full explanation of the commandments of the Decalogue became necessary in the state of sin because the light of reason was obscured and the..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
"One can sin against God's love in various ways:
- indifference neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity; it fails to consider its prevenient goodness and denies its power.
- ingratitude fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love.
-..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
"...God is to praise and exalt him and to humble oneself, as Mary did in the Magnificat, confessing with gratitude that he has done great things and holy is his name.[14] The worship of the one God sets man free from turning in on himself, from the slavery of sin and the idolatry..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
"...actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us.[52]"
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
"Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion.[61] The imputability of this offense can be significantly diminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. "Believers can have more than a little to do with the rise of..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART...
"Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the first commandment."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
"...defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one's speech; in misusing God's name. St. James condemns those "who blaspheme that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called."[78] The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ's..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART... › THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
"...by their own pastor.[119] Those who deliberately fail in this obligation commit a grave sin."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...Cain,[57] Scripture reveals the presence of anger and envy in man, consequences of original sin, from the beginning of human history. Man has become the enemy of his fellow man. God declares the wickedness of this fratricide: "What have you done? the voice of your brother's..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...homicide
The fifth commandment forbids direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful. the murderer and those who cooperate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.[68]
Infanticide,[69] fratricide, parricide, and the murder of a..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."[85] Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or..."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!"[89]"
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. the Lord says, "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."[95]"
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...the extermination of a people, nation, or ethnic minority must be condemned as a mortal sin. One is morally bound to resist orders that command genocide."
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LIFE IN CHRIST › THE TEN COMMANDMENTS › YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF › THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
"...these disorders contributes to building up peace and avoiding war:
Insofar as men are sinners, the threat of war hangs over them and will so continue until Christ comes again; but insofar as they can vanquish sin by coming together in charity, violence itself will be..."