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for "Grace" in The Profession of Faith. Showing 76-85.
Paragraph 981
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS"
"...Church, the soul dead through sin comes back to life in order to live with Christ, whose grace has saved us.[526]"
Paragraph 987
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
"...and liberal giver of salvation, wills to use in order to efface our sins and give us the grace of justification" (Roman Catechism, I, 11, 6)."
Paragraph 1006
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY"
"...natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of sin."[566] For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.[567]"
Paragraph 1010
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY"
"..."died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act:
It is better for me to die in (eis) Christ Jesus than to reign..."
Paragraph 1013
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY"
"Death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny. When "the single course of our earthly life" is completed,[584] we shall not..."
Paragraph 1021
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
"Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ.[590] The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that..."
Paragraph 1023
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
"Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he is," face to face:[596]
By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of..."
Paragraph 1030
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT › "I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
"All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven."
Paragraph 1052
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
""We believe that the souls of all who die in Christ's grace . . . are the People of God beyond death. On the day of resurrection, death will be definitively conquered, when these souls will be reunited with their bodies" (Paul VI, CPG # 28)."
Paragraph 1054
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH › THE CREEDS › I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
"Those who die in God's grace and friendship imperfectly purified, although they are assured of their eternal salvation, undergo a purification after death, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of God."