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Magisterium, Catechism of the Catholic Church
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Catechism of the Catholic Church
I. The life of man - to know and love God
II. Handing on the Faith: Catechesis
III. The Aim and Intended Readership of the Catechism
IV. Structure of this Catechism
V. Practical Directions for Using this Catechism
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION ONE I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE
CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD
II. Ways of Coming to Know God
III. The Knowledge of God According to the Church
IV. How Can We Speak about God?
CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
Article 1 THE REVELATION OF GOD
Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION
CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD
Article 2 WE BELIEVE : The Credo
CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
Article 1 I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
ARTICLE 2 AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD
Article 3 HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Article 4 JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED
Article 5 HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN
Article 6 HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER
Article 7 FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAlN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
ARTICLE 8 I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 9 I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
Article 10 I BELIEVE IN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS
Article 11 I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY
Article 12 I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
SECTION ONE THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY
CHAPTER ONE THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH
Article 1 THE LITURGY - WORK OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Article 2 THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE CHURCH'S SACRAMENTS
CHAPTER TWO THE SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATION OF THE PASCHAL MYSTERY
Article 1 CELEBRATING THE CHURCH'S LITURGY
Article 2 LITURGICAL DIVERSITY AND THE UNITY OF THE MYSTERY
SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
Article 1 THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Article 2 THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION
Article 3 THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
CHAPTER TWO THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
Article 4 THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
Article 5 THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK
CHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION
ARTICLE 6 THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS
Article 7 THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
CHAPTER FOUR OTHER LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS
SECTION ONE MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER ONE THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Article 1 MAN: THE IMAGE OF GOD
Article 2 OUR VOCATION TO BEATITUDE
Article 4 THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS
Article 5 THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS
CHAPTER TWO THE HUMAN COMMUNION
Article 1 THE PERSON AND SOCIETY
Article 2 PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL LIFE
CHAPTER THREE GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2 GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
Article 3 THE CHURCH, MOTHER AND TEACHER
SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Article 1 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
Article 2 THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
Article 3 THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
ARTICLE 4 THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
Article 5 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
Article 6 THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
Article 7 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
Article 8 THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
Article 9 THE NINTH COMMANDMENT
Article 10 THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
SECTION ONE PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
CHAPTER ONE THE REVELATION OF PRAYER - THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO PRAYER
Article 1 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Article 2 IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
Article 3 IN THE AGE OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER TWO THE TRADITION OF PRAYER
Article 1 AT THE WELLSPRINGS OF PRAYER
CHAPTER THREE THE LIFE OF PRAYER
Article 1 EXPRESSIONS OF PRAYER
Article 2 THE BATTLE OF PRAYER
Article 3 THE PRAYER OF THE HOUR OF JESUS
Article 1 THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL
I. The Joint Mission of the Son and the Spirit
689 The One whom the Father has sent into our hearts, the Spirit of his Son, is truly God. 10 Consubstantial with the Father and the Son, the Spirit is inseparable from them, in both the inner life of the Trinity and his gift of love for the world. In adoring the Holy Trinity, life-giving, consubstantial, and indivisible, the Church's faith also professes the distinction of persons. When the Father sends his Word, he always sends his Breath. In their joint mission, the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct but inseparable. To be sure, it is Christ who is seen, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Spirit who reveals him.
690 Jesus is Christ, "anointed," because the Spirit is his anointing, and everything that occurs from the Incarnation on derives from this fullness. 11 When Christ is finally glorified, 12 he can in turn send the Spirit from his place with the Father to those who believe in him: he communicates to them his glory, 13 that is, the Holy Spirit who glorifies him. 14 From that time on, this joint mission will be manifested in the children adopted by the Father in the Body of his Son: the mission of the Spirit of adoption is to unite them to Christ and make them live in him:
The notion of anointing suggests . . . that there is no distance between the Son and the Spirit. Indeed, just as between the surface of the body and the anointing with oil neither reason nor sensation recognizes any intermediary, so the contact of the Son with the Spirit is immediate, so that anyone who would make contact with the Son by faith must first encounter the oil by contact. In fact there is no part that is not covered by the Holy Spirit. That is why the confession of the Son's Lordship is made in the Holy Spirit by those who receive him, the Spirit coming from all sides to those who approach the Son in faith. 15
10 Cf. Ò Gal 4:6. 11 Cf. Ò Jn 3:34. 12 Ò Jn 7:39. 13 Cf. Ò Jn 17:22. 14 Cf. Ò Jn 16:14. 15 St. Gregory of Nyssa, De Spiritu Sancto, 16: PG 45, 1321A-B.