Catechism of the Catholic Church

 PROLOGUE

 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

 VI. Necessary Adaptations

 PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

 SECTION ONE I BELIEVE - WE BELIEVE

 CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD

 I. The Desire 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?

 IN BRIEF

 CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN

 Article 1 THE REVELATION OF GOD

 Article 2 THE TRANSMISSION OF DIVINE REVELATION

 Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE

 CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD

 Article 1 I BELIEVE

 Article 2 WE BELIEVE

 Article 2 WE BELIEVE : The Credo

 SECTION TWO THE CREEDS

 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

 Article 1 SACRAMENTALS

 Article 2 CHRISTIAN FUNERALS

 PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

 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 3 MAN'S FREEDOM

 Article 4 THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS

 Article 5 THE MORALITY OF THE PASSIONS

 Article 6 MORAL CONSCIENCE

 Article 7 THE VIRTUES

 Article 8 SIN

 CHAPTER TWO THE HUMAN COMMUNION

 Article 1 THE PERSON AND SOCIETY

 Article 2 PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL LIFE

 Article 3 SOCIAL JUSTICE

 CHAPTER THREE GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE

 Article 1 THE MORAL LAW

 Article 2 GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION

 Article 3 THE CHURCH, MOTHER AND TEACHER

 SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

 CHAPTER ONE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND

 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

 PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER

 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

 Article 2 THE WAY OF PRAYER

 Article 3 GUIDES FOR 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

 SECTION TWO THE LORD'S PRAYER

                           THE LORD'S PRAYER

 Article 1 THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL

 Article 2 OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN

 Article 3 THE SEVEN PETITIONS

 Article 4 THE FINAL DOXOLOGY

SECTION ONE THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY

SECTION ONE

THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY

1076 The Church was made manifest to the world on the day of Pentecost by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 1 The gift of the Spirit ushers in a new era in the "dispensation of the mystery" the age of the Church, during which Christ manifests, makes present, and communicates his work of salvation

through the liturgy of his Church, "until he comes." 2 In this age of the Church Christ now lives and acts in and with his Church, in a new way appropriate to this new age. He acts through the sacraments in what the common Tradition of the East and the West calls "the sacramental economy"; this is the communication (or "dispensation") of the fruits of Christ's Paschal mystery in the celebration of the Church's "sacramental" liturgy.

It is therefore important first to explain this "sacramental dispensation" (chapter one). the nature and essential features of liturgical celebration will then appear more clearly (chapter two).

1 Cf. SC 6; LG 2.

2 Ò 1 Cor 11:26.