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We Have All Received Grace upon Grace
SALVATION From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.John 1, 16 The verse John 1:16, “From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace,” carries profound significance within a Catholic context. This passage encapsulates the core of Christian belief about the nature of Jesus Christ, highlighting His divine abundance and the transformative…
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Baptized for the Dead
PURGATORY When everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will also besubjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God maybe all in all. Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselvesbaptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why arethey having themselves baptized for…
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Guilty of an Everlasting Sin
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against…
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The Two Shall Become One
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed up its…
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A Chosen Race, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation
THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of himwho called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 Peter 2, 9 1 Peter Chapter 1 is set against the backdrop of the early Christian community…
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Children of God
DIVINE ADOPTION See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are.The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do…
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You Are the Body of Christ
THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to…
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There Is Sin that Is Mortal
MORTAL & VENIAL SINS If you see your brother or sister committing what is not a mortal sin, you will ask,and God will give life to such a one—to those whose sin is not mortal. There is sinthat is mortal; I do not say that you should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin,but there…
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You Will Do Greater Works than These
STEWARDSHIP OF GRACE Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and,in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.John 14:12 In John 14:12, Jesus delivers an assuring message to His disciples during the Last Supper—a pivotal moment…
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But Only as Through Fire
PURGATORY According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is…
Scriptural & Traditional Catholicism
Being Catholic 