![]() It is a supernatural and gratuitous gift of God just as is the grace which leads to it. This happiness surpasses human capabilities. It is the vision of God in eternal life in which we are fully “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4), of the glory of Christ and of the joy of the trinitarian life. The beatitudes respond to the innate desire for happiness that God has placed in the human heart in order to draw us to himself. What is the relationship between the beatitudes and our desire for happiness? They reveal the ultimate goal of human activity, which is eternal happiness.ģ61. They depict the very countenance of Jesus and they characterize authentic Christian life. The beatitudes are at the heart of Jesus’ preaching and they take up and fulfill the promises that God made starting with Abraham. The grace of Christ also is operative in every person who, following a correct conscience, seeks and loves the true and the good and avoids evil.ģ60. Christ in the Gospel points out to his followers the way that leads to eternal happiness: the beatitudes. We attain beatitude by virtue of the grace of Christ which makes us participants in the divine life. Endowed with a spiritual and immortal soul, intelligence and free will, the human person is ordered to God and called in soul and in body to eternal beatitude. ![]() The dignity of the human person is rooted in his or her creation in the image and likeness of God. “O Christian, recognize your dignity.” (Saint Leo the Great) Indeed, through them the faithful receive the grace of Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit which give them the capability of living a new life as children of God in Christ whom they have received in faith. What the symbol of faith professes, the sacraments communicate. How is the Christian moral life bound up with faith and the sacraments? The Compendium is available in English and Spanish from the USCCB.Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church Part 4ģ57. The second appendix contains "Formulas of Catholic Doctrine" including the Ten Commandments, Beatitudes, theological and cardinal virtues, and spiritual and corporal works of mercy. The first is a list of Catholic Prayers including the Our Father and Hail Mary in English or Spanish, side-by-side with the Latin version of the prayers. In addition to the questions and answers, the Compendium also includes two appendices. While the text does contain some direct quotes from the Catechism used in a sidebar fashion, the questions and answers themselves are original text. It is structured in four parts, much like the widely-used Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Compendium consists of 598 questions and answers, echoing to some degree the format of the "Baltimore Catechism" which was a standard text in many Catholic parishes and schools from 1885 to the 1960s. In the Motu Proprio announcing its publication, Pope Benedict XVI described the Compendium as "a faithful and sure synthesis of the Catechism of the Catholic Church." Benedict said the work "contains, in concise form, all the essential and fundamental elements of the Church's faith." The work was entrusted to a Commission of Cardinals presided over by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Following the International Catechetical Congress in 2002, the Holy Father instructed that a synthesis of the Catechism be prepared. The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is a summarized version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
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