PART THREE
LIFE IN CHRIST
SECTION ONE
MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER ONE
THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
ARTICLE 8
SIN
I. MERCY AND SIN
Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 1846
The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of
God's mercy to sinners (Luke 15). The angel announced to Joseph: "You shall
call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).The same is true of the Eucharist, the sacrament of redemption: "This is
my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of
sins"(Matthew 26:28)
Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 1847
"God created us without us: but He did not
will to save us without us"(St. Augustine, Sermo 169,11,13:PL 38,923). To
receive His mercy, we must admit our faults. "If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness"(1 John 1:8-9).
Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 1848
As St. Paul affirms, "Where sin increased,
grace abounded all the more" (Romans 5:20). But to do its work grace must uncover
sin so as to convert our hearts and bestow on us "righteousness to eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord"(Romans 5;21). Like a physician who probes the wound before treating it, God, by his Word
and by his Spirit, casts a living light on sin:
Conversion requires convincing of sin; it
includes the interior judgment of conscience, and this, being a proof of the
action of the Spirit of truth in man's inmost being, becomes at the same time
the start of a new grant of grace and love: "Receive the Holy
Spirit." Thus in this "convincing concerning sin" we discover a
double gift: the gift of the truth of conscience and the gift of the certainty
of redemption. The Spirit of truth is the Consoler.( John Paul II, DeV 31 § 2).
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