YOUCAT Lesson 343
YOUCAT the catechism
for Catholic youth
Chapter Three—The
Church
343 How does the Church help
us to lead a good, responsible life?
In the Church we are baptized. In the Church we receive the faith that the
Church has preserved intact down through the centuries. In the Church we hear the living Word of God
and learn how we must live if we want to please God. Through the sacraments that Jesus entrusted
to his disciples, the Church builds us up, strengthens, and consoles us. In the Church there is the blazing fire of
the saints, by which our hearts are kindled.
In the Church the Holy Eucharist is celebrated, in which Christ’s
sacrifice and strength are renewed for us in such a way that, united with him,
we become his Body and live by his strength.
Despite all her human weaknesses, apart from the Church no one can be a
Christian. [2030-2031, 2047]
“I am the Queen of Heaven…Gather the
children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for
salvation…Teach them their catechism, how to sign themselves with the sign of
the Cross, and how to approach the sacraments.
That is what I wish you to do. Go
and fear nothing, I will help you.” --Request of the Blessed Virgin Mary at a
site now known as Champion, Wisconsin in an apparition to Adele Brise, a
Belgium immigrant, returning home from Sunday Mass in 1859. …..343
“To love Christ is the same
thing as to love the Church.” Brother
Roger Schutz (1915-2005)
“Even today the Church gives me Jesus. That says it all. What would I know about him, what connection
would there be between him and me without the Church?” Henry Cardinal De Lubac, S.J. (1896-1961,
French theologian)
[2030-2031, 2047]
GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
ARTICLE 3
THE CHURCH, MOTHER AND TEACHER
2030 It is in the Church, in communion with all the baptized, that
the Christian fulfills his vocation. From the Church he receives the Word of
God containing the teachings of "the law of Christ."( Galatians 6:2.)72 From
the Church he receives the grace of the sacraments that sustains him on the
"way." From the Church he learns the example
of holiness and
recognizes its model and source in the all-holy Virgin Mary; he discerns it in
the authentic witness of those who live it; he discovers it in the spiritual
tradition and long history of the saints who have gone before him and whom the
liturgy celebrates in the rhythms of the sanctoral cycle. –Catechism
of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
2031 The moral life
is spiritual worship. We "present [our]
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,"( Romans 12:1.)73 within
the Body of Christ that we form and in communion with the offering of his
Eucharist. In the liturgy and the celebration of the sacraments, prayer and
teaching are conjoined with the grace of Christ to enlighten and nourish
Christian activity. As does the whole of the Christian life, the moral life
finds its source and summit in the Eucharistic sacrifice. --CCC
2047 The moral life is a spiritual worship. Christian activity finds its nourishment in the liturgy and the celebration of the sacraments. --CCC
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