II. Dying in Christ Jesus
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Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: “For to me to
live is Christ, and to die is gain.”574 “The saying is sure:
if we have died with him, we will also live with him.575 What is
essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian
has already “died with Christ” sacramentally, in order to live a new
life; and if we die in Christ’s grace, physical death completes this
“dying with Christ” and so completes our incorporation into him in
his redeeming act:
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Article 11 “I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY”
- II. Dying in Christ Jesus
- Article 11 “I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY”
- CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2I.HTM