III. The Only Son of God

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Peter could recognize the transcendent character of the Messiah’s divine
sonship because Jesus had clearly allowed it to be so understood. To his
accusers’ question before the Sanhedrin, “Are you the Son of God,
then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am.”⁵⁰ Well
before this, Jesus referred to himself as “the Son” who knows the
Father, as distinct from the “servants” God had earlier sent to his
people; he is superior even to the angels.⁵¹ He distinguished his
sonship from that of his disciples by never saying “our Father”,
except to command them: “You, then, pray like this: ‘Our Father'”,
and he emphasized this distinction, saying “my Father and your
Father”.⁵²

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
  - ARTICLE 2 “AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD”
    - III. The Only Son of God

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team