Paragraph 3. THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST’S LIFE
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On the threshold of the public life: the baptism; on the threshold of the
Passover: the Transfiguration. Jesus’ baptism proclaimed “the mystery of
the first regeneration”, namely, our Baptism; the Transfiguration “is
the sacrament of the second regeneration”: our own
Resurrection.300 From now on we share in the Lord’s Resurrection
through the Spirit who acts in the sacraments of the Body of Christ. the
Transfiguration gives us a foretaste of Christ’s glorious coming, when he “will
change our lowly body to be like his glorious body.”301 But it
also recalls that “it is through many persecutions that we must enter the
kingdom of God”:302
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
- Article 3 “HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY”
- Paragraph 3. THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST’S LIFE
- Article 3 “HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY”
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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