United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Index • 609

Old age: see Elderly; specific topics Old Testament: xiv, 24, 32, 56, 522

unity with the New Testament: 24, 30 worship in: 363 see also Scripture, Sacred; specific topics

canon of the Scriptures and the: 24 Christ’s presence in: 104 the Church’s reading of the: 104 communicated to Moses: 328, 336 covenants as preparing for the Church: 14, 122, 235, 508 full meaning revealed in the Sermon on the Mount: 328 God revealing himself in: 12 God’s family as formed in: 122, 133 God the Father in: 104, 484 “Golden Rule” as summary of (see “Golden Rule”) Holy Spirit’s presence in: 104 Jesus as fulfilling and revealing its ultimate meaning: 80 Jesus as showing the full meaning of all that had been revealed in: 92, 321, 328, 526 love of God and love of neighbor rooted in the Law: 328 not abolished by Jesus: 328 the People of God in the: 120 prayer in: 464-66 preparation for the Church in: 113, 122 prepared the world for the Gospel: 336 as preparing the world for the Gospel: 328, 336 priesthood of the: 264 prophecies of the Messiah: 203 revealed law in: 326, 336, 526 reveals God as one, unique, without equal: 51, 61 revered as holy but in need of God’s grace for its fulfillment: 328 rituals in: 215-16 salvation and: 18 sin and God’s mercy in: 235 the Son as proclaimed obscurely in: 104 the Ten Commandments: 326 (see under Commandments)

Omission: 401 Ordained ministry: see Orders, Sacrament of Holy Orders, Sacrament of Holy: 261-75, 514 bishop as minister of: 267, 274 builds up the common priesthood of the faithful: 264, 274 call to holiness and attitude of humility that conforms recipient to Christ: 265 celibacy and Holy Orders: 270-71, 274 effects of capacity to act as Christ’s representative: 265 capacity to act in the name of the Church: 265 confers a gift of the Holy Spirit that permits the exercise of a “sacred power”: 264-65, 273 confers the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ: 263, 265-66, 268, 273-74 goals and significance of: 264-65, 274 God’s call to the ordained ministry: 269 Holy Spirit guaranteeing that the minister’s sin does not impede the effectiveness of the Sacrament and its graces: 265 indelible character of: 271 power to forgive sins: 236 as not preserving the ordained from weakness and sin: 265 Old Testament prefiguring of: 264 as one of the Seven Sacraments: 119, 169, 329 presence of Christ as head of the Church made visible in the midst of the community of believers: 265