United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

560 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

“Chrismation”: 507

births, regulation of: 285-86, 391, 404, 409 as calling forth parents’ gifts: 383 conscience, formation of: 314-15, 320 couples without children: 285 duties of: 375-78, 383 duties of parents to: 189, 283-84, 378-79, 380, 383, 452 educating children in modesty: 442 educating children in the faith: 189, 378 First Communion of: 328 grown children: 375-79 marriage, procreative aspect of: 404, 524 obligation of parents to provide basic needs for: 278, 380, 383 parents’ best gift to: 189 parents’ love for: 378-79, 383 sexual union, as fruit of: 409 spiritual formation of: 189, 378 as supreme gift of love within marriage: 283 vocations of grown children, parents respecting: 378-79 what is demanded for the good of: 378, 380, 383 see also Education; Family; Marriage; Parents; Youth; specific topics adopted: 193, 207, 486 becoming a child of God: 189-90 God’s actions with respect to: 193 Holy Spirit’s presence in: 159, 161, 193 living life of, aids to: 193 as reborn in the Sacraments: 182, 193, 195, 486 see also Christians; Church; People of God; specific topics, e.g., Prayer Choice, free (free will): see Free will Chosen people, Israel as: 13, 131 see also Israel Children of God

as name for Confirmation in Eastern Churches: 107, 168, 186, 205, 210, 264 anointing with sacred: 186-87, 198 99, 204-5, 210 Confirmation and: 103 consecration of: 204

Chrism (Myron): 506

Christ: 507

see also Jesus Christ Christian faith: see Faith Christian Initiation:

see Initiation, Christian

Christian life

and attending Mass: 334 the Eucharist as source and summit of (see Eucharist) foundations of (see Initiation, Christian) and the sacredness of the home (see Domestic Church) See also Devotions; Formation; Godparents; Moral life; Prayer; Sacramentals; Trinity Baptism and the new life of: 181-99 death and: 153-61 harmony among: 123 non-Catholic: 127-29, 136, 193 sins of, as undermining credibility of faith: 4-5, 345, 356 see also Believers; Children of God; Moral life; People of God; specific topics, e.g., Prayer Christian, the term: 204 Christian unity: See Ecumenism Christian witness: see Witness, Christian Christmas: 507 the Church: 111-23, 122, 507 all members as linked to one another: 116, 122 Apostles’ confession of faith, as handing from generation to generation: 42, 138 Baptism as entrance to: 113, 116 17, 119, 122 Christians