United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

574 • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

God as sending His only Son so we might have: 86 grace and: 328-29 redemption and: 525 Sacraments of the New Law offered so all might have: 195 a saint as one who has been granted: 527 vocation and: 531 see also Heaven; Resurrection of the body Eternity: 4, 13, 22, 43, 82, 143, 162 our eternal destiny: 151-62 Sunday as signifying: 365 see also Eternal life; Kingdom of God Ethics: see specific topics, e.g., Education; Moral life “Ethnic cleansing”: 396 Eucharist, Holy; Communion; celebration of Mass: 213-32, 511 as an act of thanksgiving: 219, 228, 371, 468 as center of the Church’s contemplation: 487 changing of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of the Lord: 103, 171, 215-20, 222-23, 226 29, 493 as containing the whole treasure of the Church: 224, 228 effects of the Eucharist: 226 cleanses and separates us from sin: 225-26 communicates the mystery of the Holy Trinity: 119 establishes the community of believers: 226 forms recipients more closely to Christ: 224-25 growth in Christian life: 226-27, 229 makes present the Paschal Mystery: 224

conquering: 456 greed, as companion of: 450, 453, 455-56 pride and: 456 sadness at the sight of another’s prosperity: 450, 455 as subduing love: 455 the Tenth Commandment: 449, 456 see also Capital Sins; Jealousy Eparchy: 130 Epiclesis (Invocation): 219, 220, 511 see also Invocation Episcopacy: 511 see also Bishops Episcopal College: 133, 138, 265-66, 507 authority and: 133, 265-66, 507 Bishop of Rome and: 133, 266 bishops and: 133, 265-66 the Church and: 133 infallibility of: 133 teaching office of (see Magisterium) God as without equal: 51, 61 of Scripture and Tradition: 30 Eremitical life: see Evangelical counsels Error conscience and: 314-15, 320 history of the Church regarding: 22 using the “medicine of mercy” for: 22 see also Heresy; Schism; Sin Eschatology: see Death; Eternal life; Heaven; Hell; Judgment; Paradise Eternal death: see Hell Eternal life: 123, 159, 162, 307-8, 338, 343, 401 Anointing of the Sick as preparation for: 255, 258 Baptism and faith as granting us a share in: 38 everyone as called to holiness and: xvii full understanding to come only in: 62 Equality among human beings: 327 and differences between men and women: 68, 73, 279, 404, 411 of the Divine Persons: 104

saving grace of dying and rising Christ communicated to us: 215 as spiritual food: 223