United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

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seven petitions of: 485-89 as summary of the whole Gospel: 490 as uniting our will to that of Jesus

saving gifts of Christ encountered in: xx of St. John Chrysostom: 50, 61 Sundays and the celebration of: 172-73, 175, 178 use of signs, symbols, and rituals: 171-72, 175, 177 invoking the name of the Lord: 256 the title: 85 see also God; Jesus Christ see also Sunday The Lord’s Prayer: xxii, 481-95, 518 as addressed to God the Father: 484-85 as asking God to safeguard us from the path of sin: 488 as begging God’s mercy for our offenses: 484, 488 to be prayed with confidence that God will hear and answer: 467, 481 and coming of the Kingdom: 486, 494 context in which it is to be prayed as given by Jesus: 481-83 and the Eucharist: 483, 493 as given by Jesus to his disciples: 467, 482 as imploring the Spirit of discernment and strength: 488 as integral part of sacramental liturgies: 483, 493 as most perfect of prayers: 482, 493 and our material needs: 487 as prayer for the things we ought to desire in the order we ought to desire them: 482, 493 as prayer of the Church: 485 as prayer to show forth the victory already won by Christ over the “ruler of the world,” Satan: 489, 494 as requesting the grace of vigilance and final perseverance: 488 Lord’s Day: 518 Living wills: 399 Lord

so as to fulfill the work of salvation in the world: 486 Lord’s Supper: see Eucharist, Holy Love: 343

Christ’s command to love as door to whole supernatural order: 286 Christ’s love: 7, 85, 129 Baptism of Desire and: 192 Christ, the Incarnation, as loving with a human heart: 18, 86 uniting personal love and the love of Christ in marriage: 286 uniting the Church, the Body of Christ: 85, ass witnessing to the love of Jesus and the truths of the faith: 17 for enemies: 321 filial: 375, 377, 380, 513 as fruit of the Holy Spirit (see Fruits of the Holy Spirit) God as source of all: 67 God’s love: 9, 14, 39, 62-63, 78, 86, 345 as cause for creation: 53 creation as a witness to: 53, 56-57 experienced by human beings through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit: 19 and friendship for us: 13, 36 God as wanting to relate to us: 119 “God is love”: 51, 61 as ground of our hope: 495 for Israel: 51 justification as the most excellent work of: 336 our salvation as coming from: 57 poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit: 286 power of God’s love to transform society: 500 revealed in Jesus Christ, in the Incarnation (see Incarnation)