Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Wednesday, Third Week of Lent: "that you may live"

whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven
--Mt 5:17-19

It is in the Church, in communion with all the baptized, that the Christian fulfills his vocation. From the Church he receives the Word of God containing the teachings of "the law of Christ." From the Church he receives the grace of the sacraments that sustains him on the "way." From the Church he learns the example of holiness and recognizes its model and source in the all-holy Virgin Mary; he discerns it in the authentic witness of those who live it; he discovers it in the spiritual tradition and long history of the saints who have gone before him and whom the liturgy celebrates in the rhythms of the sanctoral cycle.
-- CCC 2030

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