![]() ![]() Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is, as Pope John Paul II calls it, "a special gift." lessĪugustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Here is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. ![]() It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. This book is the catechism (the word means "instruction") that will serve as the standarad for all future catechisms. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholic throughout the world believe in common. ![]()
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