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Q273The Ninth Article: The Church
The name “Orthodox Church” is commonly used for the worldwide communion of the catholic Churches which hold the Orthodox faith and are in communion with one another. This newer expression does not appear in…
Read the answer →Q256The Ninth Article: The Church
The Church is precisely the means by which God, as a loving Father, gives us the highest possible assurance that we are “beloved in Christ” (Rom 1:7; Eph 1:6), “that you may know that…
Read the answer →Q545On the Fourth Commandment
On Wednesday, in memory of the betrayal of our Lord Jesus Christ to suffering; and on Friday, in memory of his actual suffering and death. This weekly discipline is apostolic, being already enjoined in…
Read the answer →Q054The Books of the Bible
‘Apocalypse’ is from a Greek word that literally means ‘unveiling’, ‘drawing back the curtain.’ This recalls the Temple, where a curtain (veil) separated the holy place from the Holy of Holies, the very presence…
Read the answer →Q486The Law of God and the Commandments
The Apostle Paul describes conscience when speaking of pagans who never received the Law of Moses: When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires… they show that what…
Read the answer →Q346Holy Communion: The Eucharist
At the Great Entrance, the holy gifts are transferred from the table of oblation to the altar. This recalls Jesus Christ going voluntarily to suffer, as a victim to the slaughter, while more than…
Read the answer →Q588On the Seventh Commandment
Spiritual adultery is often mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, because we, as God’s people, are as a bride to the Lord (Isa 62:5; Eph 5:22–33; see Q378). Every act of unfaithfulness to the Lord…
Read the answer →Q205The Fourth Article: The Crucifixion
The Lord Jesus Christ suffered and died not in his divinity, which is impassible, but in his humanity, and not because he could not avoid it, but because it was his own will and…
Read the answer →Q567On the Fifth Commandment
“Give therefore to everyone as you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; revenues to whom revenues are due; respect to whom respect is due; honor to whom honor is due” (Rom 13:7). The…
Read the answer →Q011On Divine Revelation
Divine revelation is God’s own self-disclosure to the human race: all that God has progressively made known of himself, of his will, and of his saving purpose, so that we might believe in him…
Read the answer →Q283The Tenth Article: The Mysteries
Baptism, the act by which a person is immersed in water in the name of the Holy Trinity and thereby joined to Christ, is the expression of one’s faith and the means of entrance…
Read the answer →Q485The Law of God and the Commandments
Moses spoke thus to God’s people: “Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: therefore, choose life,…
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