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Saturday 19 July 2014

A Few Choice Statements from Vatican I-Part Two



Again, numbers are not as in original text found in same source as post below....

  1. And so faith in itself,
    • even though it may not work through charity,
    • is a gift of God,
    • and its operation is a work belonging to the order of salvation,
      • in that a person yields true obedience to God himself when he accepts and collaborates with his grace which he could have rejected.
  2. Wherefore, by divine and catholic faith all those things are to be believed
    • which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition,
    • and which are proposed by the church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed,
    • whether by her solemn judgment
    • or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.
  3. Since, then, without faith it is impossible to please God [21] and reach the fellowship of his sons and daughters, it follows that
    • no one can ever achieve justification without it,
    • neither can anyone attain eternal life unless he or she perseveres in it to the end.
  4. So that we could fulfil our duty of embracing the true faith and of persevering unwaveringly in it, God, through his only begotten Son,
    • founded the church,
    • and he endowed his institution with clear notes to the end that she might be recognised by all as the guardian and teacher of the revealed word.
  5. To the catholic church alone belong all those things, so many and so marvellous, which have been divinely ordained to make for the manifest credibility of the christian faith.
  6. What is more,
    • the church herself
        by reason of
        • her astonishing propagation,
        • her outstanding holiness and
        • her inexhaustible fertility in every kind of goodness, by
        • her catholic unity and
        • her unconquerable stability,
    • is a kind of great and perpetual motive of credibility and an incontrovertible evidence of her own divine mission.