References
References
Unless otherwise indicated, Bible quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
References to the Catechism of the Catholic Church are marked “CCC” and followed by the paragraph number.
2 Mark 8:36.
4 Romans 10:2.
5 Romans 10:1.
7 2 Peter 1:21.
8 Hebrews 1:2.
9 Jude 1:3. The Roman Catholic Church also teaches that God’s message has been given to us in full. “The Christian dispensation, therefore, as the new and definitive covenant, will never pass away and we now await no further new public revelation before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum, no. 4).
10 2 Timothy 3:16.
11 John 17:17.
12 Negatively: Mark 7:9; Colossians 2:8; 1 Peter 1:18; positively: 1 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:6.
13 John 20:30-31.
14 See Mark 7:6-13.
15 Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum, no. 9.
16 Exodus 20:4-6.
17 Mark 7:9.
18 Matthew 7:15.
19 Matthew 15:14.
20 See Deuteronomy 13:1-4; Isaiah 8:20; Proverbs 30:5-6.
21 Acts 17:11.
23 Psalms 119:130.
24 Luke 24:45.
25 See Luke 10:25-26.
26 2 Timothy 3:15.
27 Colossians 2:6-7.
28 Ephesians 2:20.
30 Ephesians 5:23.
31 Colossians 1:18.
32 CCC 881, 882.
33 Matthew 16:13-19.
34 1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 2:8.
35 Psalms 18:31.
36 Augustine, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, 26. www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-06/ecf3-26.htm 37 First Vatican Council, session 4, chapter 3.
38 See Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18.
39 Luke 22:24.
40 Compare Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church, Ad Gentes, no.5., with 1 Peter 5:4.
41 See Acts 3:1-10.
42 “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Pope Boniface VIII, Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302).
43 See Second Vatican Council, Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Rredintegratio, no. 3.
44 Acts 4:12.
45 See John 20:30-31.
46 Psalms 62:1-2.
47 Genesis 2:16-17.
48 Romans 5:18-19.
49 Genesis 6:5.
50 Jeremiah 17:9.
51 Romans 6:23.
52 John 19:11; Matthew 10:15. Luke 12:47-48.
53 Matthew 5:21-22; Matthew 5:27-28.
54 Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:4.
55 Acts 17:31; Romans 14:10-12.
56 Matthew 19:16.
57 Matthew 19:17-19.
58 Romans 3:10-12.
59 Matthew 19:21.
60 Mark 2:17.
61 See Galatians 3:10-12.
62 Romans 3:19-20.
63 Galatians 3:24.
64 Galatians 1:6-9.
65 Romans 5:18.
66 Romans 3:23.
67 Romans 5:1.
68 CCC 1992.
69 Romans 4:4-5.
70 Titus 3:5.
71 Romans 4:7-8.
72 Romans 4:6.
73 Romans 3:24.
74 Romans 3:26.
75 Romans 5:19.
76 Jeremiah 23:6.
78 Php 3:8-9.
79 Romans 8:1.
80 Luke 18:9-14.
81 Council of Trent, session 6, Canons Concerning Justification, canon 10.
82 Romans 3:28.
83 Council of Trent, session 6, Decree Concerning Justification, chapter 8.
84 Council of Trent, session 6, Canons Concerning Justification, canon 24.
85 Romans 1:16-17.
86 Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16.
87 See CCC 628, 1239, 1262.
88 See Acts 2:38; Acts 2:41; Acts 8:12-13; Acts 8:36-37; Acts 10:47-48; Acts 16:14-15; Acts 16:32-34; Acts 18:8; Acts 19:4-5; Acts 22:16.
89 Romans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12 and Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16.
90 See CCC 1131, 1214.
91 Council of Trent, session 6, chapter 7: “The causes of this justification are: ... the instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism, which is the sacrament of faith, without which no man was ever justified finally...”
92 CCC 1277, 1213.
93 Catechism of Trent, The Sacrament of Baptism.
94 CCC 1257.
95 John 3:8; John 1:12-13.
96 Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38, 1 Peter 3:21; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12. See www.justforcatholics.org/a114.htm for further discussion.
97 Luke 7:50.
98 Galatians 3:6-9.
99 Romans 4:1-5.
100 Romans 9-11.
101 Acts 15:11.
102 Acts 15:7-9.
103 Acts 10:47.
104 Acts 10:43.
105 Psalms 51:4.
106 Psalms 51:1.
107 Psalms 32:5.
108 Council of Trent, session 14, The Most Holy Sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction, chapter 6.
109 CCC 1465.
110 James 4:12.
111 1 Kings 8:39.
112 Mark 2:5-11.
113 John 20:21-23.
114 Luke 24:46-47.
115 Acts 10:43.
116 Acts 13:38.
117 1 John 2:12.
118 CCC 1447.
119 Isaiah 45:22.
120 1 John 2:1.
121 1 John 1:9.
122 Matthew 6:9-13.
123 See the apocryphal book, 2Ma 12:38-45.
124 See Revelation 21:27.
125 CCC 1459.
126 CCC 1414.
127 CCC 1030, 1031.
128 Luke 15:11-32.
129 Isaiah 53:5-6.
130 Colossians 2:13-14.
131 Isaiah 43:25.
132 1 Corinthians 3:9-14. Other passages include Matthew 5:25-26; Matthew 12:32; Revelation 21:27 and 2Ma 12:38-45, the latter is an apocryphal book.
133 1 Corinthians 6:11.
134 1 John 1:7.
135 Isaiah 1:18.
136 Revelation 1:5-6.
137 Council of Trent, Session 6, Canons Concerning Justification, canon 30.
138 Luke 23:42-43.
139 Hebrews 1:3.
140 Leviticus 17:11.
141 Hebrews 9:22.
142 Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 10:4.
143 Mark 10:45.
144 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18.
145 Galatians 3:7-14.
146 Matthew 27:46.
147 Matthew 25:41.
148 Revelation 5:9.
149 John 6:51.
150 John 6:53-54.
151 John 6:52.
152 See John 8:12; John 10:9; John 10:11; John 15:1.
153 John 6:35; John 6:40; John 6:47.
154 John 6:29.
155 Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 10:10; Hebrews 10:14.
156 CCC 1414.
157 CCC 1367.
158 Revelation 1:18. The Catholic Church does not teach that Christ actually dies during the Sacrifice of the Mass. “On the cross He completely offered Himself and all His sufferings to God, and the immolation of the victim was brought about by the bloody death, which He underwent of His free will. But on the altar, by reason of the glorified state of His human nature, "death shall have no more dominion over Him," and so the shedding of His blood is impossible…” (Pope Pius XII, Encyclical, Mediator Dei, no. 70).
159 Hebrews 9:22.
160 CCC 1366; 1323.
161 Hebrews 9:28.
162 Hebrews 10:11-12.
163 Hebrews 10:15-18.
164 Matthew 28:20.
165 Matthew 26:11.
166 Revelation 22:20.
168 1 Corinthians 11:27.
169 CCC 1374, 1376.
170 See 2 Samuel 23:13-17.
171 Matthew 26:29.
172 1 Corinthians 11:26.
173 Matthew 26:26-27.
174 Luke 24:39.
175 Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 4:14.
176 Hebrews 9:24.
177 Hebrews 9:12.
178 See Hebrews 10:19-22.
179 CCC 1337.
180 Council of Trent, session 22, Canons On The Sacrifice Of The Mass, canon 2.
181 See Matthew 8:4, etc.; Acts 14:13; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:10; 1 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 5:6, etc.; Hebrews 7:1.
182 1 Peter 2:5.
183 See Hebrews 10:19; Hebrews 4:16.
184 Revelation 1:5-6.
185 Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:15-16.
186 Hebrews 7:24; Hebrews 9:24; Hebrews 7:26-27.
187 Hebrews 7:25.
188 Galatians 4:4.
189 Luke 1:46-48.
190 The following are the main references to Mary in the whole New Testament: Matthew 1, 2; Matthew 12:46-50; Matthew 13:55-56; Mark 3:31-35; Mark 6:3-4; Luke 1, 2; Luke 8:19-21; John 2:1-12; John 6:42; John 19:25-27; Acts 1:14; Galatians 4:4.
191 Matthew 1:20-21.
192 Matthew 1:25.
193 CCC 721.
194 “If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony; let him be anathema” (Council of Trent, session 24, Canons On The Sacrament Of Matrimony, canon 10).
195 For example, Augustine writes, “Who, then, denies that it [intercourse between married couple} is a sin?” (Augustine, Enchiridion, chapter 21, www.ccel.org/a/augustine/enchiridion/enchiridion.html).
196 Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 78:6.
197 Hebrews 13:4; See Ephesians 5:31-32.
198 John 2:4 (KJV).
199 John 19:25-27.
200 See Matthew 12:46-50.
201 Pope Pius IX, Encyclical, Ineffabilis Deus.
202 CCC 491, 492: “Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" [Luke 1:28] through God… The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love" [Ephesians 1:3-4].”
203 The term translated “full of grace” in Luke 1:28 can be simply translated “favoured one” (as in the Catholic American Standard Bible) or “highly favoured” (as in the King James Bible). In Ephesians 1:6, it is translated “graced us” or “made us accepted.”
204 Romans 5:12.
205 Romans 3:10-23.
206 Luke 1:46-47.
207 See Ephesians 1:7.
208 CCC 618.
209 Pope Pius X, Encyclical, Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum, no. 12.
210 Luke 2:35.
211 See Romans 6:10; 1 Peter 3:18.
212 See 1 Peter 2:21-24.
213 Romans 5:10; Hebrews 9:15; Ephesians 1:7; Revelation 1:5; Mark 10:45.
214 Pope Benedict XV, Apostolic Letter, Inter Sodalicia; Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical, Iucunda Semper Expectatione, no. 3.
215 Genesis 3:15.
216 Luke 11:27-28.
217 See Ephesians 1:3-14.
218 Augustine, Mary, A Disciple of Christ, Sermon 72/A, 7. http://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit 20001208_agostino_en.html 219 1 Timothy 2:5-6.
220 CCC 969.
221 Pope Pius XI, Encyclical, Caritate Christi Compulsi, no. 31.
222 The Prayer of Confidence in Mary, by St Alphonsus (The Glories of Mary, Catholic Book Publishing Co., NY 1981, p 182.) is a typical prayer to Mary. “Most holy, Immaculate Virgin and my Mother Mary! To you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the Advocate, the Hope, and the Refuge of sinners, I have recourse today, I who am the most miserable of all. I render you my most humble homage, O great Queen, and I thank you for all the graces you have conferred on me until now, especially for having delivered me from hell, which I have so often deserved. I love you, O most amiable Lady; and for the love which I bear you, I promise to serve you always and to do all in my power to make others love you also. I place in you all my hopes; I confide my salvation to your care. Accept me for your servant and receive me under your mantle, O Mother of Mercy. And since you are so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations; or rather, obtain to me the strength to triumph over them until death. Of you I ask a perfect love for Jesus Christ. Through you I hope to die a good death. O my Mother, by the love which you bear to God, I beseech you to help me at all times, but especially at the last moment of my life. Leave me not, I beseech you, until you see me safe in heaven, blessing you and singing your mercies for all eternity. Amen. So I hope. So may it be.”
223 Isaiah 8:19.
224 1 Kings 8:39.
225 CCC 2677.
226 Psalms 9:10; Psalms 2:12; Acts 7:59; John 10:28.
227 Luke 1:50.
228 John 3:16.
229 Mark 10:14.
230 John 6:37; Matthew 11:28.
231 See John 10:9; Revelation 22:16; Psalms 46:1; 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.
232 Php 2:9-11.
233 Php 1:21.
234 Acts 4:12.
235 Romans 10:13.
236 Luke 1:46-47.
237 CCC 2025.
238 Ephesians 2:8-10.
239 Acts 16:31; Galatians 2:16.
240 See Php 3:1-11.
241 Romans 4:4.
242 CCC 2027.
243 Romans 11:6.
244 Jonah 2:9.
245 Mark 10:27.
246 Ephesians 1:7.
247 Romans 3:24.
248 James 2:14.
249 See Hebrews 8:10-12.
250 See 1 Corinthians 1:31.
251 Revelation 5:9.
252 Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, (1517).
253 Galatians 1:8.
254 John 14:6.