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Clear all filtersBaltimore Catechism · Lesson 16, question 186
The twelve fruits of the Holy Ghost are Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Benignity, Goodness, Long-suffering, Mildness, Faith, Modesty, Continency, and Chastity.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 18, question 198
When I say that our sorrow should be supernatural, I mean that it should be prompted by the grace of God, and excited by motives which spring from faith, and not by merely natural motives.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 23, question 256
To receive plentifully the graces of Holy Communion it is not enough to be free from mortal sin, but we should be free from all affection to venial sin, and should make acts of faith, hope, and love.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 25, question 276
We should receive the Sacrament of Extreme Unction in the state of grace, and with lively faith and resignation to the will of God.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 26, question 289
The Church forbids the marriage of Catholics with persons who have a different religion or no religion at all, because such marriages generally lead to indifference, loss of faith, and to the neglect of the religious education of the children.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 27, question 297
The sign of the Cross is a profession of faith in the chief mysteries of our religion because it expresses the mysteries of the Unity and Trinity of God and of the Incarnation and death of our Lord.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 28, question 308
The prayers most recommended to us are the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, the Apostles' Creed, the Confiteor, and the Acts of Faith, Hope, Love, and Contrition.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 317
We adore God by faith, hope, and charity, by prayer and sacrifice.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 320
Sins against faith, hope, and charity are also sins against the first Commandment.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 321
A person sins against faith: 1st, by not trying to know what God has taught; 2d, by refusing to believe all that God has taught; 3d, by neglecting to profess his belief in what God has taught.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 325
They who fail to profess their faith in the true Church in which they believe cannot expect to be saved while in that state, for Christ has said: "Whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven."Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 326
We are obliged to make open profession of our faith as often as God's honor, our neighbor's spiritual good, or our own requires it. "Whosoever," says Christ, "shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven."Read the source passage →
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