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conquering: 456
greed, as companion of: 450, 453,
455-56
pride and: 456
sadness at the sight of another’s
prosperity: 450, 455
as subduing love: 455
the Tenth Commandment: 449, 456
see also Capital Sins; Jealousy
Eparchy:
130
Epiclesis (Invocation):
219, 220,
511
see also Invocation
Episcopacy:
511
see also Bishops
Episcopal College:
133, 138, 265-66,
507
authority and: 133, 265-66,
507
Bishop of Rome and: 133, 266
bishops and: 133, 265-66
the Church and: 133
infallibility of: 133
teaching office of (see Magisterium)
Equality
among human beings: 327
and differences between men and
women: 68, 73, 279, 404, 411
of the Divine Persons: 104
God as without equal: 51, 61
of Scripture and Tradition: 30
Eremitical life:
see Evangelical counsels
Error
conscience and: 314-15, 320
history of the Church regarding: 22
using the “medicine of mercy”
for: 22
see also Heresy; Schism; Sin
Eschatology:
see Death; Eternal life;
Heaven; Hell; Judgment; Paradise
Eternal death:
see Hell
Eternal life:
123, 159, 162, 307-8, 338,
343, 401
Anointing of the Sick as preparation
for: 255, 258
Baptism and faith as granting us a
share in: 38
everyone as called to holiness
and: xvii
full understanding to come only
in: 62
God as sending His only Son so we
might have: 86
grace and: 328-29
redemption and:
525
Sacraments of the New Law offered
so all might have: 195
a saint as one who has been
granted:
527
vocation and:
531
see also Heaven; Resurrection of
the body
Eternity:
4, 13, 22, 43, 82, 143, 162
our eternal destiny: 151-62
Sunday as signifying: 365
see also Eternal life; Kingdom
of God
Ethics:
see
specific topics,
e.g.,
Education; Moral life
“Ethnic cleansing”:
396
Eucharist, Holy; Communion;
celebration of Mass:
213-32,
511
as an act of thanksgiving: 219, 228,
371, 468
as center of the Church’s
contemplation: 487
changing of bread and wine into
the Body and Blood of the Lord:
103, 171, 215-20, 222-23, 226-
29, 493
as containing the whole treasure of
the Church: 224, 228
effects of the Eucharist: 226
cleanses and separates us from
sin: 225-26
communicates the mystery of the
Holy Trinity: 119
establishes the community of
believers: 226
forms recipients more closely to
Christ: 224-25
growth in Christian life:
226-27, 229
makes present the Paschal
Mystery: 224
saving grace of dying and rising
Christ communicated to us: 215
as spiritual food: 223