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saving gifts of Christ encountered
in: xx
of St. John Chrysostom: 50, 61
Sundays and the celebration of:
172-73, 175, 178
use of signs, symbols, and rituals:
171-72, 175, 177
Living wills:
399
Lord
invoking the name of the Lord: 256
the title: 85
see also God; Jesus Christ
Lord’s Day:
518
see also Sunday
The Lord’s Prayer:
xxii, 481-95,
518
as addressed to God the Father:
484-85
as asking God to safeguard us from
the path of sin: 488
as begging God’s mercy for our
offenses: 484, 488
to be prayed with confidence that
God will hear and answer:
467, 481
and coming of the Kingdom:
486, 494
context in which it is to be prayed
as given by Jesus: 481-83
and the Eucharist: 483, 493
as given by Jesus to his disciples:
467, 482
as imploring the Spirit of
discernment and strength: 488
as integral part of sacramental
liturgies: 483, 493
as most perfect of prayers: 482, 493
and our material needs: 487
as prayer for the things we ought to
desire in the order we ought to
desire them: 482, 493
as prayer of the Church: 485
as prayer to show forth the victory
already won by Christ over the
“ruler of the world,” Satan:
489, 494
as requesting the grace of vigilance
and final perseverance: 488
seven petitions of: 485-89
as summary of the whole
Gospel: 490
as uniting our will to that of Jesus
so as to fulfill the work of
salvation in the world: 486
Lord’s Supper:
see Eucharist, Holy
Love:
343
Christ’s command to love as door
to whole supernatural order: 286
Christ’s love: 7, 85, 129
Baptism of Desire and: 192
Christ, the Incarnation, as loving
with a human heart: 18, 86
uniting personal love and the
love of Christ in marriage: 286
uniting the Church, the Body of
Christ: 85, ass
witnessing to the love of Jesus
and the truths of the faith: 17
for enemies: 321
filial: 375, 377, 380,
513
as fruit of the Holy Spirit (see Fruits
of the Holy Spirit)
God as source of all: 67
God’s love: 9, 14, 39, 62-63, 78,
86, 345
as cause for creation: 53
creation as a witness to: 53, 56-57
experienced by human beings
through Jesus Christ and the
Holy Spirit: 19
and friendship for us: 13, 36
God as wanting to relate to
us: 119
“God is love”: 51, 61
as ground of our hope: 495
for Israel: 51
justification as the most excellent
work of: 336
our salvation as coming from: 57
poured into our hearts by the
Holy Spirit: 286
power of God’s love to transform
society: 500
revealed in Jesus Christ, in the
Incarnation (see Incarnation)