Catechism of the Catholic Church

764 Index charity and sacraments Baptism and, 1269, 1273, 1997, 2156, 2165 catechumens and, 1248‑49 Eucharist as the sacrament of, 1323, 1394‑95, 1416 marriage and, 1570, 1654 sacrament of Reconciliation and, 1434, 1466 sacramental life and growth in, 1134 sacraments of initiation and advancement in, 1212 charity as Christian moral life charisms and, 800, 2003 chastity and, 2346 as the form of the virtues, 826, 1827, 1841, 1844 freedom and, 1740 fruit of, 1825, 1829 as the goal of our actions, 1829 peace as the fruit of, 2304 as the perfection of Christian life, 1844, 1973 prayer and, 2098, 2662, 2806 virtue of religion and, 2095 charity as witness and service among the members of the Mystical Body, 791 the Church as the community of, 771, 815, 834 deacons and the service of, 1570, 1588, 1596 family as the school of Christian, 1657, 1666, 2204‑05 love of country and the order of, 2239 Mary as the model of, 967‑68 material goods and the order of, 2401, 2439, 2451, 2459, 2545 parish as a place of, 2179 religious life and, 915‑16, 926 renunciation of violent action and the witness of, 2306 saints as a model of, 2156, 2165 secular institutes and, 928 as a social commandment, 1889 society of apostolic life and, 930 solidarity and, 1939, 1942 as the soul of the apostolate, 864 towards neighbor, 1789, 1878, 1931‑32, 2447, 2462 theological virtues of charity, 1813, 1822, 1826, 1841, 1844 faith and, 162, 1794, 1814, 2093 and the freedom of the children of God, 1828 grace of Christ as the source of, 2011 hope and, 1818, 2090 as love of God and neighbor, 1822, 1840, 1844, 2055, 2086, 2093 as loving according to Christ’s love, 1823, 1825 new Law and, 1965‑66, 1968, 1972‑74 perseverance in, 1824 as the soul of holiness, 826 as the source of merits, 2011, 2026 Chastity and Baptism, 2345, 2348, 2355 call to, 2337, 2348, 2394 and charity, 2346 conjugal chastity and marriage, 2365, 2368 consecrated life and, 915, 944 following Christ and, 2053 friendship and, 2347 Holy Spirit at the origin of the virtue of, 1832, 2345 and homosexuality, 2357‑59 increase in, 2343 meaning of, 2395 offenses against, 2351‑56, 2396 pure hearts and, 2518, 2520, 2532 stages of growth in, 2339, 2341, 2344, 2346, 2395 and states of life, 2348‑50 temperance, the virtue that directs, 2341 of those engaged to marry, 1632, 2350 Children becoming a child, 526, 2517, 2785, 2837 confession of, 1457 divorce of parents and harm to, 2385 duties of, 2197, 2199, 2200, 2214‑20 duties of parents toward their, 2221‑31 educating children in the faith, 5, 2688 educating children in modesty, 2524 education of the conscience, 1784 as an end of marriage and of conjugal life, 1652, 2201 first Holy Communion of, 1244 freedom to bear, 2211 as the fruit of conjugal love, 2366