APPENDIX.
CONCORDANCE
OR
SCRIPTURE AIDS TO THE CATECHISM.
INTRODUCTION.
THE END OF MAN.
The end of man is to know, love and serve God here on earth in order to obtain everlasting life and happiness with God in heaven hereafter. This end is supernatural. Hence man must know, love and serve God not only according to natural reason, but also according to supernatural Revelation. He must have faith , hope and charity , and must be in a state of sanctifying grace. By wilfully refusing to know, love and serve God, i. e. by grievous sin, man loses his last end. All this is well illustrated in the chapters on the Creation of Man 13 — 28. See also David’s words to Solomon 248, and St. Paul’s to the Athenians 794. To serve God is the highest honour 329. Examples: The three youths in the furnace; Daniel; the Machabees; all the Martyrs.
Life a pilgrimage 117; a journey to the Promised Land 190; towards home 328.
The things of this world cannot give happiness 261. “What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world” 588. “One thing is needful” 560. Sin is the cause of misery. Examples: Adam and Eve; the people at the time of the Flood; the Israelites in the desert; the prodigal Son; Judas.
Man must work for his salvation 621 624. Parable of the labourers in the vineyard 594; of the talents 624.
FIRST PART.
§ 1. THE NATURE OF FAITH.
Faith is a free act of our mind and will by which we believe all that God has ever revealed through His special messengers, the Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ and the Apostles, and proposes to our belief by
