Catechism Paragraph 2015
Part 3:
LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle.[68] Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:
He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows.[69]
š Footnotes
[68]
Cf. 2 Tim 4.
[69]
St. Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. in Cant. 8: PG 44, 941C.