We must continue to accomplish in ourselves the stages of Jesus’ life and his mysteries and often to beg him to perfect and realize them in us and in his whole Church.… For it is the plan of the Son of God to make us and the whole Church partake in his mysteries and to extend them to and continue them in us and in his whole Church (as quoted in Catechism, no. 521). We are powerless to live the life of Christ without God’s grace. That is why the Catechism teaches us about the sacraments and the liturgy
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