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1721 God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise. Beatitude makes us "partakers of the divine nature" and of eternal life. ²¹ With beatitude, man enters into the glory of Christ ²² and into the joy of the Trinitarian life.

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PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

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SECTION ONE: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT

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CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

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ARTICLE 2: OUR VOCATION TO BEATITUDE

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21 2 Pet 1:4; cf. Jn 17:3.

22 Cf. Rom 8:18.

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