Catechism of the Catholic Church

516 Christ's whole earthly life - his words and deeds, his silences and sufferings, indeed his manner of being and speaking - is Revelation of the Father. Jesus can say: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father", and the Father can say: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" ¹⁷⁷ Because our Lord became man in order to do his Father's will, even the least characteristics of his mysteries manifest "God's love. . . among us". ¹⁷⁸

517 Christ's whole life is a mystery of redemption. Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross, ¹⁷⁹ but this mystery is at work throughout Christ's entire life: -already in his Incarnation through which by becoming poor he enriches us with his poverty; ¹⁸⁰ - in his hidden life which by his submission atones for our disobedience; ¹⁸¹ - in his word which purifies its hearers; ¹⁸²- in his healings and exorcisms by which "he took our infirmities and bore our diseases"; ¹⁸³ - and in his Resurrection by which he justifies us. ¹⁸⁴

518 Christ's whole life is a mystery of recapitulation. All Jesus did, said and suffered had for its aim restoring fallen man to his original vocation:

When Christ became incarnate and was made man, he recapitulated in himself the long history of mankind and procured for us a "short cut" to salvation, so that what we had lost in Adam, that is, being in the image and likeness of God, we might recover in Christ Jesus. ¹⁸⁵ For this reason Christ experienced all the stages of life, thereby giving communion with God to all men. ¹⁸⁶