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PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
- SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
  - CHAPTER FOUR OTHER LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS
    - Article 2 CHRISTIAN FUNERALS

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Article 2

CHRISTIAN FUNERALS

1680 All the sacraments, and principally those of Christian initiation, have as their goal the last Passover of the child of God which, through death, leads him into the life of the Kingdom. Then what he confessed in faith and hope will be fulfilled: "I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come."¹⁸²

182 Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.

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