Raw reference: nos. 65-67, 73, 101-104, 134, 423
CCC 65
"In many and various ways God
"In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son." [Heb 1:1-2] Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. St. John of the Cross, among others, commented strikingly on Hebrews 1:1-2:
CCC 66
"The Christian economy,
"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." [DV 4; cf. I Tim 6:14; Titus 2:13] Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.
CCC 67
Throughout the ages, there
Throughout the ages, there have been so-called "private" revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.
CCC 73
God has revealed himself
God has revealed himself fully by sending his own Son, in whom he has established his covenant for ever. the Son is his Father's definitive Word; so there will be no further Revelation after him.
CCC 101
In order to reveal himself to
In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when he took on himself the flesh of human weakness, became like men." [DV 13.]
CCC 102
Through all the words of
Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely: [Cf. Heb 1:1-3]
CCC 103
For this reason, the Church
For this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body. [Cf. DV 21.]
CCC 104
In Sacred Scripture, the
In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God". [Th 2:13; cf. DV 24.] "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them." [DV 21.]
CCC 134
"All Sacred Scripture is but
"All Sacred Scripture is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ" (Hugh of St. Victor, De arca Noe 2, 8: PL 176, 642).
CCC 423
We believe and confess that
We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the eternal Son of God made man. He 'came from God', [Jn 13:3.] 'descended from heaven', [Jn 3:13; 6:33.] and 'came in the flesh'. [1 Jn 4:2.] For 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. . . and from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace.' [Jn 1:14,16.]