Endnotes

1. See Vatican Council II, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad gentes, no. 14.
2. See Colossians 1:13; Romans 8:15, Galations 4:5. See also Council of Trent, sess. 6, Decre. de iustificatione, cap. 4: Denz.-Schon. 1524.
3. See 1 John 3:1.
4. See Vatican Council II, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad gentes, no. 36.
5. See John 6:55.
6. See Augustine, De citivate Dei 10, 6: PL 41, 284. Vatican Council II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium, no. 11; Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum Ordinis, no. 2.
7. See Vatican Council II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium, no. 28.
8. See ibid., no. 31.
9. See John 3:5.
10. Matthew 28:19.
11. See Ephesians 2:22.
12. See 1 Peter 2:9.
13. See Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio, no. 22.
14. See Ephesians 5:26.
15. See 2 Peter 1:4.
16. See Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:5.
17. See Titus 3:5.
18. See Romans 6:4-5.
19. See Ephesians 2:5-6.
20. See Codex Iuris Canonici, can. 873 and 874, §§1 and 2.
21. See Vatican Council II, Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, art. 32; Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et spes, no. 29.
22. See Vatican Council II, Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops Christus Dominus, no. 15.
23. See Vatican Council II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium, no. 26.
24. See Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, nos. 375-399; Rite of Baptism for Children, nos. 157-164.