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Perfect love, as Christian perfection is often called, is the result of, and can only be maintained by, complete dependence on Jesus Christ. It is given either gradually or at one moment... [65] Candidates for ordination are asked the following question, "Do you expect to be made perfect in love in this life?"
The perfection of Christ is a principle in Christology which asserts that Christ's human attributes exemplified perfection in every possible sense. Another perspective [citation needed] characterizes Christ's perfection as purely spiritual and moral, while his humanistic traits are subject to flaw, potential, and improvement as part of the current human condition.
Barclay argues that the previous verses made clear that man's function is to love, and anyone who does that absolutely can be considered perfect. [7] Similarly, John Gill notes that "this perfection is to be restrained to the subject Christ is upon, love to men, and not to be referred to any, or every other thing". [ 8 ]
The perfection of the blessed also demands that the body be restored to the soul as something to be made perfect by it. Since blessedness consists in operatio, it is made more perfect in that the soul has a definite operatio with the body, although the peculiar act of blessedness (in other words, the vision of God) has nothing to do with the body.
Christ after his Resurrection, with the ostentatio vulnerum, showing his wounds, Austria, c. 1500. The five wounds comprised 1) the nail hole in his right hand, 2) the nail hole in his left hand, 3) the nail hole in his right foot, 4) the nail hole in his left foot, 5) the wound to his torso from the piercing of the spear.
This transformation is made possible by accessing the merit of Christ, made available in the atonement, through faith and the sacraments. [28] The Catholic Church teaches that "faith without works is dead" [ 29 ] [ 30 ] and that works perfect faith.
Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same Perfect in Godhead, the Self-same Perfect in Manhood; truly God and truly Man; the Self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same co-essential with us ...
Matthew 6:10 is the tenth verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.This verse is the second one of the Lord's Prayer, one of the best known parts of the entire New Testament.