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umm,the nicely summarized explanation of the cathecism is anything but.
The complexity of the system is apparent to those who do not subscribe.
The New Testament is remarkably succinct. And when you net out Jesus' words, amazingly brief.
I think that where the Gospel is preached those who have ears to hear let them hear summarizes the whole thing nicely as to the autonomously, synodical prefecture of the perspicuousness of the magesterium of the index cards....
a bureaucracy develops its own language- and this had been on display these past 700 or so posts.
I believe it says " let your yes be yes and your no be no"
not if, but, maybe, then again, with the exception of, in case of emergency.....

The Gospels are truly wonderful. Are you quoting the same Gospels where Jesus institutes the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Holy Eucharist?

Matthew 16: 19
I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Matthew 26:

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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, "Take and eat; this is my body."
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Then he took a cup, gave thanks, 16 and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you,
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for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.

If Jesus means, as He truly does, that His yes is YES, then His "is" is IS.

The connectivity of Catechism is complete from beginning and has no end, but in Paradise with Jesus. The Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist is Absolute and undeniable...not because mere mortals say so, but because HE SAYS SO.

And when you net out Jesus' words, amazingly brief.

Jesus Christ spoke Ancient Aramaic, the language in which the disciples and apostles preached the Gospel and the scribes recorded the Scriptures. It was then translated into Greek. From the Greek, those words were then translated into the vernacular of contemporary societies. As a polyglot, I can assure you that things get lost in translation.