What is justification?

[mo7]

I’ve recently heard a homily on justification. I can’t wrap my brain around what it is and why it’s important. Could someone pass along some link that explains it simply to me? Thanks so much.

 

[dje101]

Here’s an article from New Advent on Justification.

 

[Vico]

I’ve recently heard a homily on justification. I can’t wrap my brain around what it is and why it’s important. Could someone pass along some link that explains it simply to me? Thanks so much.

Council of TrentJustification is the change from the condition in which a person is born as a child of the first Adam into a state of grace and adoption among the children of God through the Second Adam, Jesus Christ our Savior

Denzinger 1524

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church422. What is justification?
1987-1995
2017-2020
Justification is the most excellent work of God’s love. It is the merciful and freely-given act of God which takes away our sins and makes us just and holy in our whole being. It is brought about by means of the grace of the Holy Spirit which has been merited for us by the passion of Christ and is given to us in Baptism. Justification is the beginning of the free response of man, that is, faith in Christ and of cooperation with the grace of the Holy Spirit.

427. What are the goods that we can merit?
2010-2011
2027
Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others the graces needed for our sanctification and for the attainment of eternal life. Even temporal goods, suitable for us, can be merited in accordance with the plan of God. No one, however, can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion and justification.

 

[dje101]

An article by Jimmy Akin titled “Justification in Catholic Teaching”