Revelation 21:9 (WEB)
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
Catechism · 5
"I Believe in Life Everlasting"
“Those who are united with Christ will form the community of the redeemed, "the holy city" of God, "the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 21:2, 9.
Celebrating the Church's Liturgy
“…one hundred and forty-four thousand), especially the martyrs "slain for the word of God," and the all-holy Mother of God (the Woman), the Bride of the Lamb,” — Catechism footnote: Rev 6:9-11; Rev 21:9; cf. 12.
Sacred Scripture
The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.
The Church in God's Plan
“It is she whom Christ 'loved and for whom he delivered himself up that he might sanctify her.' It is she whom he unites to himself by an unbreakable alliance, and whom he constantly 'nourishes and cherishes.'"” — Catechism footnote: LG 6; Cf. Gal 4:26; Rev 12:17; 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17; Eph 5:25-26, 29.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“Then all those he has redeemed and made "holy and blameless before him in love," will be gathered together as the one People of God, the "Bride of the Lamb,"” — Catechism footnote: Rev 21:9.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“…“IS,” that true “IS,” that “IS” in the true sense of the word, that I long for; that “IS;” which “is” in that “Jerusalem” which is “the Bride” of my Lord; where there will not be death, there will not be failing; there will be a day that passeth not away, but continueth: which has neither a yesterday to precede…” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And he took me in the Spirit to a great mountain, and he showed me the holy city Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.”” — editor's note: Rev. xxi. 9–11.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §865.
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §757.
Cited together in Catechism §865.
Cited together in Catechism §757.