CCC 459

The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me."⁷⁴ Mt 11:29; Jn 14:6. On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: "Listen to him!"⁷⁵ Mk 9:7; cf. Dt 6:4-5. Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved you."⁷⁶ Jn 15:12. This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example.⁷⁷ Cf. Mk 8:34.