The Church
The person who makes the Catholic Church Holy
Who is Jesus Christ
First duty of toward the dead
What is to bury them
The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church
What are Baptism, Eucharist, Confession, Confirmation, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Annointing of the Sick
What do ordained priests offer to God the Father, in the name of Christ, for both the living and the dead?
What is the Eucharistic Sacrifice
A sacrament in which we receive God's mercy and pardon
What is the Sacrament of Penance, or Confession
The spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Pope
Our second duty toward the dead
What is to pray for them
The reason Jesus gave us the Sacraments
What is: to make us holy, to fill us with God's love and grace, to build up the Church, to teach us, to guide us and to render worship to God.
The reason Catholics all over the world are united in worship
Why is we have one altar where Christ daily renews the offering of His Body and Blood. The Holy Eucharist is the central sacrament of the Church.
How to receive absolution from the priest in Confession?
We must be truly sorry for our sins and confess them.
(e.g. Peter wept bitterly)
The Roman Catholic Church is One, Holy, Catholic and _______?
And what does that mean?
What is Apostolic
The Church is apostolic because she is able to trace her lineage in unbroken continuity back to the apostles and their ordained successors.
Our third duty toward the dead
What is offer a Mass for the souls of the deceased
Reason to receive sacraments as often as possible
What is: to give honor to God, to help us grow in love of God and love of neighbor, and to give us strength for our journey to heaven
Why does the Holy Communion unite our soul closer to Jesus?
We receive the body and blood of Christ, which helps us become more like Him.
To receive our Lord in Holy Communion is the most wonderful thing that can happen to us, because it means having the Godman - Jesus - in our own hearts. It is the holiest and greatest of sacraments becuase it is our Savior Jesus Christ we take into our body.
The frequency that a Catholic of age is asked by the Church to go to confession
What is at least once a year.
The definition of Holy
What is: to have charity, to be obedient to God, to follow God and to live according to God's Will.
Reason that we pray for the dead
Because we are a Communion of Saints, despite death we are bonded with others who have gone before us as our forefathers in faith.
Our faith tells us that for those who have died and are going to heaven, we believe that often our souls have to be purified of any attachment to sin before we are holy enough to go to heaven.
Relationship with God that is begun in Baptism
What is: 1. makes us God's adopted beloved sons and daughters, and 2. joins us to Christ who is priest, prophet and king.
God puts an indelible spiritual mark on our soul during Baptism that means you will always belong to Christ.
We are now part of God's kingdom and are part of the building of God's kingdom on earth and will be part of Him in heaven.
How does Holy Communion preserve and increase the supernatural life of our soul?
- the Holy Eucharist is meant to do for the soul what material food does for the body ---that is, to preserve life and protect it.
- the Holy Eucharist preserves the spiritual life of our souls, forgives our venial sins, and protects us from the spiritual disease of mortal sin.
The suffering for our sins that remains even after being forgiven of our sins in confession
What is temporal punishment
Why is the Church catholic or universal?
Because the teachings Christ gave the church are meant for everyone, everywhere, and every time.
The message of Christ is not confined to one people.
He said to the apostles: "To me all power is given in heaven and on each. Go and teach all nations, make disciples of all nations."
Reason we bury the dead
What is that Sacred scripture tells us that each human body is made in God’s image and bears His likeness.
The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and as the catechism says:
The three sacraments of Christian Initiation - these sacraments lay the foundation of every Christian life.
What are Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist.
We are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the Sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life.
How does Holy Communion preserve and increase our love for God?
- By increasing sanctifying grace, the life of God growing in us;
- increasing the attraction to the things of God;
- reducing the power of temptation over us;
- helping fight our weaknesses.
What are the graces received from confessing venial sins?
- strength to fight the root cause of sin
- helps person to fulfill the duites of a person's state of life
- increased the love of God
- gives inner peace