Smarter than a 4th Grader
1. Attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation
2. Confess your sins at least once a year
3. Receive the Eucharist at least once during the Easter Season
4. Observe the days of fast & abstinence
5. Provide for the needs of the church
What are the Precepts of the Church?
"The free and undeserved gift God gives us to respond to our vocation to become His adopted children." [LifeTeen Purpose, Session 1]
What is grace?
The number of books in the Catholic Bible.
What is 73?
The power to make one's own choice.
What is free will?
God can bring this out of suffering.
What is Good?
The four marks of the Church
What are one, holy, catholic and apostolic?
An outward sign instituted by Christ that gives grace. CCC 1131
What is a sacrament?
The author of Sacred Scripture.
Who is God?
"Starbucks is the best coffee in the world!" is what type of truth?
What is subjective truth?
God doesn't promise that we won't have suffering in our lives, but He does promise this.
What is God promises to be with us in our suffering?
The number of sacraments in the Catholic Church.
What is seven?
The type of "Grace that comes through the sacraments and gives us what we need to get to heaven." [LifeTeen Purpose, Session1 & CCC 1272]
What is sanctifying grace?
This Sense of Scripture means understanding what the author intended to say, teach or pass down.
What is literal?
"The sky is blue" is this type of truth.
What is objective truth?
Illness, natural disasters and other things in our world that aren't sinister but cause suffering.
What is natural evil?
Jesus shared these in his Sermon on the Mount, and they begin with "Blessed are...".
What are the Beatitudes?
Both a gift of God and a human act which Don Schwager defines as "to believe and trust in someone or something."
What is faith?
Moral, allegorical and anagogical.
What are the three Spiritual Senses of Scripture?
1. There is no free will
2. There is no right or wrong
3. "What is" doesn't mean anything- life is an accident
What changes if God doesn't exist?
This causes suffering and results from our free choice to sin.
What is moral evil?
They include: "Honor your father and mother;" and "You shall not take the Lord, your God, in vain."
What are the Ten Commandments?
The amount of time God wants us to spend coming to know and understand Him.
What is our entire lives?
This Spiritual Sense of Scripture foreshadows something else in Salvation History.
What is the Allegorical Sense?
"A thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same way."~ Fr. Mike Schmitz
What is the Principle of Non-Contradiction?
These are the two things God asks us to do.
What are to love God (Him) and to love our neighbor/others?