Conversion
Who is the Messiah?
Jesus Christ
Christ's great two commandments
What are: to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Living as this means that we must love as He loved.
A disciple of Jesus
What do we first receive at Baptism, is strengthened through the other Sacraments, and restored through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation?
Sanctifying Grace
What is conversion?
A radical reorientation of one's whole life away from sin and evil and toward God.
To be followers of Jesus ,it is not enough to listen to Jesus's teachings. We must do what?
Put the teachings into practice.
What is one way God proved His love for us?
While we were still sinners Christ died for us.
What are the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience made by those who enter consecrated life.
Evangelical Counsels
What is a judgement of reason about the moral rightness or wrongness of our actions?
Our conscience
What are Jesus's moral and spiritual teaching centered on?
Love
Who must we include in our love?
Our love must extend to everyone in need of compassion, especially those who are ignored or cast aside by society, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the unborn, our enemies, those who struggle with particular sins.
What are some examples of people called to evangelical counsels (consecrated life)?
Monks, nuns, priests, etc.
What Saint's life from the New Testament is a perfect example of conversion?
St. Paul
What does God do when we turn away from Him in sin?
He seeks us out in love and brings us back to Him.
What is one of the best gifts we have been given as followers of Jesus?
The Good News of Salvation
Which Saint was from France and became a missionary to the Native Americans in the United States, ending up being captured and tortured by another Native American Tribe?
St. Isaac Jogues (pg. 225)
True or False: The call to conversion is addressed to the unbaptized?
False: people of all walks of life are called to conversion (see pg. 219)
What strengthens our bond to Christ and His church so that we can fulfill the call to holiness?
Confirmation
What happens the more closely we follow Jesus?
The more like Him we become, and in time our lives themselves are able to show people, in part, who Jesus us and what is means to follow Him.
Name two things that are uncomfortable, but a necessary part of following Jesus.
Suffering and sacrifice (pg. 223)