1 - Why We Need The Church
Adherence to correct or accepted creeds
What is orthodox?
The highest form of love, God’s love
What is agape?
Sancta Ecclesia translates to...
What is "Holy Church"?
The word "catholic" means...
What is "universal"?
The word “canon” is from the Greek word for...
What is "rule"?
Open-ended contract of love between God and human beings
What is a covenant?
This term means “public work” or “work done on behalf of the people.”
What is liturgy?
To be holy means to be...
What is "set apart"?
The foundation of unity among all Christians.
What is Baptism?
This refers to the library of divinely inspired writings that make up the Bible.
What is Sacred Scripture?
Disobedience of Adam and Eve that resulted in the loss of their original holiness
What is Original Sin?
The denial of Christ and the repudiation of the Christian Faith by a baptized Christian.
What is apostasy?
The right to formally declare that a person is in Heaven and worthy of veneration as a saint.
What is canonization?
This religion has special honor because it was to them that God first revealed the Old Covenant.
What is Judaism?
The word apostolic comes from the word "apostle", which means...
What is "having been sent"?
Church translates to ecclesia in Latin and ekkelein in Greek, meaning...
What is... "to call out of"?
Central truths of Revelation that Catholics are obliged to believe.
What are dogmas?
A trait of God that refers to his total otherness and being infinitely beyond and independent of creation.
What is transcendence?
The first person to use the word “catholic."
Who is St. Ignatius of Antioch?
This term can be translated as “remembrance” and it signals recovery of deep memory.
What is anamnesis?
This means “first gospel.” This is the first announcement that God would send a redeemer who is a descendant of Eve.
What is Protoevangelium?
Gatherings of all the Catholic bishops of the world. These determine those things that all the local churches (dioceses) will hold in common.
What are ecumenical councils?
Seeing God “face-to-face” in Heaven, the source of our eternal happiness; the final union with the Triune God for all eternity.
What is the Beatific Vision?
Vatican II taught that various customs could be introduced into Catholic worship as long as they were not…
What is "indissolubly bound up with superstition and error”?
The Magisterium refers to this.
What is the teaching authority of the Church?