The Bible and the Covenant
The rules that teach us how to live in right relationship with God and with one another.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The gift from God that allows us to choose what we do, is the basis for our moral responsibility.
What is free will?
To return that which was stolen.
What is restitution?
The preeminent prayer of all Christians.
What is the Our Father or the Lord's Prayer?
The Book which contains the story of the Chosen people and their Savior, Jesus Christ.
What is the Bible?
The place God made a Covenant with the Chosen People during the Exodus.
Where is Sinai?
An understanding of what is good given to each person at birth.
What is the natural law?
To make whole something that was damaged or broken.
What is reparation?
To ask God for something for ourselves or for others.
What is a prayer of petition?
Someone other than Father Tom, Mikayla, or your parents you can ask questions about your faith, what Catholics believe, and why we do the things we do.
Who are my catechists, godparents, and people I see living a good Catholic life?
These statements teach us the values that we need in order to live the New Law.
What are the Beatitudes?
Three things to consider when we judge the morality of an act.
What are the object, the intention, and the circumstances?
Working to meet people's immediate physical needs.
Telling God how much we appreciate who He is and what He does for us.
What is a prayer of praise?
Teachings based on God's Revelation by and through Jesus Christ.
What is doctrine?
The person Jesus is often called a new version of because like this person he brought Laws and a Covenant to God's people.
Who is Moses?
The two types of sin.
What are venial and mortal sins?
Encyclical written by Pope Paul VI that affirms the sanctity of human life and that it cannot be regulated by artificial means.
What is "Of Human Life" or "Humanae Vitae" in Latin?
The three modes of prayer practiced by Christians through the centuries.
What are vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplation?
The official teaching authority of the Church.
What is the Magisterium?
The book in the Old Testament that has the most laws.
What is Leviticus?
The four Cardinal Virtues.
What are prudence, justice, temperance, an fortitude?
The ability by which people come act on what they are told is right and wrong by different authoritative figures like the Bible, their teachers, websites, etc.
What is discernment?
To meditate on the images of the saints as we pray.
What is veneration?
A reference document that summarizes all the teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church?