Virtues
Turning one's thoughts, emotions, and actions towards God. This virtue includes acts of charity, chastity, and commitment to the truth of faith.
What is Purity of Heart?
The desire, informed by faith and natural reason, to comprehend God and all He has revealed.
What is Understanding?
A serious break from the law of God that destroys the divine life in a person and turns their heart from God.
What is Mortal Sin?
A statement or summary of beliefs that a group of people hold in common. There are two versions of this in the Catholic faith, known as the Apostles' ______ and the Nicene _____.
What is (a) Creed?
The word of God written by human authors under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as found in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
What is Scripture?
What is Chastity?
The absolute value of the human person made in the image of God. This gift is conferred to each person at the moment of conception and is an immutable realty- an integrated bodily and spiritual reality.
What is Dignity?
The consequence of the disobedience of Adam and Eve through which all human beings lost the original blessing of God and became subject to sin and death.
What is Original Sin?
An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us by the work of the Holy Spirit.
What is (a) Sacrament?
Special feast days during the church year on which we remember moments in the life of Jesus, His mother Mary, or the saints.
What are Holy Days of Obligation?
This helps a person to believe in God and all that He has revealed. This gift from God grows as we deepen our relationship with Him.
What is Faith?
The Christian response to receive God's gifts gratefully and share them with others in love and justice.
What is Stewardship?
Choosing to do something that is wrong because it is opposed to reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor.
What is Sin?
The permanent spiritual mark that is imprinted on our souls in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders.
What is an Indelible Spiritual Character?
The gift from God that makes us truly human. It is the ability to choose to love God and do what is good. We have this because we are made in God's image.
What is Free Will?
What is Hell?
The state of eternal and perfect happiness found in the presence and love of God.
What is Heaven?
A solemn agreement between God and His people, or between two humans, that involves mutual commitments fro the good of the relationship.
What is (a) Covenant?