Spiritual Life
The state of being after death in which "those who die in God's grace and friendship are perfectly purified live forever with Christ"
What is Heaven?
The last meal, at Passover, Jesus ate with His Apostles on the night before He died, during which He instituted the Eucharist.
What is Last Supper?
The teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount on the meaning and the way to true happiness or fulfillment
What are the Beatitudes?
The first sacrament of initiation, which makes us members of the church, forgives sins, and gives new life in Christ.
What is baptism?
The written record of how God's revelation of Himself contained in the Old and New Testaments.
the state of being after death in which those who die unrepentant of mortal sin and refuse the love and mercy God
What is Hell?
A feast during which we remember and pray for the holy souls being purified in purgatory
What is All Soul's Day?
Made up of Sacred Tradition and Sacred scripture
What is the deposit of faith?
The sacrament in which we receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The first four books of the New Testament proclaiming the Good News. They are the heart of the New Testament.
What is the Gospel?
a theological virtue that is both a gift from God and a human act by which a person comes to know God and conform their minds, hearts, and wills to Him and the Truth He has revealed
What is Faith?
The dogma that professes that from the beginning of her life, the virgin Mary was preserved from Original Sin so that she could bear the Son of God within her.
What is immaculate conception?
The teaching that "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind," and "you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
What are the Great Commandments?
Season that begins the liturgical season. It is a time where we prepare ourselves for Jesus' birth on Christmas day.
What is Advent?
The 46 books of the Bible that record the history of salvation.
What is the Old Testament?
The state of being after death in which those who "die in God's grace and friendship, but are still imperfectly purified are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Heaven"
What is Purgatory?
The fact that the Son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our salvation.
What is the Incarnation?
Describes how God of the Father and God the Son are both fully God, or of the same divine substance
What is consubstantial?
A brief blessing in word and action in which a person marks themselves with a symbolic gesture of the cross.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
The man God called to be His prophet and to whom he revealed His name. This man saved the Israelites from Egypt
Who is Moses?
The theological virtue by which we desire the Kingdom of God and eternal life and place our trust in all of God's promises to us
What is Hope?
A meeting of all the world bishops together in union with the pope
What is the Ecumenical Council?
The name given to Jesus' explicit teaching about the Eucharist in John 6:22-58
What is the Bread of Life?
The living teaching authority of the Catholic church whose job is to protect Sacred Scripture and Tradition.
What is the Magisterium?
The state of human nature deprived of the original holiness and justice of Adam and Eve enjoyed before the Fall.
What is Original Sin?