God
What is Love?
To will and do good for the person we love
What percentage of Jesus is human and what percent is God?
100%, 100%
How is original sin washed away1
Baptism
What does infallibility mean?
The Church is able to profess the true faith without error
What is Original Sin and who committed it?
Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
What is God's greatest expression of Love for us?
Sending Jesus Christ (to die sacrificially on the cross for us)
Who founded the Catholic Church and who was placed in leadership of it?
Jesus, his Apostles
Define Sacrament
A sacred sign Christ gave to the Church to deliver grace to us, share his divine life with us, and make us holy.
What are the four marks of the church?
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
Suffering is not enjoyable but when we accept it without complaint for Jesus' sake we call it Redemptive Suffering. Why?
Because through it we participate in Jesus' saving work.
What does the name Jesus mean?
What does Christ mean?
God Saves
Anointed One.
What are the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, piety, fortitude, fear of the Lord.
What is Salvation? What sacrament relates to it?
The restoration of our relationship with God. Reconciliation/Confession.
What are the four events that are referred to as the Paschal Mystery?
Jesus' Passion (suffering), Death, Resurrection from the dead, and Ascension into heaven.
What are the three conditions for a Sin to be Mortal?
1. Must be serious matter.
2. One must have full knowledge the act is gravely sinful.
3. One must willingly consent to committing the sin.
"Paschal" is Hebrew for "Passover." Describe the historical event that occurred at the original Passover?
Dow does a Catholic Define Mystery?
God, through Moses, commanded the Hebrew people to sacrifice a lamb and mark their doors with its blood. That night, the firstborn in every home in Egypt died, except those in homes with the blood spattered on their doorways. Pharoah then finally freed God's people from slavery in Egypt.
Something we would not have known unless God had revealed it.
What is the Incarnation?
The coming of God in the flesh, when Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity became man.
What new relationship do we have to God through Baptism?
God adopts us as His children.
The Kerygma is the most basic version of the Gospel. Write the message of the Kerygma.
God created us to be in loving communion with Him for all eternity, but sin alienates us from Him, so He sent His Son Jesus to suffer and die to restore us into right relationship with Him. Jesus established the Church and through the Sacraments we receive a share in the very life of God.
Define Sin and some of its negative effects.
1. A deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to God’s plan. Missing the mark
2. It is addictive, self-destructive
3. It weakens the sinner
4. Makes it more difficult to find true happiness
Explain who the Trinity is. Who it consists of, how many, how related.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Three Persons in one God, with one divine nature
The love between the Father and Son is the Holy Spirit. God created us to share in the life of the Trinity.
List the 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity.
Define Natural Reason
Define Revelation
Reason: The human power to think and figure something out.
Revelation: What God has revealed about himself to us.
What is the Particular Judgement?
We will know how our actions and life compared to what God made us to be; this will determine how we spend eternity, either with God in heaven or separated from him in hell.
Define:
Heaven
Hell
Purgatory
Heaven: the state of supreme, definitive happiness
Hell: Those who willfully persist in a state of mortal sin until death; those who freely choose to reject God.
Purgatory: The state of preparation and purification for those who die in a state of grace, but are not ready for Heaven yet due to remaining imperfections in their souls.