Vocabulary
What does sin mean?
Any kind of act that messes up your relationship with God or our relationship with others
By what century did Christianity spread through nearly all of Europe?
1000
What are the less serious sins?
What are the more serious sins?
Venial sins
Mortal sins
Why are they called mortal sins?
Because the break or divide use between us and God plus it is just more serious
The pope and the church
what does apostolic succession
when priests and Bishops are in the same line as the original apostles
Bishops and priests were selling what to gain favor with the lords and kings?
Selling the possessions of others that were untrusted to the church to look after.
(When these people died)
Why do we go to reconciliation?
To heal and be forgiving for the wrongs that we have done
describe what a venial sin is
It is a less serious sin that can break use from God and others
Who were priests giving indulgences to and why?
Kings, lords, and knights were wanting the gift because they were scared for their salvation
Definition of simony?
Selling wronglfully possessions of the church
How did the church get so wealth so quickly?
People were entrusting the church to hold there valuables but they were all dying so the church got to keep all the valuable stuff people were giving to them.
What two ways can we do reconciliation
We can be face to face or we can be hidden
Name 4 ways that you could kill someone with out sinning
Being a police officer
Solider
Mentally ill
On accident
In what year did Simony start
900
What does indulgence mean?
Someone trying to buy there way too heaven
Some bishops and priests were loving all the political power and buying things they shouldn’t be buying what does this go against?
That they shouldn’t be going against the life of being poor and being loyal to the church
What are the 4 parts of reconciliation
Confession, contrition, Penance, absolution
Describe an event where something could be a venial sin
Stealing gum, talking back to your parents, etc.
“... he breathed on them saying “receive the Holy Spirit “ whose sins you forgive are forgiven then and whose sins you retain are retained“
who said this, why did he say it, who did he say it to
Jesus said it to his apostles because he was giving them the power to forgive sins on earth
What is conversion/
When you turn away from sin and turn back to God
What does blurred lines mean when it comes to priests and Bishops
describe absolution and penance
Absolution - is the part where your sins are actually forgiven through the Holy Spirit
penance - it is when the priest tells you to do an act of service or prayer
What are 2 things that make it a mortal sin?
You have to be awar that it is wrong while you are doing it
It has to be on your own accord
It has to be serious/ the results are serious
Indulgences were being granted for what
Gifts to the church