Sacred Scripture and Spirituality
The first five books of the bible in a word.
What is the Pentateuch/Torah
Choosing right over wrong, or vise versa, without external influence of your choice.
What is free will?
What are the Crusades?
What is the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Beings that are neither human nor divine and cannot be saved through Jesus Christ.
What are fallen angels?
Praying with the bible in a way that usually involves reading the same passage three or four times.
What is Lectio Divina?
Leviticus 18:22, Romans, and Corinthians as examples of where this sexual practice is explicitly condemned in the bible.
What is homosexuality?
Quoted “The reason for our existence is to quench the thirst of Jesus. When he asked for water, the soldier gave him vinegar to drink—but his thirst was for love, for souls, for you and me.”
Who is Mother Theresa?
The science of genetics is sometimes used against creationism. However, this geneticist and monk showed how faith and science can often coincide.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Scattering, putting in jewelry, and placing on the mantel in the family room, as examples.
What are inappropriate things to do with one's ashes?
Praying for the living and the dead, admonishing the sinner, forgiving willingly, for example.
What are the spiritual works of mercy?
Depending on the situation, medical providers, patients, and relatives of patients should exercise great discernment before ordering this practice at the moment of natural death.
What is a DNR order?
Primarily convened to address the heresy that Jesus was created, but not divine.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
A philosophical way of thinking that suggests everyone is right in their own way when it comes to moral issues. No one has a right to say another is wrong.
What is moral relativism?
What is Liturgy of the Hours?
Form of prayer that involves completely emptying yourself of distractions and engaging in stillness, listening and loving gaze toward God.
What is contemplative prayer?
As a means of controlling how many children a couple might have, couples engage in a practice that pays close attention to a woman's ovulation cycles.
What is natural family planning?
Bishop of Canterbury and martyred by King Henry II.
Who is Becket?
Quoted "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
Immaculate conception and Mother of God, as examples.
What are Marian dogmas?
By word count, this writer wrote the most in the entire bible.
Who is Moses?
Although condemned by the church as early as the 1st century, Pope Pius IX more officially universally condemned this medical practice in 1869.
What is abortion?
Council that occurred during the Reformation with the purpose of clearing up Catholic doctrine and refuting conflicting Protestant doctrine.
What is the Council of Trent?
His concepts of Prime Mover and final causes (teleology) helped Catholic thinkers develop the view that God is the ultimate cause and purpose of the universe. He also led St. Thomas Aquinas to develop what are now known as the four cardinal virtues.
Who is Aristotle?
Conclusion of the prayers leading up to and including the prayers of consecration of the Holy Eucharist.
What is Anamnesis (or memorial of Christ's suffering)?