Refresher
A feeling of contentment or satisfaction within a person or a situation. Regularly used in Scripture to describe the lot of those who are blessed by God for doing His will, with its ultimate fulfillment in heaven.
What is happiness?
The character who could see the Angel
Who is the donkey?
_____ during the Middle Ages were instrumental in developing new farming and agricultural technologies and practices.
What are monks?
The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.
What is Reason?
To rejoice in God's love
What is Psalm 100?
A feeling of intense longing.
What is yearning?
The Moabite King that sees the Israelites are going to riot, and thus sends messengers to bring Balaam to Moab to curse the Israelites.
Who is Balaak?
A Belgian priest and contemporary of Einstein. Is known as the father of the Big Bang Theory. When he first proposed his theory, Einstein told him he was a fool and his physics were nonsense. But he persisted and after only a few years, Einstein was convinced and called the Big Bang Theory “the most satisfactory explanation” of the origins of the universe.
Who is Fr. George LeMaitre?
The gift of _____ is directed toward the knowledge of God. As the author of all truth, God would not reveal Himself in a way that is contrary to the gift of reason as that would be contradictory to His nature.
What is reason (or intellect)?
To remember God protects you
What is Psalm 46?
Human desires which remain disordered due to the temporal consequences of original sin, which remain even after baptism and produce an inclination to sin.
What is concupiscence?
The man the King of Moab called upon to curse the Israelites.
Who is Balaam?
An Augustinian friar whose work serves as the basis of modern genetics. His research fathered Punnett Squares, used to determine the likelihood of certain traits being inherited by offspring. Working with pea plants, he determined that genes are inherited in pairs and that there are dominant and recessive genes.
Who is Fr. Gregor Mendel?
The meaning of Scripture as communicated by the words of the inspired text.
What is literal sense?
To be encouraged in doing good
What is Psalm 37:1-7?
We are all created with inherent desires and spend our lives trying to discover and fulfill them. When we try to fill our deepest longings with things other than God, we often feel unfulfilled and disappointed. There is something greater in store for us. Our earthly desires point us in the direction of our heavenly yearning.
What is seeking?
The person who opened the mouth of the Donkey and gave it the ability to speak.
Who is God?
The earliest universities sprang up near the end of the _______. They developed out of the so- called “cathedral school” system, which had been operated by the Church at a time when virtually no one else was interested in education.
What is the 12th century?
The Bible is more like a library of several books from various genres than a single book. There are four different “senses” or methods of reading: _____, _____, _____, and _____.
What is literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogical.
To feel God’s presence
What is Psalm 139:7-14?
The love and goodness of God that always surrounds oneself and others. It is the area that holds your mind, heart, soul and sexuality existing as a circle, encasing your body, holding who you are through your senses.
What is Circle of Grace?
The character that God uses to speak to Balaam through.
Who is the donkey?
A Franciscan friar who criticized the blind acceptance of ideas and emphasized the need to test and examine things. Although his work certainly was not perfect, his ideas serve as the foundation for the modern scientific method.
Who is Roger Bacon?
Both a gift of God and a human act by which the believer gives personal adherence to God who invites his response and freely assents to the whole truth that God has revealed.
What is faith?
The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.
What is Psalm 19:1?