Background
Man's response to God's invitation to relationship is called:
Faith
CCC 26
Faith is man’s response to God’s invitation to relationship
The number of Gods we believe in:
One
We firmly believe and confess without reservation that there is only one true God, eternal infinite (immensus) and unchangeable, incomprehensible, almighty and ineffable, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; three persons indeed, but one essence, substance or nature entirely simple.
4th Lateran Council
The mystery of the ____________ is the central mystery of Christian faith and life.
Most Holy Trinity
Jesus possesses two natures, one _____ and the other human...
Divine
Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God's Son. CCC 481
By giving up his own Son for our ________ God manifests that is his plan for us is one of benevolent love.
Sins
CCC 604
By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins." God "shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."
The first two words of the Nicene Creed
I believe
In saying I believe we arrive at a certainty about the existence of God and the cause and end of everything.
CCC 46
God calls this prophet from the midst of a burning bush and reveals his name
Moses
God calls Moses from the midst of a bush that burns without being consumed: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
By revealing his name God at the same time reveals his faithfulness which is from everlasting to everlasting, valid for the past ("I am the God of your father"), as for the future ("I will be with you").12 God, who reveals his name as "I AM", reveals himself as the God who is always there, present to his people in order to save them. CCC 205-207
This person revealed in Matthew 11:27 that God is Father.
Jesus
CCC 240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father in relation to his only Son, who is eternally Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him"
This resulted in the Church confessing at the Council of Nicea these doctrines of faith in the Creed.
"Behold I am the _________ of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your Word" Luke 1:28
handmaid
Espousing the divine will for salvation wholeheartedly, without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and to the work of her Son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with him and dependent on him, by God's grace: CCC 494
In the Apostles Creed we pray that Christ descended into ______.
Hell
This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there. CCC 632
The name of the ecumenical council that affirmed the beliefs of the Creed in 325:
The Council of Nicea
God created ___________ out of love and wisdom
Everything, the World
How many are your works, Lord!
In wisdom you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures. Psalm 104:24
The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and _____
the Son.
CCC 246
The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)". The Council of Florence in 1438 explains: "The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration. . . . And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son."
From the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original _____ and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life.
Sin
CCC 508
The __________ of Jesus is the Crowning truth of our faith
Resurrection
CCC 638 The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross:
Christ is risen from the dead!
Dying, he conquered death;
To the dead, he has given life.
Man is made to live in communion with ________in whom he finds happiness.
God.
"when I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trial; entirely full of you, my life will be complete" Augustine CCC 45
Name this great saint, son of St Monica, in his work The Confessions, who said:
"For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have made; for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. How would anything have endured, if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved? You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living"
St. Augustine
CCC 301
While they are called _This number of__ persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance.
3
Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the ________________ in the womb of the Virgin Mary
The Holy Spirit
496 From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, affirming also the corporeal aspect of this event: Jesus was conceived "by the Holy Spirit without human seed".146 The Fathers see in the virginal conception the sign that it truly was the Son of God who came in a humanity like our own. Thus St. Ignatius of Antioch at the beginning of the second century says:
You are firmly convinced about our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly born of a virgin,. . . he was truly nailed to a tree for us in his flesh under Pontius Pilate. . . he truly suffered, as he is also truly risen.147
It says in CCC 652 Christ's resurrection is the fulfillment of the promises of the Old Testament and of ______ himself during his earthly life
Jesus
The Desire for God is written in the human ________
Heart. because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for. CCC 27
These spiritual non-corporeal beings are a truth of our faith
Angels
328 The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls "angels" is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.
Who are they?
329 St. Augustine says: "'Angel' is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is 'spirit'; if you seek the name of their office, it is 'angel': from what they are, 'spirit', from what they do, 'angel.'"188 With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they "always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven" they are the "mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word".
This sacrament by imparting the life of Christ's grace erases original sin
Baptism
CCC 405 Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.
The knot of this woman's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience.
Eve
The knot of Eve's disobedience was untied by Mary's obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith." St. Irenaeus CCC 494
The number of days Jesus stayed on earth before ascending into heaven.
40
CCC 659 "So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God."532 Christ's body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys.533 But during the forty days when he eats and drinks familiarly with his disciples and teaches them about the kingdom, his glory remains veiled under the appearance of ordinary humanity.534 Jesus' final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God's right hand.535 Only in a wholly exceptional and unique way would Jesus show himself to Paul "as to one untimely born", in a last apparition that established him as an apostle.536
A common symbol of the Holy Spirit.
Water, Dove, Fire, Seal, Cloud and Light, Hand, Finger, Anointing CCC 694-CCC 701
United with this person_________, the Church is sanctified by him, through him, and with him she becomes sanctifying.
Christ
CCC 824
The _____________ is at work with the Father and the Son from the Beginning.
The Holy Spirit
CCC 686 "The Holy Spirit is at work with the Father and the Son from the beginning to the completion of the plan for our salvation. "
We believe in one, holy, Catholic and __________ church, because she is founded on the apostles in 3 ways.
Apostolic
CCC 857
The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways:
- she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles," the witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;
- with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching, the "good deposit," the salutary words she has heard from the apostles;
- she continues to be taught, sanctified, and guided by the apostles until Christ's return, through their successors in pastoral office: the college of bishops, "assisted by priests, in union with the successor of Peter, the Church's supreme pastor":
Belief in the resurrection of the __________has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings.
dead
CCC 991
The meaning of the word Catholic
Universal
CCC830- 831 The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense:
First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church." In her subsists the fullness of Christ's body united with its head; this implies that she receives from him "the fullness of the means of salvation" which he has willed: correct and complete confession of faith, full sacramental life, and ordained ministry in apostolic succession. The Church was, in this fundamental sense, catholic on the day of Pentecost and will always be so until the day of the Parousia.Secondly, the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race:
On this day God, in his almighty power, will definitively grant incorruptible life to our bodies by reuniting them with our souls, through the power of Jesus' Resurrection.
The Last Day
CCC 997-1001
Another name/title for the Holy Spirit (more than one possible correct answer)
The Paraclete, Advocate
CCC 692
4 marks of the Catholic faith
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
CCC 811
The church encourages us daily to prepare for the hour of our death through this very well known prayer.
The Hail Mary
CCC 1014 The Church encourages us to prepare ourselves for the hour of our death. In the litany of the saints, for instance, she has us pray: "From a sudden and unforeseen death, deliver us, O Lord";586 to ask the Mother of God to intercede for us "at the hour of our death" in the Hail Mary; and to entrust ourselves to St. Joseph, the patron of a happy death.