Vocations
Name the 4 'Big V' Vocations.
Single Life, Married Life, Religious Life, Priesthood.
The word 'decide' literally means is to what?
To 'cut off.'
Which of the 5 Love Languages does prayer BEST coincide with (regarding our relationship with God)?
Quality Time.
Fill in the blank [it is the same word]: Now the ____ is not a single part, but many. You are Christ's ____, and individually parts of it. (1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27)
A man who has entered a religious order devoted to prayer and contemplation and bound by vows.
What is a monk?
Which vocations do NOT have a Sacrament connected to them?
The single life and religious life.
Define discernment.
To sift through: to discern is to understand and decide on a course of action regarding inspirations that influence our thoughts, words, and deeds either toward God to heaven or away from Him to hell.
Prayer is essentially about what? (HINT: 5th 'p' of the 5 'p's' of prayer)
Presence
What was Gideon's (who was one of the Judges of ancient Israel) excuse that God should pick someone else?
He was poor or weak.
Who wrote The Screwtape Letters?
C.S. Lewis
Name the universal vocation everyone is called to.
Holiness.
This word comes from the Latin word 'to call.'
Vocation.
What posture when praying symbolizes receiving teaching?
Sitting (just as the apostles sat at Jesus’ feet).
Fill in the blanks: "We ____ because he first _____ us." (1 John 4:19)
love, loved
Name the 3 actors in the Spiritual Life.
Good Spirits, Evil Spirits, Self
Finish the quote: “God has created me to do Him some definite _______. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.” - Cardinal John Henry Newman
Service.
We have defined love in theology as (HINT: St. Thomas Aquinas' definition)
willing the good of the other.
The 'P' of Prayer that entails focusing your prayer, whether though sacramentals, Scripture verses, holy icons, etc.
Passage
According to Scripture, what are 3 characteristics of Evil Spirits in the spiritual life?
Rush you (James 4:7), Push you (Genesis 3:13Frighten you (1 Peter 5:8), Confuse you (Genesis 3:4-5), Discourage you (2 Corinthians 11:3), Worry you (1 John 3:8), Condemn you (John 10:10)
At what seminary did Mr. Reichley study?
St. Meinrad?
Complete the quote: "The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a _____." - Leon Bloy
Saint.
Define the laity (1st week of class).
The people i.e. non-religious and non-priests.
Name 3 characteristics of the Good Spirit (God and His angels working in the Spirit) in the the spiritual life?
Comforts you (Isaiah 51:11), Protect you (Psalm 121:7), Help you (Psalm 115:11), Convince you (John 16:13), Lead you (Isaiah 30:21), Still you (Psalm 29:11)
St. Paul, in the first letter to Timothy, writes "let no one have contempt for your ________, but set an example for those who believe."
Youth.
On September 29, 1953 (the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel), ground was broken next door for the construction of St. Michael's Church _________ (HINT: where nuns live in community).
Convent.