What is the Church?
Round Robin Time! What are the 4 parallel aspects of the Church?
Human --> Divine, Visible --> Invisible, Active --> Contemplative, In the World --> Heaven
Double Round Robin Time! What are the three events in which Christ established the Church? And what is the gist of what He said at each event?
Christ sends the 12 out (take nothing for the journey), Christ establishes the priesthood (this is my blood of the covenant, do this in memory of me), Christ dies for the Church (it is finished)
Round Robin Time! What are the 4 aspects of Apostolic Succession?
1. Handing down of the Apostles' teaching, preaching, and office, 2. This is done through the laying on of hands, or ordination, 3. Bishops can't teach anything new that contradicts what they received, 4. Bishops are sacramental descendants of the 12 apostles
From the Greek word "one who is sent," the original 12 leaders of the Church, modern-day bishops
What is an "apostle?"
Round Robin Time! What are the 4 events that led the Church to allowing Gentiles to get baptized?
1. The Early Church considered herself Jewish, 2. Saint Philip baptizes the first Gentile convert, the Ethiopian eunuch, 3. Saint Peter baptizes the second Gentile convert, Saint Cornelius, 4. The Council of Jerusalem decides that Gentiles can be baptized.
Comes from the Greek word meaning "universal"
What is Catholic?
The Hebrew title "Anointed One" which Jesus fulfilled
What is "Messiah?"
What is a "disciple?"
From the Greek word for "witness", someone who dies for the Faith
What is a martyr?
The two groups that Saint Paul was a member of that allowed him to serve as a bridge between them.
What are the Gentiles (Roman Empire) and the Jews (Jewish religion)
Comes from the Greek word "to be called out of"
What is Church?
The emperor of Rome when Jesus was born who called for the census, forcing Joseph and Mary to return to Joseph's hometown of Bethlehem.
Who is Caeser Augustus?
All that the Catholic Church believes to be divinely inspired, contained within the Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Tradition.
What is the Deposit of Faith
The story of God's actions in human history.
What is salvation history?
The reason why baptizing Gentiles was so significant for the Church
The bishops, in union with the pope, who are the official teaching office of the Church
What is the Magisterium?
The Old Testament figure who shared a name with Jesus and led the Israelites into the Promised Land
Who is Joshua?
What Jewish feast and Christian event does Pentecost fall 50 days after?
What is the Passover and the Death and Resurrection of Christ?
The "protomartyr," a deacon killed by a mob spurred on by Saul.
Who is Saint Stephen?
The significance of Saint Peter being the one to baptize Saint Cornelius
What is because he was the pope?
What is infallibility?
What are Hebrew and Aramaic?
The reason Pentecost is called the "birthday of the Church."
Saint Peter baptized 3,000 Jews in Jerusalem, leading to the rapid expansion of the Church
The vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a religious superior or bishop. Some early Christians began living them, the precursors to religious communities.
What are the evangelical counsels?
The 2 decisions that the Council of Jerusalem made.