theology

means a self gift not forced

free

means giving 100%

total

means commitment to your vows for the whole of life and circumstances

faithful

means that the relationship is life giving

fruitful

How is Marriage a visible sign of God's love for humanity?

Marriage is a sacrifice which reflects Jesus' sacrifice out of love for His bride, the Church.

What does it mean that married couples become a sacrament?

They become a sign and instrument of God's love for the other person.

God's love actually begins with a marriage (Adam and Eve) and ends with the book of Revelation which concludes with the marriage of the Lamb (union of Christ and the Church)

How we know that marriage is a sign of God's love in the world.

The analogy God uses for His relationship to his creation is:

marriage

FTFF broken down

Free Love \=(Non-controlled)

Total Love \=(Unconditional)

Faithful Love\= (Committed)

Fruitful Love \=(Life giving both physically and spiritually)

What do the FTFF vows do for married couples?

Enable them to live out life-long love. The only way to make love is as a sacrament."

How does contraception contradict FTFF love?

Sex is meant to be both unitive and procreative. (become one, love brings forth life)

Contraception makes the body something to be used.

What are the 3 predictions Paul VI made about the effects of contraception on society?

Infidelity and moral decline

Lost Respect for Women in general

Abuse of Power by lawmakers who may seek mandated sterilization

We are a body-soul composite. Our body allows our soul to be known to the world. We express the love of God through our bodies.

What does it mean that the body speaks a language?

How does the body communicate love?

When men and women love as God created them to love through their body

What actions of the body speak lies rather than love?

Adultery, contraception, fornication, pornography

How can you prepare now for a faithful marriage in the future?

Be faithful and truthful in the language of your body now.

How does the body language of sex says the relationship is FTFF

• Sex is free—not forced

• Sex is total—holds nothing back (not even clothes!)

• sex os faithful--monogamous, exclusive, even anatomically

• Sex is fruitful—it can result in life

What are the affects of VASOPRESSIN?

Creates attachment to your mate, increases protectiveness, promotes desire for intimacy, promotes feelings of loyalty

What are the effects of oxytocin?

Creates bonding and attachment, increases feeling of trust, diminishes experience and memory of pain, creates desire for more contact, improves empathy

How is oxytocin produced or exchanged?

Giving birth, Breastfeeding, kissing (some), through sex

No matter what your gender is or what a person may believe it is, that person is made in God's image and likeness and the response to that person should always be love!! Each person (no matter what) has dignity and inestimable worth and should be treated with love, compassion and kindness, not ridicule and scorn.

main point to remember regarding gender and identity.

What determines someone's masculine or feminine nature? What the body reveals and that this goes all the way to the cellular level. "Every cell of the human body that has a nucleus is sexed and there are ubiquitous sex differences in the molecular makeup of all male and female cells." Dr. Mauvais-Jarvis

Christian view regarding gender

that one's gender identity can be separate from their sex and the body (possibly) be altered to fit with this perception.

pop culture's view regarding gender identity

Introduces the term gender role in 1955; first to perform an intentional "sex reassignment" operation involving one of a set of twin boys.

John Money

GD is a disconnect between what one's body reveals and what a person feels he or she is.

What Gender dysphoria is.

Each person deserves to be heard, compassionate care given, those who deal with this can go through some serious suffering because of it.

what we all need to remember about those who struggle with gd.

People often define maleness and femaleness based on a stereotypes of these genders. We need to stop defining gender based on stereotypes. A woman is a person whose body is female and has ANY PERSONALITY. Or A man is a person whose body reveals male and has ANY PERSONALITY.

impact of gender stereotypes

The reality is that years after these treatments people's level of suicidal tendencies are 5 times higher than other people.

Effects of gender reassignment surgery on people years later.

Our hope is that those who are hurting with accepting the gender given to them at birth (gender dysphoria) might find healing and hope through counseling and by self acceptance through faith in Jesus Christ.

How a person with Gender dysphoria finds hope.

"(Name) and (name), have you come here freely and without reservation to give yourselves to each other in marriage?"

Vows reflecting free and total

"Will you honor each other as man and wife for rest the of your lives?"

vows reflecting faithful

"Will you accept children lovingly from God, and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his church?"

vows reflecting fruitful

Marriage and family is the school of love

what JPII says the family is.

The passion and death of Christ. We learn to love by His example.

the model of Christian love reflected in marriage.

Marriage because it "transmits in the visible world the invisible mystery hidden in God."

the primordial sacrament.

When infatuation fades and some stress or suffering comes along, a couple sees the reality of the real people they each are.

How to know if love is real.

Their love grows stronger (roots going down into the ground) if not, they will flee the relationship (break up)

Difference between life long love or infatuation.

Loving the imperfect person perfectly not finding the perfect person. requires humility and give and take.

The role that forgiveness plays in marriage .

How is marriage a vocation?

It is a call that involves courage, love and sacrifice.

Humans are a \____________________ composite

body-soul

reason the human body is valuable

enables the soul to be known; made in God's image

virtues lead to greater

freedom

vices lead to

enslavement

first holy roman emperor to gain control over Germany, Italy and France

Charlemagne

Who crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas in 800 a.d.

Pope Leo III

official language declared by Charlemagne used at all masses

Latin

Charlemagne's love of learning inspired him to do the following

create the first universities ever in existence; set up a palace school for kids of the monarchy; schools set up at monasteries for the communities they served.

Who was in power During the middle ages?

It was a struggle between the Pope and the Emperor

The emperor would strong arm the people to maintain power away from the \______________ who people often followed on account of their conscience.

Pope

During the middle ages the way to solve conflict often involved

war and military conflicts

in Medieval times, Fighting was allowed on every day except for

Sunday

Kings funded wars through

taxes

A ruler who was holy and became a saint in the middle ages

St. Louis, King of France

A source of joy for people in the Middle ages was the...

Cathedral

Devotions to the \__________ led to increase in shrines, relics and statues in the middle ages.

saints

The Chruch's greatest theologians and philosophers lived during this time.

Age of Scholars

the Crusades were Designed to drive the \_________ from the Holy Land and set up a Christian state there.

Turks

Crusade is latin for Crux, meaning...

cross

Faith motivated people during the Crusades but also these other things.

gaining wealth, adventure, and fame

Original goal behind the crusades

to regain the Holy Land from the Moslems

A great \___________________ reform happened around 900A.D. set to recapture the ideals of St. Benedict

monastic

The monastic life reform began at a monastery at \____________.

Cluny

The number of monasteries in Europe by 1000a.d

over 2000

orders such as the Franciscan and Dominican orders were known as \_________________ because they took an additional vow of poverty

mendicant (begging)

called to rebuild the Church and help the poor over power and world authority of the Church at that time.

St. Francis of Assisi

Formed a mendicant community and given the Rosary.

St. Dominic

A game French monks started that we still have today

dominoes

why people related so well to the mendicant orders

they were also materially poor

Where the papal government was relocated to after the king forced the move.

France (Avignon)

In which period did a series of French popes squeeze money out of the church to support a luxurios papal palace and an enourmous political system?

Babylonian Captivity

Which saint strongly urged pope Gregory XI to return to Rome?

St. Catherine of Sienna

The rulers of \____ and \____ elected their own pope at the same time and they both claimed to be the pope of the catholic church.

Germany and England

The first major split in Christianity between the East and West happened in which year- Important Date!

1054

What is the main difference between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?

The Roman rite honors the authority of the Pope as the successor of Peter while the Eastern Church honored the Patriarch

What is the form of Anointing of the Sick?

Laying on of Hands and prayers

What is the matter of the anointing of the sick?

holy oil

posted the 95 thesis in 1517 on the Cathedral doors

Martin Luther

a major issue that Luther protested the Church on...

buying and selling of indulgences

True or False. Luther intended to start different denominations of Christianity

False. He sought to reform the Church already put in place by Christ.

An issue Luther had with the Church

the number and nature of the Sacraments and devotion to relics

Luther also sought to expose

the corruption of the hierarchy in the Church

During this period in history (14th-17th century) the Renaissance was in full swing. Renaissance means...

rebirth of classical (Greek and Roman)

Effects on Renaissance on art, literature

greater realism and humanist themes

effects of Renaissance on Philosophy

more of humanist approach and less an emphasis on God

how science affects religion in the Renaissance

the earth is discovered to revolve around the sun and not vice versa; research 3-4 different Christian denominations that developed in the wake of the Reformation.

St. Francis de Sales

French Bishop who wrote introduction to the devout life, encouraging people of all walks of life to be devoted to prayer.

St. Vincent de Paul

served the poor during the 17th Century and founded a community of priests and a community of sisters to serve the poor.

St Teresa of Avila

brought great reforms to the Carmelite order and began the Discalced community of nuns and many many convents.

The Council of the Church which sought to address the the main issues of the Protestants

Council of Trent

Protestant beliefs sought to be addressed by the Council of Trent

the nature and number of Sacraments, Sola Scriptura , Devotion to Mary and the Saints, role of the monastic life

Reforms and Clarification made at the Council of Trent

number and nature of the Sacraments, the importance of Mary and the Saints, Magisterial Authority, Reading and interpretation of Scripture, Grace, Free will, and Original Sin

Sola Scriptura

"Scripture alone." It is the belief that all man needs for salvation is the Bible outside of Tradition or the Church's guidance in interpreting Scripture. This continues as a tenet for most Protestants.

Religious movements within the Church that happened during the Renaissance (be able to talk about them.)

Vincentians, Sisters of Charity, Christian Brothers, Carmelites, etc.

What are the 7 different gifts of the Holy Spirit and what impact does Confirmation have on the soul who receives them?

wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. These gifts and Confirmation strengthen the bond received at Baptism.

Who was Ignatius of Loyola and why were the Jesuits so important during this time period?

Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish nobleman who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1540. The Jesuits were important during this time period because they were a powerful force in the Catholic Counter-Reformation, spreading Catholicism and combating Protestantism through education and missionary work.

During the time of the world wars, Catholicism resisted the trend toward a new spirit of worldliness called \________________.

secularism

The initial Christian immigrant Church was \________________.

Protestant