CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Judas

Hanged himself

St. Peter

Preached the gospel in Vatican Hill, crucified upside down

St. Andrew

Preached the gospel in Asia Minor Scythia, East of Turkey, Greece and Macedonia, crucified to an x=shaped cross

St. James the Greater

Beheaded

St. John

Preached the gospel in Ephesus, boiled in oil

St. Simon

Preached the gospel in Persia, crucified

Jude

Preached the gospel in Persia, clubbed to death

James the Less

Preached the gospel in Jerusalem, smashed his brains out with a club

St. Philip

Preached the gospel in Greece, crucified upside-down

St. Bartholomew

Preached the gospel in India, skinned alive

St. Matthew

Preached the gospel in Africa, martyred while offering mass

St. Thomas

Preached the gospel in Persia and India, stabbed to death

St. Matthias

Preached the gospel in Judaea, Cappadocia, and in the Northern most regions of Asia Minor near the Caspian Sea, he was either crucified or hacked to death

The Church

Is a community

Word of Christ, work of the Holy Spirit

The first Christian community and the spread of the church is inspired by the ___, and the ___

Constant listening to the preaching of the apostles, gathering together in fellowship, they expressed their faith in loving service for one another, the celebration of the breaking of the bread

Members of the early church were made one by:

Jewish

In the beginning, the Mother church at Jerusalem still participated in the __ worship in the temple

Jewish form of piety

First Christisns lived with traditional __ but a new form of worship was added

Eucharist

Celebration of the breaking of the bread

Magnificat, Benedictus

Christian hymns

Lord’s Prayer

The ___, typical petition prayer in the synagogue

Those who believed shared all things in common

To become a Christian was to become a member of the faith community, sharing a common life, they expressed their faith in loving service for one another, they would sell their property and goods, dividing everything on the basis of each one’s need

Breaking of the bread

While in their homes they broke bread and took their meals in common, the common pratice of the ___ was a celebration of love centered in the sharing of the body and blood of Christ

Koinonia

It was a communion, a ___ which means fellowship of Christ, he who bound them in faith, hope and love

Koinonia

It exists in order to evangelize, to proclaim the good news, to build up the church, to serve the kingdom with gospel values and be united in Christ as head

Church teaching

The community of disciples does not exist only for itself or its members, it exists for the world, it is sent on mission to proclaim the good news of Christ and to be an instrument of his grace

It exists for the world

The community of disciples does not exist only for itself or its members, ___, it is sent on mission to proclaim the good news of Christ and to be an instrument of his grace

Second Plenary Council of the Philippines

PCP II

PCP vision of the Church

As the community of disciples reflects the reality of the early Church in its growth and spread among different people and nations

Jerusalem to Rome

In the spread of the Church ___

Jewish-Christian

The period with Jerusalem as its center

Gentile Christianity

The period of transition from Jewish to ___ with Antioch as its center

St. Paul’s missionary journeys

The period of ___ to the Gentiles

Christians, Jews

The __ were accused by the __ as deserters and traitors

Christian vision and practice of the Church

The Christians and the Jews parted ways because of conflict in terms of __

Stoning of Stephen

The conflict deepened and the line of separation was finally drawn in bringing consequences on both sides, it led to the first outbreak of persecution in the __

70

With the destruction of Jerusalem in the year __, the special pre-eminence of the early church in Jerusalem was at end