Exam-Quarter 3

  • Vocab 1

    • Saint: a holy person who led a life in union with God through the grace of Christ and received the reward of eternal life, or Heaven

    • Trinity: The Christian mystery revealed to us by God that He is three persons in one God: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Sprit.

    • Destiny: The end goal or purpose for which each of us is created by God which is to be with Him forever in Heaven

    • Eternity: A span of existence that stretches infinitely into the past and future without beginning or end.

    • Person: Someone rather than something with inherit capability of self-knowledge, self possession and the capacity for love.

    • Disciples: Students, the disciples were followers or student of Jesus. Jesus had thousands of disciples. all Christians today are His disciples. Sometimes used interchangeably in the Gospel to refer to 12 Apostles

    • Holiness: The State of being holy set apart by God. It is the fullness of Christian life and the perfection of charity. we do not make ourselves holy, rather holiness comes from God’s initiative

    • Discipleship: The process of growing in relationship with Jesus, learning from his teaching and examples, and journeying on the path of life as His disciples.

    • Universal call to Holiness: God’s calling of every Christian to the fullness or Christian life and to the perfection of charity

    • Vocation: A call from God to a permanent state of life, or marriage. all people have the vocation from God yo love and to be holy

  • Vocab 2

    • Beatitudes: the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount on the meaning and way to true happiness of fulfillment

    • Corporal works of Mercy: Loving actions taught to us by Christ that help us meet a person’s physical needs. Corporal mean “of the body”. The Corporal works of Mercy are feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned and burry the dead

    • Eucharist: The Sacrament in which we receive the Body and Blood Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine. The Eucharist is the source and summit of out Christian life and spiritual food for the soul. not merely a symbol it is Jesus true flesh and blood

    • Obedience of Faith: the response due from man to God’s revelation of Himself: to listen and freely submit to the Word of God.

    • Prayer: the raising of one’s mind and heart to God in praise of His glory, asking for some desired good, giving thanks or asking for His blessing on others. A relationship with God.

    • Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation: The Sacrament through which sins committed after Baptism can be forgiven, and reconciliation with God and community can be effected.

    • Sacrament: Signs of God’s grace that actually give the grace they signify. Jesus founded seven: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Holy Matrimony.

    • Sermon on the Mount: Jesus’ most important moral teaching, found in Matthew 5, in which he explain the divine principles of justice guiding us to the normal path that leads us to Heaven.

    • Temptations: An attraction either from outside oneself or from within to act contrary to right reason and commandments of God.

    • Ten Commandments. the ten rules for a moral life given by God to His chosen people through Moses on Mount Sinai. The first three commandments teach us how to love God, the last seven teach us how to love our neighbor as ourself.

  • Love & Responsibility

    • Teacher of Love

      • Jesus taught us how to love by his example word and actions

      • His self-sacrifice on the cross was the greatness witness of God’s love for us and how we should love another with

    • Respect and the love for self

      • We are created in the imahe and likeness of God-recgonition of this within ourslevers

      • This respect needs to be extened out to othets

    • Love for others

      • We learn to love othets by first loving and respecting oursleber.

      • we recognize that God-given dignity of all people and relize everyone deserves love and respect

      • All vocations are lived out in relationships with others

    • What are some of the different types of love?

      • The Greeks had diffrent words for different types of love

        • Agape-unconditional love

        • philautia-self love

        • storge-family love

        • philia-friendship love

        • eros-martial love

    • Circle of love

      • 1. God loves us unconditonally

      • 2. we learn we are worthy of love

      • 3. we love oursleves

      • 4. we love others

  • Beatutides

    • Matthew includes sayings that we related to specifically Jewish Christian problems that Luke did not find appropriate for his Gentile Christian audience

    • Matthew Sermon on the Mount is longer

    • Luke addresses the real economic and social conditions of humanity ( the poor, the rich, the hungry, the satsfied)

    • Matthew emphasizes that religious and spiritual valse of disciples in the kingdom inaugurated by Jesus

    • Titles are different

    • Matthew is to a crow and Luke is to other disciples

  • God’s Call to each of us

    • What do most people experience at some point in the course of their life?

      1. A deep sense of calling to some kind of work or service

      2. This calling seems significant and permeant

    • Calling

      1. An inspiration to sacrifice and seek with all of our energy some good we believe deep down will fulfill us and make the world a better place

    • Vocation

      1. As disciples of Christ- we all have God given calling:

      2. Vocation: a call from God to a permanent state of life; ordained priesthood, consecrated religious life or marriage

      3. All people have the vocation from God to love and be holy

      4. 3 traditional vocations

        1. Marriage

        2. Consecrated religious life

        3. ordained presithood

    • Holiness

      1. Holiness: the state of being holy or set apart by God. It is the fullness of the christan life and the perfection of charity. We do not make ourselves holy; rather, holiness comes from God’s initiative.

    • The Universal call to Holiness

      1. God’s calling to every Christian to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity

        1. we are called to be saints

    • The core of our call to Holiness

      1. To become like God

        1. God is the Trinity- Father, Son and Holy Sprit

          1. What does this mean? Relationship

          2. God is a communion of love

          3. to be created in His image. means that we have this capacity to give ourselves in love to one another

    • “Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.”

      1. Pope St. John Paul III

    • The 1st step towards holiness

      1. To become holy we must put God above everything else and love Him above all else

      2. charity towards others will flow out of this

    • Discipleship

      1. What is required to be a true disciple of Christ

        1. All Christians today are disciples of Christ. A disciple is a follower or student of Jesus. “Discipleship” the process of growing in relationship with Jesus- learning from his teachings and examples

    • 1. Obedience of Faith

      1. The response due from man to God’s revelation of Himself: to listen and freely submit to the world of God

        1. Required us to follow and obeys God’s commandments

        2. Obedience of faith is required to be a discipleship of Christ

        3. 10 commandment Beatitudes

    • 2. Carrying your cross

      1. “Then Jesus said to his disciples” whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself. Take up his cross and follow me.

        1. Holiness requires sacrifice and dying self

    • 3. A life of Prayer

      1. Prayer is foundation of our relationship with God

      2. We cannot be disciples of Christ without prayer

      3. We should approach God in prayer with trust in His will, and confidence that He will provide for all of our needs.

    • 4. The Sacrament of life

      1. The Sacraments are signs of God’s grace that actually give the grace the signify

        1. Frequenting the sacraments strengthens us as disciples. It’s through them, that God bestows his grace and aid.

      2. There are 3 sacraments

    • Discerning God’s call

      1. What is discernment?

        1. The process of hearing and answering the call to some work or ministy. When we discern a christan vocation, we are deciding upon the best path for us on our way to Sainthood- the unquie path of holiness to which God is calling us.

      2. What did Jesus Command us during his lifetime?

        1. The command us to love one another- as he loved us.

        2. We must care for those who are physically needy- the poor, windowed, orphan and mistreated

      3. How does God most often make His will know to us?

        1. Most often God speaks to us through our desires, ablites and opportuniities and external fedback of others

          1. All of these fam,ctors must be prayerfully considered

          2. we cannont allow oursleves to simply led by feelings or opions of others

      4. Why should we strive to do God’s will in the little things?

        1. The more we thrive to do God’s will in the little things, the more our own will becomes conformed to Hos in things big and small

        2. faithfullness to God in the small things makes it easier to act in obedience with the big things

      5. Why is it important to have a spiritual advisor when discerning a vocation?

        1. The more we talk to God and listen to Him the more we will understand not just what His will is for our lives, but also the ways we need to grow and heal so we can ourse His will

      6. Why is a healthy prayer life essential step in preparing a vocation?

        1. Every decision we make will either led us in the devlopment of vice or virture

        2. Every decion forms our character- our willingness to follow Giod and our abllity to hear His call is depend on the character we devlop over time

      7. Why is the pursuit of virtue a critical part of preparation for our vocation?

        1. every decision we make will either led us in the development of vice or virtue

        2. Every decison forms our character-our willingess to follow God and our ablity to hear his call is dependent on the character we devlop over time

      8. Why is the Virtue of Chasity one of the most important virtues we can develop now?

        1. Chasity helps us contol our bodily or materal pleausre

          1. it reorients our desires in the way that God intended them

      9. What can we do to strength’s God’s life within us so as to ready our hearts for His call?

        1. Reception of sacraments, espically the eucharist and reconilliation are virtual to strength God’s life within us

          1. The more we frquently ask them the more closer we become with God, and the easier it will be to discern God’s call- as well as respond to it

      10. How do feelings of desolation and cosolation help us to discern a vocation?

        1. God’s will leave us feeling hopeful and at peace we would call this consolation

        2. God’s will should never leave us felling hopeless and desolate. this is desolation

        3. There is

        4. God’s will should never leave us feeling helpless and desolate. This fesolation

        5. Thee is a diffrenece between excited and nervous ness anexity and fear

      11. Why is living together as a couple never good way to discern marraige?

        1. The circumstance of cohabition can cause confusion and create temptation to sexual sin that cloud jundgement about the suitablity of a poential spouse

      12. How is sucess of a life lived a disciple of Christ diffrent from sucess measured by the eye of the world?

        1. The world meausres sucess though materlisn-money in the bank, possessions, followers on social media

        2. As christan we meausre sucess in the pursit of holiness, reciginzing our true happiness will oly be found in heave

      13. What is the real gift God gives to hummanity: the ability to love beyond natrual limits

        1. Signs of Controdiction

          1. It’s called a sign of contridiction” when the person makes a vow to follow a particular path or service for the rest of their lives.

            1. It’s called this because of a life of service to another person is a contradiction to the sprit

  • Men, Women, & the Mystery of Love

    • Intro

      • Siri’s book is based on the book Love and responsibility by St. John Paul II

      • Love and repsonsoblity was written in the late 1950’s when he was serving as a preist and iniversity proffessor in karkow it was published in 1960

      • it was a book on sexual ethics

    • Ch.1- Three kinds of friendship

      • Personalist principle- never treat people as mere instrament for acheving our own purpose. To do so is to violate the dignity of the person as a self-determing being

      • utiltarianism- to use others so that I can obtain pleausre

      • loving or using

        • once the utiltarianism attuides are adopted we begin to reduce people in our lives to object to use for our own enjoyment

      • Friendship of utiltiy

        • The affection is based on the benefit or use the relationship. each person gets simething out of the friendship that is to his or her advantage, and the mutal benefit of the relationship is what ubties two people as friends

      • pleasant freindship

        • The bias of affection is the pleausre one gets out of the relationdship. one see the friendship as a cause of some pleasure for himself or herself. the friendship id bssically primarily for the good times they expereince together

      • virtuous friendship

      • the patience pryamid

        • sex

        • marriage

        • engagment

        • courtship-exlusive

        • low risk daiting

        • virtuious friendship

        • getting to know someone

        • prayer, sacraments and virture

    • Ch.2- Beyond sexual urge

      • Insecurity. not love

        • A waring sign that one might be a uiltarian relationship is when one person is afraid to bring up diffrent topic or is afraid to adress problems in the relationship. sadlyy, deep down the couple knows thrre is no tru foundation to their relationship

      • Sexual urage vs. Sexual instinct

      • Authentic love- requires act of will directed towad the good of other person

        • Sexual urge

          • experienced as a bodily (physical and emotional (psychological) attraction to another person

          • the sexual urge can provide frame work for authenic love to develop

          • authentic love requries act of will directed toward the good of other person

        • Sexual instinct

          • Not the same as sexual instict found in animals

          • a person can rise above appetties for the sake of a high goal

        • sexual attraction

          • the person is in control of sexual urge and not the other way around

          • sexual attraction is something that happens to us, it begins to take place in oursleves or emotinal life without any intitaive on our part

          • we are responsible for what we declare to do in response to those interior strings

          • the secual urge is meant to orient us toward another person whos possess those attributes, not just the adtribute themsleves

    • Ch.3 Fatal Attractions

      • the anatomy of attraction

        • “to attract” means to be regared as a good

        • “to be attracted” means to percieve some value in a person, such as beauty virtue, personality, and to respond to that value

      • remeber the sexual urge

        • the tendency to seek the opposite sex

        • is oriented to physilogicaal qualites of a person of the opposite sex- their body and their masculinity or feminity

        • John Paul II calls these qualites the sexual value of a person

      • so, we are attracted someone of the opposite sex in two ways: physically and emotionally

        • sensudility-attraction to the boady physically and emotionally

        • sentimentality--emotional attraction physically and emotionally

    • Sensuality and sense

      • An inital sensual reaction is mean to orient us toward a personal communion not just a bodly union.

      • sensuality by iself is not love. on its own it can easily fall into utilarianism. we seperate the sprit or soulf of the person we are not looking at the whole person id the foucus is only on the sexual values, it will prevent from responding the value of the persone

      • sensuality

    • Ch.4 sense and sentimentality: the proper role

      • Sentimentality- this more of an emotional attraction between sexes

      • sentimental love keeps two people close, binds them

      • the question of truth

        • We have consider the truth about the other person and truth about the quality of relationship

      • relationship cycle

        • 1. attraction/inflaution

        • 2. confirmations of faults and differences

        • crisis of dissapointment, dissatsfaction, disillunionment

        • deciscen to seperate or accept and work through differences

        • chossing love

        • comminment

    • Ch.6 Trust and intimacy maturity

      • Trust is essential for personal intimacy

        • when we are hurt by someone we love, our acceptance and responsiblity for the other person is tested the most

      • Is your love mature?

        • immature love:

          • subject aspects is primary:

            • based on my feelings (sensual and emotional)

          • looking inward

            • at my own feelings

          • causes anexiety

            • because based on my unstalde feelings

          • eqoish (selfishness)

            • focused on my own sensual and emotinal/enjoyment

        • mature love

          • obect aspect is primary:

            • based on the truth oof the other person and my comminment to that person in self-giving love

          • looking onward: at other person as he really is

      • altruism (self giving): virtuouts friendship,self-giving, responsiblity for the other person

  • Deus Caritas est (God is love)

    • Pope Benedict XVI

      • 1st ebcyclical

      • 12/25/05

      • God is love

    • Love is action

      • Since God 1st loved us love is more than “command” it is a response to the gift of love

      • it’s the core of our christian faith

    • Many meaanings

      • the term “love” is frequently used and is often misuesed

      • love of country, profession etc..

    • 3 greek words for love

      • philia

      • agape

      • eros

    • philia

      • friendship love

      • used 2 times in John’s gospel to express the relationship with Jesus and his disciples

    • agape

      • new testment writers used this term most

      • pair with neighbor and caring for humamanity

    • eros

      • intosicating; divine madness

      • fouced in fertility cults and sacred prostiution

      • celabreated a divine power

      • the old testment opposed this form of relgion

      • its neither the sprit alon nor the body alone that loves- it’s the person, body, and sould, the whole person who loves here eros is love

    • eros and agape

      • If eros is reduced to just sex, it’s commodity something to be brought and sold and the oerson become commodity

      • In Jesus christ, who is the incarnte love of God, the eros-agape reaches its most radical form

      • by giving of himself on the cross Jesus express love in its most subline form

      • christian faith has always considered a man a unity in dubility body and sould

  • Old Testament song of songs

    • poetic form

      • orginally love song perhaps for jewish wedding feast meant to exualt conjural love

        • A love which involes real discovery of the other

        • love now becomes concern and care for other

    • genisis creation

      • eros- seekr adam, who left his mother and father to become 1

      • eros-direct man to marraige to a unquie and defintive love

      • marriage becomes the icon of the relationshop between God and humanity

      • through Jesus Crhist, this love bcome this union with God by sharing Jesus; self gift the sharing in his blood and body

    • Parable-last judggment

      • MT.ch.25 31-46

      • Love is the criterion for the definitive decision

      • a huamn life worth on lack there of

      • own eyes are open0we serve our neighbor

      • The Love of God and neighbor are inseperable they form a single commandment

        • As a community we must pratice love- love for the less founate and prayer to draw strength

        • we can love because we are created in this image and likeness

          • This foundational belief compels us to act justly and show compassion toward all, reflecting our faith in tangible ways through service and support.

    • the love of God and neighbor are inseperble they form a single commandment

    • Good Samaritain

      • Luke ch. 10 (25-37)

        • Concept of neighbor was “country man” on a close knit community of single country or people-the concept is now universal- to help everyone

  • Consecrated life

    • What does it mean to be consencreated

    • Define evangilcal conusels

    • What do each of the evanglical conseuls mean for consecreated

    • Who are our greatest two models?