The identity of the catholic church flashcards

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  • Prayer before study

  • Asking for understanding, memory, and clarity in expressing oneself

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  • Learning competencies:

    • Describe and analyze the roles of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Church

    • Acknowledge the Holy Spirit in our lives to remain faithful to Jesus' mission

    • Meditate on the faith of early Christians and the Church's effort to remain faithful to Jesus' mission

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  • Key understandings:

    • The Church is the instrument of God's love and grace

    • We are the modern-day saints and martyrs the world needs

    • The Church is in the process of being One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

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  • Images are powerful means of providing insights into realities

  • Our image helps people know and understand us

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  • Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas (National Museum of the Philippines)

  • Abasa ng Aksyon (Reading of the Passion)

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  • Holy Week procession of life-size images depicting the passion of Jesus Christ

  • Processions held on Holy Wednesday and Good Friday

  • Images usually owned by well-known families

  • People come to join or witness the procession

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  • Discussing practices in the present time that were not observed in the past

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  • Visita Iglesia: Filipino Catholics vow to visit seven churches during Holy Week

  • Tradition derived from a 16th-century Roman tradition led by St. Philip Neri

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  • Mall culture and celebrating Mass in malls

  • Cardinal Tagle's aim to teach balance in life and encourage a Eucharistic lifestyle

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  • Evangelization happening in Philippine shopping malls, according to Cardinal Tagle

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  • Expressing personal views about the Church as a community of holy men and women

  • Four basic questions: What is the Church? Who are the holy men and women? What does the "Communion of Saints" mean? Why is church attendance important?

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  • Sacred Scriptures: Matthew 16:13-20

  • Jesus as the builder and owner of the Church

  • Believers in obedient response to the gospel become members of the Church

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  • Sto. Domingo Church

  • Manaoag Church

  • Vatican Church

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  • The origin and growth of the Church

  • The Father's role in planning the Church

  • Preparation throughout the history of Israel and the Old Covenant

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  • Genesis 22: God testing Abraham's faith

  • God's promise to bless Abraham and make his offspring numerous

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  • Two levels of interpretations: descendants of Abraham and spiritual descendants of Abraham

  • Galatians 3:14 - Gentiles receiving the promise of the Spirit through faith in Jesus

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  • Definition of the Catholic Church: the assembly of all who believe in Jesus Christ

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  • Qahal: Hebrew word for the gathering of the people

  • Calling of Abraham and electing of Israel as God's people

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  • Ekklesia: Greek equivalent of Qahal, meaning "to call out of"

  • Latin - ecclesia: an assembly called by God

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  • Kyriake: means "what belongs to the Lord"

  • Stresses the belongingness of the assembly to the Lord

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  • The Church claims to be a faith-assembly called by God to share His divine goodness and love in Christ

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  • John 10:10 - Jesus came to give abundant life

  • Christ's death on the Cross restored our relationship with the Father

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  • The Christian Community as a community of disciples following Christ's way of loving God and one another

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  • Acts 2:42-47 - Devotion to apostles' instruction, communal life, breaking of bread, prayers, and sharing

  • One heart and mind, sharing possessions, and growth in numbers

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  • Christian community as the Church, where people experience belongingness and grow in faith

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  • Common understanding of the Church for Filipino Catholics: a building, a social organization, or the hierarchy

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  • The meaning of Church is not restricted to a building but includes churchgoers, workers, and social groupings

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  • The gathering of the People of God started when sin destroyed communion with God and among people

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  • The first gathering started with the calling of Abraham and electing Israel as God's people

  • God aimed at restoring our original belongingness to Him

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  • Three-fold mission of the Church in relation to God's Reign: (not mentioned in the transcript)

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  • Three-fold Mission of the Church in relation to God's Reign

    • Kerygma - (Proclamation)

      • Proclaim the Gospel and make the memory of Jesus alive in words and signs

      • Remind the people of His continuous presence in the world

    • Koinonia - (Community Fellowship)

      • Need of friendship and social relationship

    • Diakonia - Servant

      • Serve those who are in need, especially the poor, sick, and dying

  • Community of faith

    • United in one faith, one belief

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  • How should we understand the Church?

    • Church is a MYSTERY and a SACRAMENT

      • Not something we can't know nor understand, but a reality we can never fully grasp

      • Always more to learn

    • Church is a MYSTERY

      • Corporate presence of God in Christ

      • Unity created and sustained by the Holy Spirit

      • Physical presence, bodily presence

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  • Church is a MYSTERY

    • Our very nature can never be grasped by the power of reason alone

    • Hidden in God and can never be known unless revealed by God Himself

    • Mystery by reason of:

      • Origin in the Father's plan of salvation

      • Ongoing life in the Risen Christ and the Spirit

      • Ultimate goal in the fully achieved Kingdom of God

    • God Himself is a mystery who moves, inspires, and guides the Church

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  • Church is a mystery

    • Reality imbued with the hidden presence of God

    • Always open to new and ever greater exploration (Pope Paul VI)

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  • Father

    • Origin in the father's plan of salvation

  • Son

    • One mediator

    • Ongoing life in the Risen Christ

    • Redemptive mission of the Son

  • Holy Spirit

    • Dwells in the church and in the hearts of the faithful

    • Sanctifying work of the Spirit

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  • Church as a Sacrament

    • By her relationship with Christ, the church is:

      • A sacramental sign

      • An instrument of intimate union with God

      • The unity of all mankind

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  • Church as a Sacrament

    • Tangible sign of Christ's presence in the world

    • Beacon of light visible to all and drawing them in the power of the spirit to communion with God and with one another in Christ

  • Church as a Sacrament

    • Acts 13:47, Mt 5:14-16

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  • Visible symbol of God's continued presence among us

    • Brought by Jesus reaches us through the church, which is empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the means of salvation

  • Instrument for the Redemption of all

  • Church - Universal Sacrament of Salvation

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  • Read: 1 Corinthians 12:4-13

  • Based on the letter of St. Paul, how can we help make the Church, the Body of Christ, healthy and truly alive?

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  • What are the Scriptural images of the Church according to Vatican II?

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  • How does the Scripture picture the Church?

    • KINGDOM OF GOD

      • Christ inaugurated His Church by preaching the coming of God's Kingdom

      • Parables: treasure hidden in a field, leaven raising a dough, tiny mustard seed growing into a tall tree, fishnet catching the good and the bad

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  • THE PEOPLE OF GOD

    • God willed to make men holy and save them by making them into a single people

    • 1 Peter 2:9 - You are chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation

    • John 3:3,5 - Those who believe in Christ, who are reborn through the Word of the living God

    • Matthew 5:13 - To be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, its salvation

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  • THE BODY OF CHRIST

    • By communicating His Spirit to his brothers and sisters, called together from all peoples, Christ made them mystically into his own body

    • Christ's body can refer to the physical body of the historical Jesus, assumed at the incarnation (John 1:14)

    • His Eucharistic body, making sacramentally present to us the Person of the Risen Christ in his saving sacrifice

    • His mystical body, the Church, the faithful united to Christ as their Head, and united and vivified by His Spirit

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  • THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

    • As Christ is the Head of the Church, so is the Holy Spirit its soul

    • The body is one and has many members, but all the members, many though they are, are one body, and so it is with Christ

    • It was in one Spirit that all of us...were baptized into one body (1 Corinthians 1:12-13)

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  • Essential characteristics of the Church

    • MARKS OF THE CHURCH

      • ONE

        • Faith, truth, moral living, doctrines, leadership, government, and worship

        • One source (the Holy Trinity), one founder (Jesus Christ), one soul (the Holy Spirit)

        • Ecumenical religious services participated by various beliefs assembled with diverging faith under one ceremony

      • HOLY

        • Sanctification through Christ

        • God's steadfast presence

        • Includes sinners, "the sinless one made up of sinners"

        • Holiness shines in the saints and martyrs

        • All are called to holiness in accordance to one's vocation and profession of faith

      • CATHOLIC

        • Universal, for all people, for all times, and in all places

        • Continuity of doctrines and fullness of relationship

        • Commitment to the global good, universal demand for justice, peace, sharing of goods, and equality

      • APOSTOLIC

        • Founded by Christ upon the apostles as Pillars

        • Hierarchical led by the Pope, as the successor of Peter

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  • "COMMUNION OF SAINTS"

    • The Church

    • All faithful form one body, the good of each is communicated to the others

    • The riches of Christ are communicated to all the members, through the Sacraments

    • Communion in holy things and among holy persons

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  • CHURCH TRIUMPHANT (canonized saints)

  • SUFFERING (faithful departed who have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again)

  • PILGRIMS (Militant)

    • At work on earth

    • God is at work in us

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  • The Church is a "communion of saints"

    • Refers to "holy things" (sancta), especially the Eucharist

    • Represents and brings about the unity of believers in Christ

    • Refers to the communion of "holy persons" (sancti) in Christ

    • What each person does or suffers in and for Christ bears fruit for all

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  • The Church has four essential qualities: one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic

  • These qualities are given by Christ to the Church through the Holy Spirit

  • Every Christian has a calling to become a missionary

  • As a Catholic Christian, one should share in the Church's mission of evangelization

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  • Pope Francis expresses his thoughts on changing the Roman Catholic Church in his document "Evangelii Gaudium"

  • The document contains five key ideas for bringing changes to the Church

    • Find new ways to evangelize

    • Recognize the threat of consumerism to Christianity

    • Recover enthusiasm for evangelism

    • Preaching the good news should be a priority

    • Prioritize the poor, disadvantaged, and overlooked in hearing the good news

  • If one were the pope, they should introduce changes to the Church based on these ideas

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  • Supplementary lesson on the meaning of evangelization, call for renewal, dimensions of faith, Vatican II, and PCP II

  • Questions about the renewals made by the Church in history, the concept of new evangelization, the response of the Philippines to the call for renewal, and the vision and mission thrust of PCP II

  • Images of the Renewed Church

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  • The Church needs genuine witnesses whose lives have been transformed by meeting Jesus

  • The Church needs saints, and all are called to holiness

  • Pope John Paul II's call to holiness

  • Five steps that people can take to become holy