-
Characteristics of the original state of man:
- -created to share in God's love & friendship
- -given preternatural virtues
- -created in a state of holiness and justice
-
How Original Sin came into the world:
- -Adam & Eve tempted from Satan
- -promised Eve she would become like God with the knowledge of good and evil
-
The promise Satan gave to Eve:
promised Eve she would become like God with the knowledge of good and evil
-
The difference between the sin of Adam and Eve and all subsequent sins:
deliberate choise vs. weakness of soul & inclination to sin
-
Several consiquences of original sin:
- loss of holiness and justice
- loss of friendship with God
- expelled from Garden of Eden
- sin came into the world
- suffering and death
- human mind & human will damaged
- left human nature in wounded condition
-
Differnce between Stewardship and Ownership:
- stewardship: to look after; to take care of; God made us stewards
- ownership: possestion
-
Several examples of how we are responsible and irresponsible stewards of the earth:
- responsible: saving people; recycle; go to church; be respectful to everyone
- irresponsible: murder; waste resourses; littering; denying your faith
-
The mission or vocation, that God gave to Adam and Eve
share in God's love and friendship
-
The wounds of original sin and the virtues associated with each wound:
Malice
Ignorance
Weakness
Concupiscence
- Malice: inclines the will to sin & weakens the will (Justice)
- Ignorance: impeded ability to discern truth (Prudence)
- weakness: causes a person to avoid effort or diffculties (fortitude)
- concupiscence: fosters appetite to escape the dominion of reason (Temperance)
-
How Original Sin is transmitted and how it gets erased:
- transmited through human propaganda (at time of conception)
- since every human person receives their nature from Adam, we also share in Adam's fallen state
- in need of redemption
- erased through baptism
-
what angels are:
- spiritual beings (no bodies)
- posseses intelligence and will
- immortal
-
the pourpose of angles:
to serve God
-
Only angel refered to as an Archangel in the Bible:
Michael
-
in Daniel 10:13 is refered to as a Prince
Michael
-
Appered to Tobias in the book of Tobit
Raphael
-
Isreal's gaurdian angel
Michael
-
spiritual sense: most immediate and direct meaning of the text
Literal
-
three main spiritual senses:
- allegorical
- moral
- anagogical
-
shows how people and events in salvation history parallel future people or events
Allegorical
-
Interprets the heroes of scripture as models for life
moral
-
makes known knowledge of heaven through the events of Sacred Scripture
Anagogical sense
-
tiller of the ground
cain
-
-
How did God react to Abels death
- di not abandon Cain
- protected Cain
-
After Abel died, Eve gave birth to:
Seth
-
what were the sins of Seth?
- descendents of Seth & Cain intermarrried
- cause humans to be dominated by weakness
- God punished them by shortning their life
-
alliances between God and a particular person, people, or nation
covenants
-
People with covenants
- Noah
- Abraham
- Issac
- Jacob
- David
- Mosses
-
10 Commanments in order
- 1. I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
- 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- 3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
- 4. Honor your father and your mother.
- 5. You shall not kill.
- 6. You shall not commit adultery.
- 7. You shall not steal.
- 8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- 9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
- 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
-
the visit of the angel Gabriel to the virgin savior
annunciation
-
making amens for an offense through a voluntary action that gets rid of injustice
Atonment
-
Latin for 'let it be done'; Mary's respone to God when he told her to be the mother of Jesus
Fiat
-
special messanger of God to Mery at Annunciation
Gabriel
-
Mary's conception preserved from all Original Sin
Immaculate Conception
-
making right with God
justification
-
Gaspar, Melchoir, Balthasar
Magi
-
received an angelic message informing him that the child was the promised Messiah
Joseph's Annunciation
-
-
-
Prefigures the cross//
manger
-
the shroud//
swaddling clothes
-
the first to receive the news of Christ's birth//
Shepards
-
-
"house of bread"//
bethlehem
-
christ's divinity//
frenkincense
-
christ's eventual crusifiction//
myrrh
-
recognized Jesus as savior during the presintation:
St. Simeon; St. Anna
-
Albert the great is the patron saint of
scientists
-
Andrew is the patron saint of:
homemakers
-
Ann patron saint of
homemakers
-
-
-
Francis of Assisi
merchants and animals
-
-
Gregory the Great
singers & teachers
-
Joan of Arc
soldiers and France
-
-
Matthew
accountants and bankers
-
-
Theresa of Avila
headache sufferes
-
Therese of Lisieux
missionaries
-
|
|
