Ch. 1 Religion Test

a way of thinking that drives people apart from one another because each person makes up his own definition of self and the world. Such a person cannot listen or compromise. He is just "going it alone"

-the practice of an ever-increasing acquisition and consumption of goods

-too much of an obsession with acquiring or consuming things.

-Such a person forgets the generosity of God and the needs of other people.

-the belief that someone deserves certain privileges

-it becomes a problem if one believes he deserves a relationship with God without having to accept responsibility or commitment, such as going to Church

convocation (called with, or with calling) or assembly. Translates to the Latin ecclesia and from Greek ek-ka-lein, meaning to "call out of". People are literally called from their isolation to togetherness. "In the Church, God is 'calling together' his people from all the ends of the Earth" (CCC, 751)

1. God wants to come to us as members of his family.

2. We have to hear the Good News from others. No one can preach the Gospel to him/herself.

3. Humans are social in nature. We need the encouragement of others that the Church provides.

4. Worship of God is communal in nature. It is the whole Church who celebrates the liturgy on earth. Christ is present with the Church in worship, acting as the Head of his Mystical Body.

5. By participating in the Eucharist, we unite ourselves with Christ's self-offering.

6. As the Scripture teaches, Christ uses the Church's liturgy to prepare you to see him in one another and to love one another despite the differences of race, gender, and personality.

7. The Church is structured and instituted by Christ to provide a means of grace through the Sacraments that guide us to our eternal destiny.

The Sacraments

In- in Carnes- meat or flesh

The Catholic Faith is rooted in faith in God who became incarnate in history in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Second Divine person of the Holy Trinity, true God and true man.

Incarnation: God becomes man. God takes on carnes or flesh of humanity! He died, rose again, and ascended into heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit. He stays with us through the Sacraments.

1. First twelve followers Jesus chose and sent to spread the gospel

2. They were present at Pentecost

3. They were the first bishops

This was the instruction given by Jesus to the 12 apostles (Mt. 28: 16-20) to spread the gospel to the world and to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. After Jesus rose from the dead, he said to the Apostles, "As the Father has sent me, so I send you." (Jn. 20:21) Today's bishops are the successors of the Apostles.

Lead us to God, come from God, and be an action of God.

also, matter, form, and a proper minister

"A visible sign of an invisible reality, a visible sign of invisible grace. "

According to Saint Augustine, when we receive the sacraments we both receive, meaning be given and accept the Sacrament and we also perceive, which means to realize and become aware that we have experienced this sacrament.

Jesus fully understands human nature and our need for signs that reminds us that someone loves and cares for us, much like Jim, in the story, needed to experience a final time in the presence of his friend. That is one of the principal reasons Christ left his church the sacraments, special symbols of God's love and important signs of grace and divine friendship.

Form are the words spoken during the sacrament.

Matter are the actions or elements present in the sacrament. They are what you do or use.

Someone to give the Sacrament to you. You cannot preach the gospel to yourself. This is a bishop, priest, or deacon.

Baptism, Penance and Reconciliation, Eucharist, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick

The term Sacrament applies to Jesus Christ, the great sign of love of God the father for us.

An outward sign of an invisible grace. It brings about the spiritual effect or reality to which it points.

The term sacrament applies to the church, and outward sign of Christ's continuing, invisible presence in the world.

Individualism only becomes a problem what drives people apart from one another. When this happens, the individual creates his or her own definition of self and the world. The person may not be willing to listen or dialogue with others. Perpetuating the value of "going it alone "modern media and culture have sometime celebrated the more romantic types of individualism. Think about the " heroic loner "you have seen in film or on television with Nora's people in authority and institutions, and please buy his own rules.

God created a good world to sustain us. Consumerism turns the goodness that God has provided it is packaged product's coat quote or material goods for personal enjoyment, with little or no reminder of the generosity of God or the effect on others. Consumerism also Fosters and "upgrading mentality" . To understand, just think of the frequent cell phone upgrades many people seem to require. Put simply, From a consumer's perspective is easy to think of religion and religious experience as a kind of product to be so consumed with the thought of its connectedness to it's tradition and doctrine or to faith.

As the body is one though it has many parts, and all parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. (1 Cor. 12:12) st. Paul explains that just as the various parts of the human body—arms legs ears eyes etc.— they rely on one another to function as a human body, so the members of the church must rely on one another if they are to live as God intended.

It is a tendency to close ourselves off from others; God convokes cause us to come out of it; instead of it; God calls us to belong to his family and to see others as brothers and sisters; we are brought out of it by Eucharist so that we may follow God together; it leads to indifference toward those who are in need; it is seen in a culture of selfishness; it is not what builds up man or what leads to a better world

It has accustomed us to waste, even though throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry; it has created a new idols; it takes the form of the idolatry of money; it reduces man to one of his needs alone: consumption; it uses and then discard human beings; it informs a disposable culture which is now spreading