Flashcards
~ Catholic Culture 5-6 ~
A statement of beliefs that the Apostles of Jesus
Christ taught. It is a summary of the most
important truths of Divine Revelation.
Apostle's Creed
Pg. 2, 6
Week 1
Divine Revelation
The truths revealed to us by God.
Week 1
Pg. 2
Something that we cannot fully understand with
our human minds.
Mystery
Week 1
Pg. 7
Something special or something that we notice
about a person or a thing.
Ex: John is patient.
Attribute
Week 1
Pg. 8
A spirit is a being that has understanding and free
will but no body.
A Spirit
Pg. 12
Week 2
Divine Providence
God's constant loving care fore us.
Pg. 12
Week 2
Patron Saint of Young People
St. John Bosco.
Pg. 12
Week 2
Three Persons in One God.
Holy Trinity
Week 2
Pg.
What do we mean by “person”?
Who someone is.
Pg. 15
Week 2
What do we mean by “nature”?
What someone is.
Pg. 15
Week 2
Material Things
The lowest level of God's creation.
Pg. 16
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Spiritual Beings
The highest level of God's creation.
Week 2
Pg. 16
Angels
Persons like us who can think and love, but they
have no bodies because they are pure, created
spirits. The have an intellect and free will.
Pg. 16
Week 2
Choirs
Groups of angels. There are 9 of these.
Pg. 16
Week 2
Purpose of the Angels
1. To worship, praise, and love God.
2. To serve human beings.
Week 2
Pg. 18
Mortal
Will die one day.
Week 3
The Soul
Pg. 20
The spiritual part of man which gives life to his
body.
Week 3
Pg. 20
1. Strong wills
2. Bright and clear intellects.
3. No suffering or death.
4. Friendship with God.
5. Harmony between all living things.
Before the “Fall”
Week 3
Pg. 20
What happened to our intellect and
will after the fall?
Week 3
Sin
Our will became week and our intellect was
darkened.
Pg. 23
A deliberate offence against the law of God.
Week 3
Actual Sin
Pg. 26
The sins that we commit. Personal sin.
Week 3
Pg. 26
Sin of Omission
When one sins by failing to do what one could
and should have done.
Pg. 26
Week 3
Grievous
Very serious or dreadful.
Week 4
Pg. 28
A grievous actual sin which kills the life of God in
one's soul.
Mortal Sin
There are 3 requirements for a sin to be of this type:
1. One must have full knowledge.
2. One must fully consent to the sin.
3. The sin itself must be seriously or gravely wrong.
Week 4
Pg. 28
A less serious offence against the law of God.
This type of actual sin weakens, but does not
completely destroy, the life of God in one's soul.
Venial Sin
Week 4
Pg. 30
When the second person of the Holy Trinity
became man. This happened at the time of the
Annunciation.
The Incarnation
Week 4
The Annunciation
Pg. 32
When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and
told her she was to be the mother of Jesus.
Week 4
Pg. 32
The Resurrection
When Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday.
Week 5
Grace
Pg. 38
A gift from God which we do not earn but which
He gives to us freely because He loves us.
Week 5
Sanctifying Grace
Pg. 42
The grace which is the life of God in our souls.
This is a lasting grace which is given to us at
baptism.
Week 5
Pg. 42
A temporary or passing supernatural help by God
in which He enlightens our minds and makes our
wills stronger. This type of grace helps us to stay
in the state of sanctifying grace.
Actual Grace
Pg. 42
Week 5
What 3 things do we receive at
Baptism?
Sanctifying Grace, the Theological Virtues, and
the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Week 6
Virtue
Pg. 46
A good habit.
Week 6
Pg. 46
The first theological virtue which helps us believe
in God and what He has revealed.
Faith
This is a virtue of the mind.
Pg. 46-47
Week 6
Virtues which we receive at Baptism and which
are directed towards God.
The Theological Virtues
There are three:
Faith
Hope
Charity
Pg. 48
Week 6
Gifts which we receive at Baptism and which help us to live
our Catholic Faith and practice virtue.
There are 7:
Wisdom
Understanding
Counsel
Fortitude
Knowledge
Piety
Fear of the Lord
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Week 6
Pg. 48-49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that makes us able to
judge correctly about the things of God. It also
helps us to desire the things of God rather than the
things of the world.
Wisdom
Week 6
Pg. 49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us to
understand more clearly the mysteries of our
Faith.
Understanding
Week 6
Pg. 49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us in
practical matters. This gift helps us give and
receive good advice.
Counsel
Week 6
Pg. 49
Fortitude
The gift of the Holy Spirit that keeps us strong in
the love of God no matter what stands in our way.
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Knowledge
Pg. 49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us to see God
in all of His creatures and to praise Him in them.
Week 6
Pg. 49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that makes us love and
reverence God and helps us to love all men as
children of God.
Piety
Week 6
Pg. 49
The gift of the Holy Spirit that involves loving
God so much that we fear offending Him by
committing sin.
Fear of the Lord
Pg. 49
Week 6
The Holy Catholic Church
The institution that Jesus Christ began, “the
community of all baptized persons who profess
the same true Faith, the same Sacrifice, and the
same sacraments, and who obey the Holy Father
and the bishops in union with him.”
The “Mystical Body of Christ.”
Pg. 50
Week 6
Special Powers of the Pope and
Bishops
Week 6
Teach, Sanctify, and Rule.
Pg. 50-51
The Four Marks of the Church
Week 7
One
One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
Pg. 58
All the members of the Church share the same
beliefs about God.
(the mark)
Week 7
Pg. 58
Firstly, the Church is founded on Jesus who is
perfectly good. Secondly, the Church contains the
means for us to become saints.
Holy
(the mark)
Week 7
Pg. 58
This means universal. The Church is universal
because it is meant for people of all time, places,
cultures, and backgrounds.
Catholic
No matter where you travel in the world, the faith
and worship is the same in the Catholic Church.
(the mark)
Week 7
Pg. 58
The Pope, bishops, and priests can trace their
origin through an unbroken line from the 12
apostles.
Apostolic
(the mark)
Week 7
The Communion of Saints
Week 8
Pg. 59
The closely united members of the Mystical Body
of Christ.
Pg. 60
The Church Triumphant
The Church Suffering
3 Divisions of the
Mystical Body of Christ
The Church Militant
Pg. 60
Week 8
The Church Militant
The faithful members of the Church on earth.
Pg. 60
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The saints in heaven.
The Church Triumphant
Week 8
Pg. 61
The Church Suffering
The holy souls in purgatory.
Week 8
The Particular Judgement
Week 8
Pg. 59
When we are judged by Jesus immediately after
we die.
Pg. 64
Also known as the general judgement. This is the
public and final judgement of all people
throughout history.
The Final Judgement
Week 8
Pg. 65
Hell
The place of terrible and eternal pain caused by
the separation from God.
Pg. 66
Week 8
“Amen”
“So be it.”
Week 8
Pg. 67
The First Commandment
I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have
strange gods before Me.
Week 10
The Second Commandment
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God
in vain.
Week 10
Remember, keep holy the Lord’s Day.
The Third Commandment
Week 10
Honour thy father and thy mother.
The Fourth Commandment
Week 10
Thou shalt not kill.
The Fifth Commandment
Week 10
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
The Sixth Commandment
Week 10
Thou shalt not steal.
The Seventh Commandment
Week 10
The Eighth Commandment
Week 10
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.
The Ninth Commandment
Week 10
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.
The Tenth Commandment
Week 10
The First 3 Commandments
The Commandments which are directed towards
God.
These are summarized by the First Great
Commandment.
Week 10
The Commandments which are directed towards
our neighbour.
The Last 7 Commandments
These are summarized by the
Second Great Commandment.
Week 10
1. “You shall love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”
The Two Great Commandments
2. “You shall love thy neighbour as thyself.”
Mark 12:30-31
Week 10
The little voice we have inside of us which tells us
to be good and avoid evil. This voice tells us
about the law of God which has been written on
our hearts. It is our job to protect, develop, and
listen to this voice.
Conscience
Week 10
Laws made by human government.
Civil Laws
These laws are supposed to be based on the Ten
Commandments.
Week 10
Who was the King who threw
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
into the fiery furnace?
Week 10
King Nebuchadnezzar
The order we should love:
What does J.O.Y. stand for?
Jesus
Others
Yourself
Week 10
What is God’s Name as revealed to
Moses?
I AM WHO AM
Week 11
The man who lead the Jewish people out of Egypt
and to whom God gave the Ten Commandments.
Moses
Week 11
The First Passover Supper
Week 11
The meal that the Jewish people ate in Egypt
before their escape. They spread blood of the lamb
over their doorposts so that the angel of death
would pass over them.
The journey of God’s people out of Egypt.
The Exodus
Week 11
The mountain on which God gave Moses the 10
Commandments.
Mount Sinai
Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on the
mountain.
Week 11
The Virtue of Religion
To give to God the worship He deserves.
Week 11
Idolatry
What are the 4 primary sins
against the first commandment?
Superstition
“Tempting” God
Sacrilege
Week 11
The sin of worshiping creatures as if they were
God.
Idolatry
Week 11
The sin of attributing to a creature a power that
belongs to God alone.
Superstition
Week 11
The sin of testing God’s power and
His love for us.
“Tempting” God
Ex: Reckless and careless behaviour.
(This is similar to the sin of presumption)
Week 11
The sin of damaging or abusing a holy person,
place, or thing.
Sacrilege
Going to communion when with a mortal sin on
one’s soul is a serious sin of sacrilege.
Week 11
Virtues which we do not work to obtain but which
are freely given to us.
Infused Virtues
Ex: The theological virtues.
Week 12
How do we adore God?
By prayer, sacrifice, attending Mass, and through
acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Week 12
To give up something precious to God.
Sacrifice
The most precious thing we can give up to God is
our wills.
(The desire to do what we want to do.)
Week 12
Doubt
Sins Against Faith
Participating in non-Catholic worship
Week 12
No, it is only a sin when we it is a deliberate act of
the will.
Is feeling doubt always a sin?
This is an opportunity which should prompt us to
make an Act of Faith
and to learn more about our Faith.
Week 12
The virtue by which we believe what God has
revealed to us.
Faith
Week 12
The virtue by which we trust that God will give us
the grace we need to reach heaven.
Hope
Week 12
Presumption
Sins Against Hope
Despair
Week 12
This sin can take one of two forms:
A) When someone thinks he will be saved by
his own effort without God’s grace.
Presumption
B) When someone thinks he will be saved by
God’s grace without any effort of his own.
Week 12
The sin of believing that God is not loving or
merciful enough to forgive him, or does not care
enough to save him.
Despair
Week 12
The virtue by which we love God above all things
for His own sake, and our neighbour as ourselves
for the love of God.
Charity
Week 13
Hate
Sins Against Charity
Envy
Scandal
Week 13
To wish evil or harm to another person.
Hate
Week 13
Anger which is directed at an evil done but does
not involve hatred towards a sinner.
Righteous Anger
Righteous anger is under the control of reason and
is not a sin.
Week 13
A state of mind in which you are sad or jealous or
resentful because some person has something that
you want.
Envy
Week 13
Sloth
The sin of laziness of body or soul.
Week 13
The Capitol (Deadly) Sins
The seven sins which are the chief sources of the
evil we commit.
Week 13
An attitude or behaviour which leads another to
do evil.
Scandal
Week 13
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