Called to be Another Christ

Chapter 6Our Lady of Lourdes High School

Mrs. Safford Grade 10

The Universal Call to Holiness

What is the history of Salvation? What is the universal call to holiness?

Questions to Think About…

The history of salvation can be seen as creation in holiness, fall from grace, Christ’s objective redemption, and the subjective redemption to each one of us.

What is the History of Salvation?

God calls each person to holiness through one’s own personal cooperation with God’s freely offered grace.

Video: What’s God’s Plan for me?

What is the universal call to holiness?

Write on a separate sheet of paper the following Vocabulary words: Actual Grace Beatitudes Christian discipleship Conscience Gifts of the Holy Spirit Grace Law of Love Natural Law Precepts of the Church Saint Sanctification Theological Virtue Universal Call to Holiness

Vocabulary

Beginning to Live Holiness in the World

What are the kinds and purposes of grace? What is the common priesthood of the laity? What is the vocation of the laity? How is Christian morality an imitation of

Christ? What is conversion of heart?

Questions to Think About…

God gives us sanctifying and actual graces so that we may answer his call to holiness.

Sanctifying grace us a stable disposition of the soul that we receive in Baptism by which we share in the life and love of the Blessed Trinity.

Actual grace refers to all the particular, transient helps God gives us in the circumstances of our lives which allows us to conform to his will.

What are the kinds and purposes of grace?

By Baptism, all Christians, including the laity, share in the common priesthood of the faithful, called to offer their lives to God as a spiritual sacrifice.

What is the common priesthood of the laity?

The vocation of the laity is to sanctify ordinary life.

What is the vocation of the laity?

Christian morality is an imitation of the attitudes and actions of Christ, the perfect man and model.

Video: Isn’t Church to Restrictive?

How is Christian morality an imitation of Christ?

To be a disciple of Christ, we must undergo a conversion of heart to love as Christ loves.

It means aligning one’s heart and will with Christ’s so that we love as Christ loves, and hate what Christ hates.

Basically, Christ loves people, and hates sin. Some of the hardest conversion of heart is

loving people despite their faults and loving one’s enemies.

What is conversion of heart?

The Laws of Morality

What is the relationship between natural law, the Decalogue, and Law of Christ?

What are the Beatitudes? What are the Precepts of the Church?

Questions to Think About…

All men are obliged to obey the natural law. (Objective order by God that determines the requirements for humans to thrive and reach fulfillment.

The Ten Commandments are a Revelation of the natural law for the Chosen People.

Christians obey the Ten Commandments as perfected by Christ. For example, the fifth commandment forbids injuring someone by murder. The Law of Christ seeks to give us a heart that does not harbor angry resentment against the murderer, but to foster an active love of neighbor in word and deed, including our enemies.

What is the relationship between the natural law, the Decalogue,

and the Law of Christ?

The Beatitudes are paradoxical statements of the true values that a disciple of Christ should possess.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10

What are the Beatitudes?

The Precepts of the Church are changeable laws which a Catholic obeys to draw closer to Christ.

1. You shall attend Mass on Sundays and all Holy Days of Obligation and rest from servile labor.

2. You shall confess your sins at least once a year.3. You shall receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist

at least during the Easter season.4. You shall observe the days of fasting and

abstinence established by the Church.5. You shall help provide for the needs of the Church.

What are the Precepts of the Church?

The Theological Values of Faith and

Hope

What is faith? What are the sins against faith? What is hope? What are the sins against hope?

Questions to Think About…

Faith is the theological virtue by which God and all that he has said and revealed to us, and that Holy Church proposes for our belief.

The sins against faith are:1. Voluntary doubt-intentionally calling into question

the truth of some aspect of Divine Revelation.2. Schism-refusal to submit to the authority of the Pope

or the Bishops, who are in communion with him.3. Heresy-denial of a baptized person of one or more of

the tenets of faith.4. Apostasy- A total repudiation of the Catholic faith.5. Atheism-Denial of the existence of God.

What is faith? What are the sins against faith?

Hope is the theological virtue by which we look forrward to the happiness of external life with God, trusting that God will give us the graces necessary to achieve it.

The sins against hope are:1. Despair-the loss of trust in God because of

doubt in his fidelity or his interest in each of us.

2. Presumption-the expectation of salvation without personal effort or without God’s help.

What is hope?What are the sins against hope?

The Theological Virtue of Charity and the Gifts of the

Holy Spirit

What is charity? What are the sins against charity? What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit? What are the fruits of the Holy Spirit?

Questions to Think About…

Charity is the theological virtue by which a person loves God above all things and loves his neighbor as himself.

The sins against charity include:1. Indifference-refusal to reflect on the prior goodness

of divine charity, resulting in a lack of commitment to exercise the faith.

2. Lukewarmness-failure or hesitation to respond to God’s love.

3. Acedia-refusal of the joy that God gives 4. Hatred of God-opposes the love of God, denies his

goodness, and curses him as the one who forbids sin, and inflicts punishment.

What is Charity?What are the sins against Charity?

The gifts of the Holy Spirit, given in Baptism, are:

1. Wisdom-enjoying the presence of God2. Understanding-discerning divine truths3. Counsel-making wise decisions4. Fortitude-having strength of character5. Knowledge-using created things wisely6. Piety-knowing God as Abba or Father7. Fear of the Lord-serving God faithfully

What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit?

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are any supernatural acts that are performed easily, with peace and joy, flowing from the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

What are the fruits of the Holy Spirit?

From You Tube: “What’s God Plan for Me” Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Uploaded on October 25, 2012. http://youtu.be/AK2O_e-kxZ0

“Isn’t Church to Restrictive?” Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Uploaded on July 12, 2013 http://youtu.be/xxA_Mh68SHg

Armenio, Rev. Peter. The Mystery of Redemption and Christian Discipleship. 1st ed. Woodridge: Midwest Theological Forum, 2010.

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