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Understanding the Purpose of Man

Discover the divine plan for mankind to glorify, know, and love God through Christian teachings about origin, identity, and eternal destiny. Learn the importance of belonging to the Church and embracing the path to Heaven.

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Understanding the Purpose of Man

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  1. 01 The goal of man: to give glory to God, to know Him and to love Him

  2. Compendium of the Catechism • 1. What is the plan of God for man? • 1-25 • God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. In the fullness of time, God the Father sent his Son as the Redeemer and Savior of mankind, fallen into sin, thus calling all into his Church and, through the work of the Holy Spirit, making them adopted children and heirs of his eternal happiness.

  3. To be a Chistian: belong to a family • Baptism is like a second birth, which introduces us into the great family of the Church. • We should be proud to belong to the family of the Church. • The Church teaches us many things, which are in fact the most important ones, the ones that matter most. GRECO, El The Baptism of Christ (detail) 1608-28 Hospital Tavera, Toledo

  4. Main ideas

  5. 1. Why are we here on Earth • We Christians have had the chance to know our purpose here on Earth: Jesus preached this and the Church teaches it. • Response to the fundamental questions: • where do I come from? • who am I? • where am I going to?

  6. 2. Where do we come from • God has created man freely. • God has created man in order that he may take part in His beatific life, in His own happiness. • Each man has been created by God, with the cooperation of his parents: WE COME FROM GOD. MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Creation of Adam (detail) 1510 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican

  7. 3. Who are we • God is close to man everytime and everywhere: God calls him and helps him to find Him. • We have been created into the image and likeness of God. • Adopted children of God through Baptism. • I AM SON OF GOD. EYCK, Jan van The Ghent Altarpiece: Adam (detail) 1425-29 Oil on wood Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent

  8. 4. Where are we going • God has created man to communicate His love, so that man can serve Him freely in this life and enjoy His company for ever in Heaven. • Where are we Chistians going? TO HEAVEN. • If we do not achieve this goal, our life would have been a failure. BACKER, Jacob de The Last Judgement c. 1580 O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp

  9. 5. What is the purpose of man • To give glory to God, to manifest the goodness and love of the Creator. • God has no other reason for creating. • Man is the object of God’s love, and responds by loving Him. The happiness of man lies in this.

  10. 6. We should get to know the Christian doctrine • We must know the teaching of Jesus Christ, since He is: • Our God. • Our Teacher. • Our Model. • His teachings show us the way to get to know and love God, to be happy on this Earth and afterwards eternally in the next. RAFFAELLO Sanzio St Paul Preaching in Athens 1515 Victoria and Albert Museum, London

  11. 7. Main parts of the Christian doctrine • The truths of our faith, in THE SYMBOL OF THE FAITH or the CREDO . • How our Christian faith is celebrated, in THE LITURGY and THE SACRAMENTS. • What God wants us to do in order to be happy and make others happy, in CHRISTIAN MORALS and THE COMMANDMENTS. • The meaning and the importance of prayer, the PRAYER IN CHRISTIAN LIFE. Codex ManesseSchulmeister von Esslingen

  12. Resolutions for Christian life

  13. Resolutions to move forward • To put effort in getting to know well and in putting into practice the Christian doctrine. • Aside from other moments throughout the day, to make the sign of the cross –the sign of the Christian- upon getting up and before going to bed.

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