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The Church

Dive into the essentials of the Church and sacraments, exploring holiness, priesthood, vocation, liturgy, and more in the life of believers.

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The Church

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  1. The Church Sacrament of Salvation

  2. The Church Chapter 6

  3. Chapter 6 The Church in the Lives of the Faithful

  4. Chapter Objectives The student will be able to understand: • Our proper response to the gift of faith • The People of God • The common and ministerial priesthood • The vocation of the laity • The universal call to holiness • The liturgy • The liturgical year • Sacraments and human nature • Baptism • Confirmation • The Eucharist • Penance continued

  5. Chapter Objectives The student will be able to understand: • Anointing of the Sick • Holy Orders • Matrimony • Prayer • Types of prayer • Mortifications • Evangelization • Vocations in the Church • The Christian family • Sanctification and work • The apostolate of the laity • The responsibility of the laity in public life • The main forms of consecrated life today.

  6. Keys to Chapter 6 • Every Christian is called to holiness. • In the liturgy, we participate in the mysteries of Christ’s life • The Sacraments are God’s way of giving us his divine life in a very human way. • Holiness is to be lived in all the ordinary details of our everyday lives. • Some Christians are called to live as if they were not in this world, by means of the evangelical counsels.

  7. For Discussion: • What is the common priesthood of the faithful? • What is the role of the laity in the Church? • How do we respond to the call of Christ? • What is the universal call to holiness? • What is our basis for stating that Christ instituted the Seven Sacraments? • What is the meaning of the Latin term ex opere operato?

  8. For Discussion: • What is the role of prayer in the Christian life? • What is the liturgical year? • What does it mean to be an apostle? • How can we participate in the missionary activity of the Church? • What is the consecrated life?

  9. The Priesthood of the People of God Lesson Objectives Our proper response to the gift of faith The People of God The common and ministerial priesthood The vocation of the laity

  10. The Priesthood of the People of God Basic Questions What is the proper response to the gift of faith? • Our proper response to God’s gift of faith is to trust in him and believe in the truths he has revealed, because God can neither deceive nor be deceived.

  11. The Priesthood of the People of God Basic Questions Who are the People of God? • The Church is the People of God, the communion of all the faithful in Christ, composed of men of every race and nation, on a pilgrimage of holiness and redemption.

  12. The Priesthood of the People of God Basic Questions What is the difference between the common and the ministerial priesthood? • All members of the Church share in the common priesthood of the faithful and are called by virtue of their Baptism to offer their lives to God. Some members of the Faithful are ordained to the ministerial priesthood for the service of the rest.

  13. The Priesthood of the People of God Basic Questions What is the vocation of the laity? • The vocation of the laity is to seek the Kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and by ordering them according to the plan of God.

  14. Focus Question • Are the relationships among the members of the Church essentially equal or unequal? • The Christian faithful are truly equal in regard to dignity and activity, according to each one’s condition and function.

  15. Focus Question • What is the reason that Christians fall short of their calling? • Concupiscence, the human inclination to sin that results from Original Sin, often clouds our discernment, distorts our intellect, and weakens our will. Thus, all people sin and fall short of our call to holiness.

  16. Focus Question • How do we live our faith faithfully? • By conscientiously devoting ourselves to personal holiness in service to God and neighbor.

  17. Focus Question • What was the source of St. Peter’s faith in Jesus Christ? • It was a gift from God, coming not from “flesh and blood” but from Christ’s “Father, who art in heaven.”

  18. Focus Question • What is the response that the gift of faith requires of us? • God’s gift of faith requires from us the human act of trust in God and believing in the truths he reveals.

  19. Focus Question • On what authority should we believe what God reveals? • We believe not because “revealed truths appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason.” Rather, we believe “because of the authority of God himself who reveals them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived.” • Extension: This is not to say that revealed truths are in any way opposed to human reason.

  20. Focus Question • What does St. Peter mean when he says that the new People of God would be born “not from flesh, but from water and the Holy Spirit”? • He means that they would not be God’s people because they are natural descendants of Abraham but because they would receive the Sacrament of Baptism.

  21. Focus Question • Why are the People of God a pilgrim Church? • The Church is a group of believers on a journey toward God, seeking holiness and redemption.

  22. Graphic Organizer • Complete the following table to clearly articulate the three distinct vocations.

  23. Guided Exercise • Conduct a think/pair/share using the following question: • What is the relationship between the Church as the People of God and the Church as a hierarchical body?

  24. Focus Question • What is the Magisterium? • The Magisterium is the teaching authority given by Christ to his Apostles and now vested in their successors, the Pope and the bishops in union with him, who teach the truths of the Faith on the basis of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.

  25. Focus Question • What is the simplest meaning of the Church as the People of God? • The Church as the People of God means the communion of all the faithful in Christ.

  26. Focus Question • What is the Old Testament counterpart to the Church as the People of God? • In the Old Testament, the Israelites were God’s Chosen People.

  27. Focus Question • Where is the New Testament teaching of the Church as the People of God found? • It is taught in the First Epistle of St. Peter.

  28. Focus Question • Ethnically, who makes up the New Covenant People of God? • It is a race of Jews and Gentiles unified by the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ. • Extension: • In other words, any human being can be a member.

  29. Guided Exercise • Free write on how the following quote of Christ (quoting Isaiah) can apply to you. • “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Lk 4:18-24)

  30. Focus Question • What were the two priesthoods found in the Old Testament? • In the Old Testament, God said that all of Israel would be “a kingdom of priests.” He also established elders and an order of priests, the Levites, to offer sacrifices on behalf of this people.

  31. Focus Question • According to Hebrews, what is the “job” of a priest? • Priests are called by God “to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.”

  32. Focus Question • What are the two levels of the priesthood in the Church? • There is a common priesthood shared by all the faithful and a ministerial priesthood of ordained leaders at the service of the faithful.

  33. Focus Question • What is the basis of the priesthood in the Church? • Both the common priesthood of all the faithful and the ministerial priesthood participate in the one priesthood of Christ.

  34. Focus Question • How do we live out the common priesthood of the faithful? • We live as priests by offering our lives as a living sacrifice to God for the salvation of others and ourselves.

  35. Focus Question • According to the Catechism, what is the relationship between the common priesthood and the ministerial priesthood? • The common priesthood is the unfolding of one’s own baptismal grace. The ministerial priesthood is the unfolding of the baptismal grace of all Christians by which Christ builds up and leads his Church.

  36. The Universal Call to Holiness and the Liturgy Lesson Objectives The universal call to holiness The liturgy The liturgical year

  37. The Universal Call to Holiness and the Liturgy Basic Questions What is the universal call to holiness? • All Christians in every state of life are called to holiness, which is the fullness of the Christian life and the perfection of charity.

  38. The Universal Call to Holiness and the Liturgy Basic Questions What is the liturgy? • The Liturgy is the Church’s official public worship—the worship of God by the People of God.

  39. The Universal Call to Holiness and the Liturgy Basic Questions What is the liturgical year? • The liturgical year is the calendar of observances that celebrates the entire life of Christ, beginning in Advent and ending the last Sunday before Advent.

  40. Focus Question • What is the universal call to holiness? • It is God’s call to each member of the Church, regardless of the circumstances of his or her life, to become a saint.

  41. Focus Question • When Jesus said, “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” what did he mean? • He meant that we are to aspire to greater and greater holiness. All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity.

  42. Focus Question • Does the universal call to holiness mean lay people should do more Church-related activities? • To seek holiness as a member of the laity includes Church-related activities but also refers to our everyday, secular activities.

  43. Graphic Organizer • Brainstorm reasons why some people might say that St. Gianna should have had an abortion.

  44. Focus Question • What was Gianna’s vocation? • It was to be a wife, mother, and doctor, especially one serving mothers with young children.

  45. Focus Question • What dilemma did Gianna face in 1961? • She was pregnant and discovered she had cancer. Her doctors recommended she have an abortion so she could have surgery to save her own life.

  46. Focus Question • What was Gianna’s response to this “problem?” • She opted to try to save the life of her unborn baby rather than her own if it was really going to be either one or the other.

  47. Focus Question • What was the result of Gianna’s decision? • She died soon after giving birth to her healthy daughter.

  48. Focus Question • How was St. Gianna’s life a martyrdom? • She laid down her life for another, just as Christ did.

  49. Guided Exercise • Conduct a think/pair/share using the following question: • According to Avery Cardinal Dulles, how does Christ exercise his threefold office as prophet, priest, and king in the liturgy of the Mass?

  50. Focus Question • What are two basic types of prayer practiced in the Christian life? • Christians gather for communal, liturgical prayer and worship; and • They participate in personal, individual prayer.

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