Christ Redeems through His Church

Grade 10 Chapter 5

Our Lady of Lourdes High School

KINGDOM OF GOD

Questions to Think About

• What was God’s plan for man• What is the Church?• What is the Kingdom of God?• What is the difference between subjective and

objective redemption?

What was God’s plan for man?

• God’s plan for man to share in his divine life existed before time and was inaugurated in time by creation.

• Salvation history reached its fullness in time with Christ and his Church, and will be fulfilled at he end of time when all have cooperated with grace are gathered together in the universal church.

What is the Church?

• The Church is the new assembly of God’s people, redeemed by Christ, and is the instrument of this redemption.

What is the Kingdom of God?

• The Kingdom of God is Christ acting in men’s hearts to bring them into communion with the Blessed Trinity.

What is the difference between objective and subjective redemption?

• All men are objectively redeemed by Christ’s sacrifice.

• However, this redemption has to be subjectively applied to the life of each individual, who may or may not respond to grace.

Questions to Think About

• How is the Kingdom of God like a mustard seed?

• Why is the Church “pilgrim”?

How is the Kingdom of God like a mustard seed?

• Like a mustard seed, the Church would begin small, and grow to be very large.

• In fact, the Church would spread throughout the world.

Why is the Church “pilgrim”?

• The Church as a whole and in her individual members is on a journey to Christ with whom it is already imperfectly united.

• Faith is needed to see the divine nature of the Church.

• The true nature of the Church will be seen when Christ returns to glory at the end of time.

Assignment

Write the following words on a piece of paper to hand in:• Apostolic Succession• Church• Elect• Final Judgment• Heaven• Hell• Indefectibility• Infallibility• Kingdom of God

Vocabulary Assignment (cont.)

• Magisterium• Marks of the Church• Mystical Body of Christ• Parable• Parousia• Pilgrim Church• Purgatory• Sacrament

This will count as a homework grade.

MYSTICAL BODY NECESSARY FOR SALVATION

Question to Think About

• What is the Mystical Body of Christ?• Why is the Church necessary for salvation?• What are the three states in which the Church

currently exists?

What is the Mystical Body of Christ?

• It is the divine communion in which each member of the Church is united together in Christ, who is the head.

• The vertical dimension of the Mystical Body is the relationship between every member of the Church and Christ. It is vertical because God is higher than us.

• The horizontal dimension is the communion among the Church’s members. The members of Christ’s body are essentially equal in dignity as the children of God.

Is the Church Necessary for Salvation?

• The Church is necessary for Salvation because she is the means by which God has chosen to convey the graces of redemption to the world.

What are the three states in which the Church currently exists?

• The Pilgrim Church on Earth• The suffering Church in Purgatory• The Church Triumphant in Heaven

What does it mean that the Church is necessary for salvation?

• It means that man’s salvation comes from the Church.

• The consequence is that if anyone knows that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God for salvation, but refuses to enter it or to remain in it can not be saved.

What is the relationship between the necessity of the Church for salvation and the missionary enterprise?

• Because the Church is necessary for salvation, the Church has the obligation to preach the Gospel to the whole world.

• Those who are invincibly ignorant of the Gospel are not guilty of accepting it. Rather, if they seek God sincerely and follow the dictates of their conscience, they will, with the help of grace, achieve external salvation.

FOUR MARKS OF THE CHURCH

Questions to Think About

• What are the four marks of the Church?• How did the four marks of the Church arise?• What are three ways that the Church is

apostolic?• What is apostolic succession?

What are the four marks of the Church?

• The Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic.• That is there is only one Church, the holiness

fully derives from Christ, she is for all men at all times, and she is grounded in the Apostles.

• Video: Four Marks of the Church

What are three ways that the Church is apostolic?

• The Church was founded by the Apostles• She faithfully hands on the Apostle’s teachings.• She is governed by the successors of the

Apostles.Apostolic succession is the chain of ordination from Apostle to bishop to successor bishop all the way down to the present.Video: Who Gave the Bishops’ Authority?

THE TEACHING AND SANCTIFYING CHURCH

Question to Think About

• What gifts does the Holy Spirit give its members?

• How are Peter and his successors Vicars of Christ?

What gifts does the Holy Spirit give its members?

• The Holy Spirit gives life to the Church.• The Holy Spirit gives its members of the

Church the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity, as well as the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• The Holy Spirit strengthens the graces of the Sacrament of Confirmation giving the Christian the ability to be a witness to Christ in the world.

How are Peter and his successors Vicars of Christ?

• Christ chose the twelve Apostles to be the foundation stones of the Church with Saint Peter as the leader.

• They are Vicars in Christ, since they act in place of Christ (the invisible head) as the visible heads of the Church.

Questions to think about…

• What is the Magisterium?• What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the

Church’s doctrines?• What are matters of faith and morals?• What is papal infallibility?

What is the Magisterium?

• It is the name of the teaching office of the Church.

• It belongs to the Pope and the bishops united to him.

What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church’s doctrines?

• Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would help the Apostles to remember everything he said to them, and that the Spirit would teach them everything they needed to know.

What are matters of faith and morals?

• Faith refers to religious doctrines (such as Christ rose from the dead).

• Morals refer to behavior, for example, not to practice infanticide, something the early Christian neighbors did.

What is papal infallibility?

• Infallible means to make an error.• The Pope and the bishops united to him have

the gift of infallibility.• Papal infallibility is when the Pope, in virtue of

his authority defines a doctrine concerning faith and morals to be held by the whole Church, he can not be in error.

• It is usually seen in the decisions of ecumenical councils.

Questions to Think About

• What is a sacrament?• Who instituted the Sacraments and when?• What are the seven Sacraments? • Who has the authority to celebrate the

Sacraments?

What is a sacrament?Who instituted the Sacraments and when?

• A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church by which divine life is dispensed to us.

• The Sacraments were instituted by Christ, while on earth.

• Bishops and deacons share the authority to celebrate the Sacraments.

• Video: Why are Sacraments Important?

What are the seven Sacraments? • Baptism

• Confirmation Sacraments of Initiation• Eucharist • Holy Orders Sacraments of Service• Matrimony• Sacrament of the Sick • Reconciliation Sacraments of Healing

END THINGS

Questions to Think About

• For Christians, what is the purpose of living a Christian life?

• What is particular judgment?

For Christians, what is the purpose of living a Christian life?

• Video: The end of our life?• Entrance into heaven• Resurrection of the body at the end of time• People can cooperate with grace to receive

salvation during their life on earth, after death it is to late.

What is particular judgment?

• It is the judgment, God makes upon each soul and immediately at death of either:

• External communication with God• Temporary purification (Purgatory)• External separation (hell)

In heaven, which persons are in communion?

• God, the angels, and saved human beings are in communion.

• A beautified vision is the perfect, face to face contemplation of the glory of God the blessed in Heaven enjoy.

• The emotion that characterized heaven is bliss.

Questions to Think About

• What is the purpose of purgatory?• What does it mean to say purgatory is

temporary?

What is the purpose of purgatory?What does it mean to say purgatory is

temporary?

• Purgatory is to free the soul of every attachment of sin so as to be fit for Heaven.

• It is temporary because every soul is assured of the eventual attainment of Heaven.

• Purgatory is a state, not a place. Souls being immaterial spirits, do not occupy space. The state they experience is separation from God.

Questions to Think About

• What is hell? • How does a person end up in hell?• Why is there no happiness in hell?

What is hell? How does a person end up in hell?

Why is there no happiness in hell?

• Hell is the state of external self-exclusion from communion with God and the Blessed.

• A person ends up in hell by dying in a state of mortal sin without repentance.

• The soul is separated from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and which he longs.

Questions to Think About

• What is the Parousia?• What will happen at the Last Judgment? to

the universe at the end of time?

What is the Parousia?

• It is a return of Christ in power and majesty at the end of time.

• At the Parousia, Christ will judge the living and the dead and establish his kingdom in all of it’s fullness.

What will happen at the Last Judgment? to the universe at the end of time?

• When Christ returns, he will raise everyone in their own bodies, everyone’s conduct will be revealed, and each person will be rewarded or punished on that basis.

• We will understand why God sometimes allows the good to suffer, and the bad to prosper at the last judgment.

• The universe will be transformed into a perfect place, pictured in Sacred Scripture as the New Jerusalem.

• Video: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

Questions to Think About

• What is the Kingdom of God like now?• What effect should the Kingdom of God have

on earthly realities?• What would be the effect if each person

embraced the Kingdom of God?

What is the Kingdom of God like now?

• It is a spiritual kingdom entered into through faith and Baptism.

• It is not difficult to live under the reign of Christ on earth. According to Mt 11:30, Christ said it himself, “My yoke is sweet, and my burden light.”

What effect should the Kingdom of God have on earthly realities?

• In preaching of the Gospel, the Church proposes the ethical principals to guide the transformation of the world.

• The Church provides the graces necessary for men to act in accordance with them.

• The laity, then has the major responsibility to reconstruct the secular world so that God’s will “will be done on earth.”

What would be the effect if each person embraced the Kingdom of God?

• People would be free from the slavery of sin.• People would be reconciled with God.• Private and public life would be characterized

by real liberty, well ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.

• Let there be peace on earth video.

Citations for this ChapterFrom You Tube:Four Marks of the Church. Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Downloaded on April 19. 2013 http://youtu.be/lhxxaAJ7_nY Who Gave the Bishops’ Authority? Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Downloaded on April 26, 2013 http://youtu.be/Rrq8BvHoS0EWhy are Sacraments Important? Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Downloaded on May 3, 2013 http://youtu.be/2R8Ne5HbDeUThe End of Our Life. Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Downloaded on November 12, 2013. http://youtu.be/Zu3Kk7YPqAoHeaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Downloaded on November 12, 2013. http://youtu.be/WCJVBzFOp1ALet There Be Peace on Earth. By Vincent Gail. Downloaded on December 24, 2009 http://youtu.be/HPH4LRASWbo

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

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