God the Father chapter 3

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St. Paul also teaches this truth about God when he says,

"In him we live and move and have our being."

In the encyclical, Pope Pius Xll states,

"The faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either after Adam there existed"

As St. Thomas Aquinas explained,

"The preservation of things by God is a continuation of that action whereby he gives existence, which action is without either motion or time."

Christ called God "____" (a more familiar address for a father, along the lines of "Dad") and taught his followers to say, "Our Father who art in Heaven."

Abba

Humanity is descended from ____________.

Adam and Eve

Man is the union of

Body and Soul

Soul in Hebrew means ________: Inhalation or Exhalation

Breath

This inherent goodness of matter was affirmed by ______ when he became man himself and when he instituted the sacraments, which make use of material things for spiritual purposes.

Christ

Following ______, the Church warns her faithful about the sad reality of Hell, the state of ____________. It is the consequence of a person—whether angelic or human—having ______ chosen to _________ him or herself eternally from God. This principal punishment separates the person from God, in whom alone man can have the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.

Christ eternal death freely separate

The defining belief of ____________ is that Jesus Christ is the eternally begotten Son of the Father.

Christianity

______: The separation of Body and Soul: Consequence of ___________

Death Original sin

Pope Benedict XVI: __________ issues are of grave concern for the entire human family because what people do in one place can benefit or harm people in the whole world. Thus people cannot disregard the environment without betraying ___________ and violating the rights of citizens, who deserve to live in a safe environment.

Environmental Human dignity

In Jesus' time it seemed shocking or even blasphemous to hear him speak of God as "Abba" or to hear him claim that he was the Son of God. This is the same ______ whom Christ revealed to be goodness and loving care.

Father

St. Gabriel appeared to Zechariah, saying, "I am _______, who stands in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

Gabriel

The Human Body can be used to ____________________

Glorify God

The being of each creature depends immediately on ___. Since all things created by God are naturally good, we ought to love the world in which God has placed us.

God

The Human Body is Good because

God created it

Body is ______ by Nature

Good

Life is the time open to accepting or rejecting Divine ________

Grace

St. Raphael

Healing of God

Original sin is transmitted through

Human generation

Human beings are made in the Image and Likeness of God: Rational Souls: ________ and _________ and Capacity to ________

Intellect Free will love

______ often spoke about angels.

Jesus

____ leads us to share love with others. God, who is love, desired to create all things in order to enable his creatures to share in his love and happiness. He is all-perfect and has need of _______. He was not obliged to create in order to obtain some perfection he did not previously possess. He would not have been less God.

Love nothing

___________ is a permanent, lifelong and indissoluble union of man and woman. Spouses become co-creators with God

Marriage

The archangel Gabriel was also sent to ____ at the Annunciation, revealing that she would be the Mother of Jesus.

Mary

______ was created out of nothing by God at the beginning of time.

Matter

Who wrote the encyclical Humani Generis in 1950?

Pope Pius XII

Accompanying Tobit on his journey, the angel Raphael declared to him, "I am _________, one of the seven holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One.

Raphael

Every Human Being is Intrinsically ______: Because made in God's Image and Likeness...NOT because of what he or she possesses or can do

Sacred

The Catholic Church has always taught that Sacred _________ is the inerrant word of God.

Scripture

St. Gabriel means

Strength of God

____ began with creation, and we can rightly refer to ________ as "the beginning of time."

Time Creation

Adam and Eve sinned against what command?

To be obedient to God

All creation shows his greatness, but humans, because we were made in his image and likeness, are especially called to give glory to God.

True

As a result of Adam and Eve's sin, our ancestors fell from their state of sinless innocence.

True

Christ definitively revealed God the Father to be the source of all good things and have loving care for all his children.

True

Death of Soul through loss of sanctifying grace and death to the body through sin

True

God wanted his creation to participate in his own divine life.

True

St. Michael

Who is like God

Are some Important truths of faith found in Genesis?

Yes

God breathed __________ into Adam

a human soul

Preservation is not

a reiteration of the creative action, as if it had to be continuously repeated. Rather, it is the very same uninterrupted act.

The creation of human beings—in whatever manner humans arose in history—was an _____________ by God.

act of special creation

Christ died for_________, even infants who cannot commit actual sin

all infants

God ______ the devil to _______ people both to test their fidelity and to reveal the power and merits of ______. However, God will never abandon us in these trials and will always give us the grace to resist the temptations of the devil.35 For this reason, we should always be vigilant, relying on ______ in the assurance that he will prevail in the end.

allows tempt Christ God

God created both orders of creatures in the same way out of. nothing, the spiritual or _______ world and the corporeal or visible universe.

angelic

Scripture also reveals the work of certain of these __________

angelic messengers

Some angels have proper names indicating their specific mission, such as the ___________ St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.

archangels

Baptism: Soul __________of sin and sanctifying grace received , BUT __________ of Original Sin remain: Concupiscence, suffering and death

cleansed effects

Man is a __________ Being: Physical Body that is Perishable; Spiritual Soul that is Imperishable

composite

Life begins at

conception

Because of Original Sin, human nature includes __________: a tendency toward sin

concupiscence

Act as God's stewards:

cooperating with God in His act of Creation

God uses ________ as the instrument to redeem us.

creation

"The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the _____ and endowed by him with its own proper laws .... God himself is the author of marriage."

creator

Man is capable of knowing himself, possessing himself, giving himself, entering into communion with other persons, being in a covenant with the ________, and choosing to follow God's will and return His _____

creator love

Soul is ________ _______ into the body by God at the moment of _______

directly infused conception

Special angelic assistance is indispensable to the Christian journey. Although grace enables us to believe and love God above all things, our reason and wills are weakened by Original Sin. The action of the guardian angel is that of a true and faithful companion who helps us to ____________________. With the help of our guardian angels, the truth is clarified in our minds, and we are enabled to recognize God's will in every situation. Our angel can reach our imagination directly—without words— by awakening images, remembrances, and impressions that can clarify what God is asking of us and help us to continue on the proper path.

discern right from wrong

When God acts, all three Persons are present and act as well. This is sometimes called the _______ _________.

divine economy

As revealed by Christ, the Blessed Trinity is a ______, an infinite family of three persons.

family

Redemption is a victory over Satan that only become definitive at the ______________

final judgement

Humans, who are endowed by God with ____ ____, however, do not always cooperate in God's plans.

free will

He calls us to his __________ in this life and wants us to share in his __________________ in Heaven.

friendship eternal happiness

Sacred Scripture teaches us that all of creation is ordained to the _____ of God.

glory

all of creation is ____.

good

Divine _________ refers to the way God carries out that plan, guiding each creature toward its proper _________ according to its own nature and leading all of creation to _____________.

governance purpose perfection

Angels, who also are messengers and function as ________ angels.

guardian

The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms that each human being is entrusted by God to the custody of a ____________________ from childhood to death. "Each Christian has an angel beside him as a protector and shepherd to lead him to life everlasting."

guardian angel

Scripture teaches us that "God so loved the world that ____________________, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

he gave his only son

God desires to share ________ with us.

his love

God's desire is to bring all things to perfection, drawing all of_________ into eternal life.

humanity

Marital love is ________, not accidentally or incidentally, but intrinsically. God created the human family in his own image and likeness.

life-giving

Original Sin: ____ of supernatural Life, _____________ reason and will, Concupiscence, suffering and __________________ of all human beings and allows a person to pursue holiness - to become like Christ

loss weakened death

God created Heaven and earth as an expression of his _____ Contemplating the created world has led the followers of many religions to acknowledge God's transcendence and omnipotence, and it is by virtue of his creation that mankind can rightly refer to the __________ of God.

love Fatherhood

The vocation to ________ is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator.

marriage

The word "angel" means _____________

messenger

Jesus relates that the devil is the "_______ from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because 'there is __ ______ in him.' When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the ______ of lies."

murderer no truth father

While referring to children, he said, "Their angels always behold the face of__________ who is in heaven." An angel consoled our Lord in his agony in Gethsemane, and angels announced the birth of Jesus to the shepherds and the Resurrection of the Lord to the holy women. Early Christian belief in guardian angels is confirmed in the ________________when a group of disciples was told by the maid Rhoda that St. Peter was at the door of the house, and they exclaimed, "It is his angel!"

my father Acts of the apostles

God allows the Devil to tempt people -

never beyond their strength - to test their fidelity and reveal the power and merits of Christ

God does ___ _____ his will upon us, but asks us to _______ our own wills to his so that his providence and governance may be accomplished.

not impose conform

God did not use any pre-existing substance to create the universe, because

nothing else but God existed before Creation.

Adam and Eve were commanded to be ________ to God.

obedient

The Human Being can be used to _________________

offend God

Encompasses the way that we treat God's Creation especially

other people

Matter as well as spirit, body as well as soul are all _______ that are created by God.

positive goods

Christian practice to invoke the assistance of our guardian angels, especially in times of temptation or difficulty. Christian tradition describes the guardian angels as ________ _______, placed by God alongside each one of us, to accompany us on our way.

powerful friends

As the Second Vatican Council taught, the devil has acted throughout history. "For a monumental struggle against the ________________ pervades the whole history of man. The battle was joined from the very origins of the world and will continue until the last day, as the Lord has attested," and St. Peter warns us, "Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking _______ to devour."

powers of darkness someone

By divine _________, we mean that every creature, including every human being, is led by grace and nature toward the purpose for which it was created according to God's plan. To the extent that we seek and conform ourselves to that plan, the will of God is fulfilled.

providence

Adam's sin destroyed the divine balance of Creation; but God the Father sent his only Son to __________, so that we, his children by adoption, might free creation from _____________________all things to God.

re-establish peace disorder and reconcile

Through the ________________ of Christ on the Cross, we are able to become the __________ sons and daughters of God the Father and to live the life of holiness to which we have been called.

redemptive sacrifice adoptive

Soul continues to exist after death and __________________

returns to God

Body decomposes, but will be perfected and glorified, __________ with the soul at the end of time

reunited

was a victory over Satan, that triumph will not become definitive until the _______ ________, when God will render final judgment.

second coming

Angels are personal, free, _________ _______ who possess neither a body like ours nor any matter at all.

spiritual beings

Man is a ____________ for the Good Use of Creation

steward

Concupiscence: Each individual must ___________ to be virtuous and avoid sin, practice self-denial and make reparation for sins committed

struggle

Man's original state was ________________ holiness and justice, free from suffering and death

supernatural

Adam and Eve were created ________.

without sin

We must love the world and work and all human things. For the _____ is good.

world


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