District final practice questions

During Advent, the Universal Church focuses our prayers, celebrations and traditions around the mystery of the Incarnation, which means:

• The ascension of Jesus into heaven

• The Holy Spirit descending upon the disciples

• God becoming fully human in the person of Jesus

• God as 3 persons with 1 divine nature

By professing the Nicene Creed, we acknowledge that the Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. When we act justly to one another and share God’s love with all, especially those most vulnerable, we are BEST following which of those 4 aspects of the Church?

• One

• Holy

• Catholic

• Apostolic

By professing the Nicene Creed, we acknowledge that the Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. By sharing in Holy Communion at mass, praying for others across the world and celebrating feast days of the Saints in unity, we are BEST following which of those 4 aspects of the Church?

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• One

• Holy

• Catholic

• Apostolic

Our journey in faith is ongoing. For every Christian salvation journey, we are seeking to be “perfected in holiness to share eternity with God”. This is referred to as:

• Justified

• Sanctified

• Glorified

In the picture above, Jesus was being tempted to give up His fast and abandon His mission. Which scenario describes this type of temptation and moral dilemma in our lives today?

• Being tempted to exclude people who are different or unpopular.

• Being tempted to indulge and binge to satisfy our cravings

• Being tempted to lie to get our way or avoid the consequences of our mistakes.

• All of the above.

When we accept Jesus’ mission to witness to our faith and inspire others by our example of love and service, we are engaging in evangelization. Read the following example and decide which area in our world is BEST demonstrating faithful evangelization.

• Faithful in culture

• Faithful in social communication

• Faithful in science and technology

• Faithful in the economy

Which statement does NOT represent the truth about the Gospels?

• The Gospels established the New Covenant in Jesus

• The Gospels reveal the truth of all Scripture

• The Gospels affirm God’s great love for us

• The Gospels represent the subjective truth of the authors

Su-Ho went to school on Monday feeling anxious and with a sense of dread. Over the weekend, someone in her class reposted a social media post she had created in grade 7, 2 years ago. It was an ugly rant about her Math teacher who she had been angry with after she failed a unit test. Now however, Su-Ho has this same Math teacher again as her homeroom teacher and she really likes him and his sense of humor. She knows that everyone in her class has seen this repost and many of them had “liked” it. She is unsure of what to do next and what to expect from her peers as she heads to homeroom for attendance.

8. Su-Ho feels deep regret for her words and her actions from the past. She has matured and recognized how the Holy Spirit has helped her to think and act morally. Fill in the blank: “She has grown in the development of forming a healthy ____________”.

• awareness

• conscience

• responsibility

• Reasoning

Moving forward, Su-Ho wants to make decisions not based on immediate emotions but on good and loving choices. Based on the model for making moral decisions, what is the first step she should take to reconcile this situation:

• Act immediately

• Judge herself for what she did

• Evaluate how her peers will react and what she should say to them

• See and recognize the injustice of her social media post

Even on the day of His death, Jesus modelled the Trinity’s mercy and forgiveness. Analyze the following scene and choose which “Message of Mercy” is being communicated by Jesus.

• In this Scene, Jesus communicates the following “Message of Mercy”:

• Jesus shows us that when we ask for forgiveness, he will restore us in His grace

• Jesus gives us Mary as Mother of the Church to inspire us to carry on His mission.

• Jesus shares with us his power over sin and death as he is “true God from true God”