Semester Review Paschal Mystery

Who created the world?

• The Father alone

• The Son alone

• The Holy Spirit alone

• The three Persons of the Trinity acting together

Why did God create us?

• God finds his identity as he accompanies us through human history

• God is overabundant love and wanted to pour out his love on his creatures

• God wanted to create people lesser than himself so that he could show how powerful he was

• God was bored

Do we have a natural desire for God?

• No, because if we did then no one would be an atheist.

• No, because we can only desire God through supernatural grace.

• Yes, but we might not realize that the love, happiness, and goodness we desire is found in God.

• Yes, and we only say that we don't desire God if we are afraid God will make us stop sinning.

What is Original Holiness?

• To live like Jesus

• To live like Mary

• this signifies that the first human shared intimately in God's divine life.

• None of the above

What is Original Justice?

• this signifies that the first human beings were in harmony with God, themselves, and creation.

• When the system of law is functioning properly.

• The first court in human civilization.

• None of the above.

Natural Revelation is a way of finding God by looking at the world around you and at the human beings and by thinking about them.

• False

• True

Divine Revelation is NOT a way of finding God that cannot be arrived at by our own powers but only through God's free decision to reveal himself.

• False

• True

What is the Magisterium?

• This is the group of priests, who are in communion with the Bishop, that are the living and teaching office of the Church.

• This is the group of bishops, who are in communion with the Pope, that are the living and teaching office of the Church.

• This is all the parishes in the world that teach Catechesis.

• None of the above.

There are symbols in the story of Adam and Eve that help us to understand that God wants to have a loving relationship with all people.

• True

• False

The relationship of Adam and Eve had in the Garden of Eden symbolized their complete dishonesty with each other and their lack of respect for the rest of creation.

• True

• False