After the ___________ committed by Adam and Eve, God______________.

3. The Mystical Body of Christ, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Sacrament of Salvation and the Bride of Christ

are all:

As the Mystical Body of Christ

As a community, into which individuals are incorporated through ________________ the Church is a ___________________ institution

This “family of God” is gradually formed and takes shape during the stages of human history, in keeping with the Father’s plan. (CCC 759)

The Protoevangelium occurs right before Original Sin.

This “family of God” is established by command ex nihilo, out of nothing, into immediate existence. (CCC 759)

From all eternity, God had a plan to draw all people into communion with Himself.

The Imago Dei is the central mystery of the Catholic Faith.

Christians of the first centuries said, “The Church was created for the sake of the world.”

Christians of the first centuries said, “The world was created for the sake of the Church.”

In order to better understand the nature of the Church, we need to go back to the very beginning of the human story to see how God prepared his people for the coming of Christ .

The Church is both the means and goal of God’s plan: prefigured in ____________, prepared for in the __________________....” (CCC 778)

The Church is founded by the words and actions of ________________. (CCC 778)

According to CCC 778, how is the Church, as means and goal of God’s plan, fulfilled?

According to CCC 778 how has the church been manifested?

How did God bring creation into being?

On the first day, God created _____________ and separated it from the _____________.

On the fifth day, God called forth “_______________” to rule over “___________________”

“God, infinitely perfect and ____________ in Himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in His own _________________ life.” CCC 1

What is the central mystery of the Catholic faith?

Hebrew for “Annointed”

Greek for Annointed

When St Paul says, “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together, He is the head of the body the church”(Col 1:17-18), he is speaking about how the faithful are united together in:

The mountains around Jerusalem where Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice

The Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God

The hill on which the oldest part of Jerusalem was built. A poetic name for the city of Jerusalem.

The faithful People of God, who in a supernatural way become one body, with Christ as its head

We refer to the ____________ of individuals to the priesthood, the religious life, or to ministry as bishop

This Sacrament is a union is ordered to the mutual benefit of the spouses and the procreation and education of children (“Be fruitful and multiply”(Gn 1:28)

The theological virtue by which one believes, because of God’s authority, in all that God has revealed and that the church proposes for belief.

A kind of bread “from Heaven” given to God to the Hebrews as their daily food to sustain them during their years of wandering in the desert.

An ornate box that held the tablets of the Law, the rod of Aaron, and some manna; it represented God’s throne on earth

For the Israelites, the Ten Commandments and other laws given by God revealing how he wants his people to conduct themselves

The part of the Bible, containing forty-six books that tells the story of salvation history through God’s covenant with Israel in preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ

The people chosen by God to be his people and inherit the promises of Abraham. This people is named after Jacob, from whose twelve sons the tribes of the people descend. During the time of the divided nation, this refers to the northern ten tribes.

Men and women appointed by God to govern the Israelites and return them to righteousness after they had fallen into sin and idolatry after the death of Joshua; also, the Old Testament book describing this period in Israel’s history.