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WorksheetsFirst Commandment
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Who described charity (love) as the "mother of all virtues"?
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustine
St.Monica
Plato
Agape (Greek) is defined as what kind of love?
Romantic love
Selfless love
Familial affection
Transactional fairness
Caritas (Latin) is said to be rooted in a word meaning what, in the sense of "holding someone close to one's" this?
Voice
Mind
Will
Heart
It is God's very nature is to:
Punish
Judge
Love
Hate
Hatred of God is defined as deliberate rejection of God due to resentment, anger and:
love
pride
charity
empathy
The complete rejection of the Christian faith is called what?
Heresy
Schism
Apostasy
Idolatry
Which statement best defines heresy?
Willful denial by a baptized person of some essential truth of the Catholic faith
Temporary absence from worship services
Respectful disagreement about nonessential doctrines
Conversion from one Christian denomination to another
Indifference is described as regarding God as what in one's life?
Unimportant or irrelevant
All-powerful ruler
Central and guiding force
Occasional helper
Humans are guilty of idolatry when they do what?
Use sacred art for teaching purposes
Honor or revere something as a substitute for God
Pray privately without images
Study theology to understand faith
Divination is defined as foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by calling up which powers, with practices such as palm reading, ouija boards, and tarot cards?
God
Angelic guidance
Calling on the saints to reveal our future
Demonic powers
Sacrilege is described as profane or unworthy treatment of what?
The sacraments; liturgical actions; persons, places, and things consecrated to God
Secular laws and customs
Historical artifacts of any culture
Personal property with sentimental value
Spiritism is described as summoning the ghosts of whom (through seances and mediums), which can lead to a fascination with evil spirits?
St. Michael the Archangel
The dead
Angels
Saints
Atheism is the denial of God's existence and leads humans to consider themselves what and be subject to no greater power than themselves?
The highest level of beings
Stewards of creation
Creatures dependent on divine providence
Moral agents accountable to God
Atheism mistakenly teaches that faith in God does what to human freedom and dignity?
Enhances
Guarantees
Ignores
Thwarts
What is Agnosticism?
The belief that God's existence cannot be proven
The belief that God does not exist
The belief that God created the earth and everything in it
The belief that God is manifested in all created things
What are the theological virtues?
Faith, hope and prudence
Hope, justice and faith
Faith, hope and charity
Faith, hope and justice
Which of the theological virtues empowers us to say "yes" to God?
Hope
Charity
Faith
All three
Which of the following people is considered to be the greatest role model of faith because of her assent to give birth to the Savior?
St. Monica
St. Elizabeth
St. Rose of Lima
Mary
What are some ways we can strengthen the virtue of faith?
Scripture and prayer
Associating and listening to people of faith
Sacraments
Prayer, scripture, associating and listening to people of faith and the sacraments
Identify the virtue that enables us to believe God is all good, all powerful and all loving.
Hope
Justice
Prudence
Temperance
St. Monica is a role model for the gift of hope because she never tired of praying for the conversion of her son to the:
Christian faith
Jewish faith
Muslim faith
Buddhist faith
Who was St. Monica's son?
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustine
St. John
St. Patrick
Why did St. Monica pray for her son's conversion?
Her son was living a virtuous life
Her son was in an open relationship
Her son led an immoral life
Her son was a murderer
What are sins against the virtue of hope?
Presumption and faith
Despair and anger
Presumption and despair
Despair and anger
What is despair?
Losing hope that God can save us or forgive us our sins
Assuming God will save us even if we don't repent
Intense faith in God
Having hope God can save us or forgive us our sins
Why is presumption a violation of the virtue of hope?
When we take for granted that we can save ourselves without God's help.
When we think God will be automatically merciful even if we do not repent
How did St. Thomas Aquinas describe the virtue of love?
"The mother of all vices"
"The mother of all cardinal virtues"
"The mother of all virtues"
"The father of all virtues"
Define agape.
Selfish love
Selfless love
Familial love
Romantic love
The Latin term, caritas, means to hold someone close to one's:
mind
hand
heart
arms
The false worship of gods; to honor or revere someone or something more than the one true God.
Adultery
Apostasy
Heresy
Idolatry
Foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by calling up demonic powers. Examples include, palm reading, ouija boards and tarot cards.
Divination
Apostasy
Heresy
Atheism
The profane or unworthy treatment of sacraments, liturgical actions, persons and places, and things consecrated to God.
Apostasy
Heresy
Sacrilege
Divination
What is spiritism?
Rejecting the Christian faith.
Rejecting some essential truth of the Catholic faith by a baptized person.
Summoning the ghosts of the dead through practices, such as seances and mediums. which can lead to a fascination with evil spirits.
A spiritual practice in which one offers praise and thanksgiving to God.
The denial of God's existence.
Agnosticism
Atheism
Taoism
Buddhism
Which belief system teaches that humans cannot know for certain that God exists because there is no tangible proof for God.
Atheism
Hinduism
Agnosticism
Confucianism
