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Lesson 2

Human Beings: The Summit of Creation

Human beings are the crown jewel of creation, alone out of all of God’s creatures made in His image and likeness.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Conscience Creation and Creator Grace Marriage Sin Virtue
Essential Lessons

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Intellect
    :
    (n.): One of the rational faculties of the human soul; a person’s ability to use reason in pursuit of truth.
  • Free Will
    :
    (n.): One of the faculties of the human soul; a person’s ability to choose and act based upon knowledge and understanding
  • Rational Faculties
    :
    (n.): The collective name for human soul’s powers of intellect and free will.
  • Dignity
    :
    (n.): The quality of being worthy of honor or respect; possessing great value or worth.
  • Steward
    :
    (n.): One who has been given the duty to care for and cultivate something responsibly.
  • Dominion
    :
    (n.): Ownership of something, including the kingly power to rule over it and make decisions about how it will be used for the common good.
  • Complementary
    :
    (adj.): Combining in such a way as to enhance or complete one another.
  • Communion of Persons
    :
    (n.): A phrase used to describe an exchange of self-giving love that unites the members of a family. God as Trinity is inherently a communion of Persons.
  • Chastity
    :
    (n.): The true integration of sexuality within a person’s bodily and spiritual being. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery. Each of us is called to chastity.
  • Vocation
    :
    (n.): A call from God to a permanent state of life: ordained priesthood, consecrated religious life, or Marriage. All people have the vocation from God to love and to be holy.
  • Nephesh
    :
    (n.): Hebrew word for “soul” but which can also mean “living being” or “breath.”
  • Ruah
    :
    (n.): Hebrew word meaning "breath" or "Spirit."
  • Soul
    :
    (n.): That which animates or gives life to a body.
  • Theology of the Body
    :
    (n.): A series of talks given by Pope St. John Paul II over many months of Wednesday audiences, in which he provided a teaching on the nature of man rooted in the first three chapters of Genesis, and proposed that “the body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine.”
  • Final Resurrection
    :
    (n.): The term used by the Church to describe how at the end of time, our souls will be reunited with our risen bodies. The just will enjoy eternal life in communion with God in their glorified bodies, while the bodies of the damned will share in their soul’s eternal separation from God.
  • Original Holiness
    :
    (n.): The state of friendship with God enjoyed by Adam and Eve before their sin brought pain, suffering and death into the world.
  • Original Justice
    :
    (n.): The original state of human beings before sin. In the beginning there was no suffering or death, man was at peace with himself, there was harmony between men and women, and there was peace between Adam and Eve and all of creation. Original Justice was lost due to the Original Sin.

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