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Lesson 7: Exploring the Kingdom
Jesus inaugurates the Kingdom of God on earth because He founded the Catholic Church during His earthly life.
Jesus inaugurates the Kingdom of God on earth because He founded the Catholic Church during His earthly life.
Jesus taught us how to achieve perfect happiness in Heaven with God by living our purpose here on earth by following the Beatitudes.
The Ten Commandments are summarized and fulfilled by Jesus two Great Commandments: love God above all else and love your neighbor as yourself.
Happiness is the goal of a moral life.
Living a life of holiness as a disciple of Christ requires us to live a life of witness to Him by sharing with the world our love for Christ by our words and actions.
Baptism makes us adopted children of God and incorporates us into the Mystical Body of Christ – His Church
The universal call to holiness is the vocation of every human person; God calls each of us to be holy as He is holy, that is, to be saints.
The Beatitudes are dispositions that lead us to God’s blessings.
Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.
Happiness is only fully satisfied when we enter Heaven and live in union with God forever.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that Jesus came to earth to fulfill the Old Law and the prophets, which promised a Messiah that would save us from sin and death and bring us to new life. The Beatitudes are the heart of Jesus’ preaching; therefore, through the Beatitudes we see the perfection and fulfillment of the Old Law in the New.
Your children will learn the Church teaches that God placed the desire for happiness in each of our hearts. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave us the Beatitudes to show us what it means to be happy. The Beatitudes are the promise of the happiness of those who hope in the Kingdom of God.
There is continuity of the law from the Old Testament through the New Testament until the end of time.
Jesus is the end of the moral law and the perfect model of holiness.
There is continuity of the law from the Old Testament through the New Testament until the end of time.