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Lesson 33: God Calls His People
The Church is the people of God, whom He calls, experienced as the local community, liturgical assembly, and universal community.
The Church is the people of God, whom He calls, experienced as the local community, liturgical assembly, and universal community.
The Church seeks to gather all persons together for the sake of their salvation and to be part of God’s Kingdom as one people, one Body of Christ.
On Pentecost, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, who were filled with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
The Church continues Jesus’ mission on earth: the salvation of all souls.
The Holy Spirit, working in and through the Church today, unites the People of God.
Popes and bishops teach the faithful and lead the faithful to holiness so that we might attain Heaven.
In our parishes, we receive the Sacraments and all God’s gifts, everything we need to know, love, and serve God.
Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit after Him to teach us everything, to remind us of all that Christ said to us, and to bear witness to Him.
The Church is an enduring sign of salvation and is the very instrument of our salvation.
Jesus taught us that He is the Bread of Life and that we must eat His Body and drink His Blood in order to have eternal life.
The Magisteriums role is to proclaim, clarify, and explain Christs revelation and those actions that are incompatible with it.
The seven Sacraments are the primary means by which God distributes His Grace.
The three offices, or functions, of the Church are teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
The visible structure of the Church is a hierarchical communion: the pope is the successor to St. Peter and the Vicar of Christ, and bishops are the successors to the Apostles.
New Age Spirituality is an eclectic combination of beliefs and practices, some of which resemble Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as certain ancient Christian heresies such as Gnosticism.