Spirit of Truth, Parish Edition > Grade 1 1st Ed. > Unit 1
Session 3: We Pray to and Worship God
We listen to and talk with God when we pray.
We listen to and talk with God when we pray.
The three artifacts of the Fall are darkened intellect, weakened will, and inclination toward sin.
To be made in God’s image and likeness means that we possess an intellect, free will, and a capacity for love.
God made Adam and Eve in His image and likeness to live out the roles of priest, prophet, king, son or daughter of God, and spouse.
The mystery of the Holy Trinity is that God is three Persons in one God.
The world was made for the glory of God, to show it forth and communicate it.
Human beings image God not only as individual persons, but most perfectly as male and female in a common union (communion) of love.
To love God means to love our neighbor, which is a sign of being a disciple of Christ.
Cain and Abel both fulfilled their priestly role given to them through Adam by offering sacrifice to God. Cain’s sacrifice, however, was unacceptable as it did not represent a true spiritual sacrifice.
God is love and He made us out of love.
We are God’s children and are made in His image and likeness.
Pope Saint John Paul II taught that, “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.”
A saint is a holy person whom the Church has officially recognized as having practiced heroic virtue and lived a holy, faithful life worthy of imitation and who is in Heaven with God.
God sent the Great Flood to cleanse the earth of wickedness and sin.
To be made in God’s image and likeness means that we possess an intellect, free will, and a capacity for love.