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Chapter 1: The Universal Call to Holiness
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 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.
In this lesson your children explore the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. In this Sacrament, our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled to God and His Church through the confession of those sins and acts of penance. We are also strengthened by this Sacrament to avoid sin in the future.
In this lesson your children explore the gateway to the Christian life: Baptism. In Baptism, your children were cleansed of the stain of Original Sin and became part of God’s family.
The main effect of the Sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit that was also given to the Apostles on the day of Pentecost.
Baptism is the first Sacrament we receive. It makes us members of the Church, forgives our sins, and gives us new life in Christ.
The effects of Baptism are the forgiveness of sins, becoming a new creature, becoming a member of the Church, forming bonds of Christian unity, and imprinting an indelible mark on the soul.
Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection made it possible for us to go to Heaven.
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 scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
Confirmation gives a special strength to witness to the Christian faith and to defend against sin and temptation.
The Sacrament of Confirmation more perfectly binds a baptized person to the Church and fills him or her with a special strength of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said that when people come together to pray using His name, He is actually with them listening, helping, and praying with them too.
The Bible is the story of God’s people from Creation through the beginning of the Church.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
The Eucharist fulfills our Lord’s promise to give us Himself, the Bread of Life.