The Church is the Body of Christ: a complex spiritual and physical reality that makes Jesus visible to the world in and through her many members, who each build up the Church by their unique gifts and talents.
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.
Human beings are the crown jewel of creation, alone out of all of Gods creatures made in His image and likeness.
We are created in the image and likeness of God and therefore have deep dignity and worth.
A vocation is God’s call to a particular and permanent state in life in direct service to another person or the Church. These vocations are marriage, ordained priesthood, and consecrated religious life.
Every vocation must be lived in communion with others because it is a sign of God’s love and mercy towards us.
The Sacrament of Marriage is a sign to the world of God’s love and the means by which Christ sanctifies a couple and leads them to Heaven. The most appropriate place for the marriage rite is within a liturgical celebration, preferably a Nuptial Mass surrounded by Christian witnesses.
Society itself depends upon the well-being of the family; therefore, the good of the family should take priority in nature to the good of civil society or the State.
Today there are both many challenges facing the Church and many reasons for hope.
In this lesson we learn about the Sacrament of Matrimony in which a baptized man and woman are joined together in a holy covenant. Christ raised this covenant to a Sacrament in which the couple receives grace to love one another as Christ loves the Church: permanently, faithfully, and fruitfully. We will come to understand the signs and effects and the form and minister of the Sacrament of Matrimony.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to learn that the Fifth Commandment tells us to acknowledge all life as a God-given gift. Keeping the Fifth Commandment not only means respecting physical life, but also the life of the soul, and safeguarding the dignity of all human persons. Your children will also learn that the Sixth Commandment requires us to be pure in the use of our sexuality. In creating man and woman in His image and likeness, God designed them to be a reflection of the intimate, free, and loving communion that is at the heart of the Trinity.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
The sins of pornography, prostitution, rape, the use of contraception, and abortion offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
Prayer comes from our heart, where we encounter God and enter into a conversation with Him.
