Spirit of Truth, Classic Edition > Grade 8 > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Male and Female: The Imago Dei
Human beings image God not only as individual persons, but most perfectly as male and female in a common union (communion) of love.
Human beings image God not only as individual persons, but most perfectly as male and female in a common union (communion) of love.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
Baptism is the foundation of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit.
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.”
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.
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 shows us the greatest expression of love: giving oneself completely to another, body and soul, and He calls us to love as He loves.
The virtue of chastity blossoms in friendship and shows us how to follow and imitate Christ.
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.
Marriage is the primordial sacrament in which the union of one man and one woman reveals an integral part of human nature that has been inscribed in our very bodies.
Prayer comes from our heart, where we encounter God and enter into a conversation with Him.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Confirmation.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
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.