Spirit of Truth, Parish Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 3
Session 29: The Story of Holy Matrimony
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
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.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
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.
The Eucharist fulfills our Lord’s promise to give us Himself, the Bread of Life.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Grace is the free, undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become His adopted sons and daughters, and sharers in His divine and eternal life.
The Sacrament of Baptism is essential for salvation and is the ordinary means of salvation.
The sins of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and homosexual activity offend the unitive and procreative purposes of marriage and diminish the goods of marital love.
The Mass is a representation of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross.
The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
The Church is an enduring sign of salvation and is the very instrument of our salvation.
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.