Spirit of Truth, High School > Course VI > Unit 5
Chapter 16: The Sacraments
The seven Sacraments are the primary means by which God distributes His Grace.
The seven Sacraments are the primary means by which God distributes His Grace.
A disciple has the seeds of holiness instilled by the Sacraments, but a person must cooperate with the graces to mature as a Christian.
In Confirmation, the Holy Spirit descends on the disciple and empowers him or her to heroically live the Faith.
The Church has both a divine and human dimension.
We believe in Four Last Things: death, judgement, Heaven (and Purgatory), and Hell.
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.
Every human person has an inestimable value in the eyes of God.
After constant war, plague, and famine, the Middle Ages closed a tumultuous chapter in world history with a hopeful outlook toward the future.
The Industrial Revolution swept across the world turning societies into mass consumers and bringing economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges.
The Fathers of the Church are men who had a profound and lasting impact on the life and growth of the early Church because of their writings, orthodoxy, and personal holiness. There are eight great Fathers of the Church.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to discover that one of our greatest aids to prayer is to read the lives and writings of the saints. Their lives inspire us to lead holy lives, and their instructions can guide us on how to develop our prayer lives. The Church recognizes the saints in Heaven because they lived lives of heroic virtue—lives that should inspire us to imitate them. We know they are holy because they are in Heaven, and the way that they achieved this holiness was through an intimate life of prayer with God.
The saints give numerous examples of just how rich and varied the call to holiness looks among the members of the Church.
Every Christian is called to holiness. We have real examples of holiness in the saints.
Saints are people who lived before us, who loved and followed Jesus, and who are now in Heaven.
Vocations, or calls to various states of life, are not something received only by a select few. Rather, God calls each and every one of us to be holy.