Christ’s Love and Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day provides an opportunity for us to reflect on the love of Jesus Christ, which, through the grace of the Sacraments, nurtures and cultivates all other loves and relationships.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course VI > Unit 3
Chapter 11: The Law and Jesus' Church
The Magisteriums role is to proclaim, clarify, and explain Christs revelation and those actions that are incompatible with it.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course VI > Unit 2
Chapter 6: The Fourth and Fifth Commandments
The first three Commandments concentrate on our responsibilities toward God; the final seven highlight our responsibilities toward our neighbor, starting with our parents.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course IV > Unit 3
Chapter 7: The Church is One
The Church is one because God Himself is one.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course E > Unit 1
Chapter 3: The Fullness of the Means of Salvation and an Ecclesiology of Communion
The Church teaches that salvation is possible for those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course E > Unit 2
Chapter 8: The Catholic Church and Protestant Christians
The Protestant Reformation was sparked by Augustinian priest Martin Luther. More movements of reform and schism quickly swept across Europe and, as time went on, throughout the United States.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course D > Unit 1
Chapter 2: The Personal Call
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.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course D > Unit 3
Chapter 7: The Celebration of Marriage
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.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course D > Unit 3
Chapter 8: Living the Vocation of Married Love Faithfully
Marriage is the perfect and complete form of human friendship.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course D > Unit 3
Chapter 9: Church Teaching on Divorce
The Church understands marriage to be a covenant that remains binging on the spouses even if they feel the relationship has become difficult or unbearable. It is for this reason the Church believes marriage is an indissoluble union and does not recognize divorce.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course E > Unit 1
Chapter 2: The Divine Foundation of the Catholic Church
The Church includes those who belong to the Church on earth, the angels and saints in Heaven, and the souls in Purgatory.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course C > Unit 1
Chapter 2: Happiness in This Life
Happiness is only fully satisfied when we enter Heaven and live in union with God forever.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course C > Unit 3
Chapter 7: Call to Family, Community, and Participation
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.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course B > Unit 6
Chapter 16: Revolutions and Restorations
The Industrial Revolution swept across the world turning societies into mass consumers and bringing economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges.
Spirit of Truth, High School > Course B > Unit 7
Chapter 19: Renewing the Church
Following the grueling years of war and turmoil, the world and the Church needed renewal to move forward.
