Spirit of Truth, Parish Edition > Grade 7 > Unit 3
Session 30: Living the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
Jesus fulfills the Old Testament role of king, who was to rule justly according to the law of God. A king was to lead his people into relationship with God and right worship of Him.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
Matthew’s Gospel is an orderly and reliable historical account of Jesus’ life and teachings.
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.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.
By his nature, man needs society.
God intentionally and deliberately created each one of us.
We are made in the image of God, meaning that we are made for communion with God and each other.
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.
True happiness comes only from God, and is self-giving. Being Holy means living like Jesus.
Christ taught us to love God and our neighbor.
Jesus told His disciples that He would always be with them, and that we must be humble and open to the Holy Spirit.
Society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them.