Catholic Christianity Flashcards
(167 cards)
1
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“Love your neighbour as yourself”
A
Matthew/Mark
2
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“Whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it”
A
Catechism of the Catholic Church
3
Q
“Creation can only be understood as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all”
A
Laudato Si
4
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“Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred”
A
Catechism of the Catholic Church
5
Q
“God made man from dust”
A
Genesis 2
6
Q
“Be fruitful and multiply”
A
Genesis 1
7
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“Till it and keep it”
A
Genesis 2
8
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“Let them have dominion”
A
Genesis 1
9
Q
“God said…and it was so”
A
Genesis 1
10
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“If methodical investigation…is carried out in a genuinely scientific manner and in accord with moral norms it never truly conflicts with faith [as they] derive from the same God”
A
Gaudium et Spes
11
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“It is not good that man should be alone”
A
Genesis 2
12
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“This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”
A
Genesis 2
13
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“If we acknowledge the value and the fragility of nature and, at the same time, our God-given abilities, we can finally leave behind the modern myth of unlimited material progress”
A
Laudato Si
14
Q
“God blessed them…it was good”
A
Genesis 1
15
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“The world is a gift which we have freely received and must share with others. Since the world has been given to us, we can no longer view reality in a purely utilitarian way”
A
Laudato Si
16
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“[there is] a relationship of mutual responsibility between humans and nature”
A
Laudato Si
17
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“If people are to do good and avoid evil, certainty about what is good and evil must be inscribed in them”
A
Youcat
18
Q
“Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat”
A
Genesis 2
19
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“The world is a gift which we have freely received and must share with others”
A
Laudato Si
20
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“Everything asserted by inspired authors or sacred writers must be considered asserted by the Holy Spirit”
A
Dei Verbum
21
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“Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation”
A
Laudato Si
(Pope Francis quoting South African bishops)
22
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“The man gave names to all living creature”
A
Genesis 2
23
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“Bottom up approach”
A
Pope Francis
24
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“Let there be light…and there was light”
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Genesis 1
25
“I [Jesus] will be with you until the end of time”
Matthew
26
“God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”
Genesis 2
27
“A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible grace”
St Augustine
28
“Sacred Scriptures are the word of God”
Dei Verbum
29
“The murder of a human being is gravely contrary to the dignity of the person and the holiness of the creator”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
30
“All believers of whatever religion always hear His revealing voice in the discourse of creatures”
Gaudium et Spes
31
“The misuse of the natural world is a kind of blasphemy, destroying that which was part of God’s plan”
St Pope John Paul II
32
“No man is an island”
John Donne
33
“He supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills/ He provides food for the cattle”
Psalm 147
34
“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime.”
CAFOD’s Common Saying
35
“Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received”
1 Peter
36
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength”
Matthew/Mark
37
“Those who yearn for the Kingdom of God look to Jesus’ list of priorities: the Beatitudes”
Youcat
38
“Whoever has seen me [Jesus] has seen the Father”
John
39
“He is with the Father from the beginning”
St Irenaeus - 'Against Heresies'
40
“Prayer is turning the heart toward God. When a person prays, he enters into a living relationship with God”
Youcat
41
“I have not come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfill”
Matthew
42
“Fine arts are considered among the noblest activities of man’s genius…[with] THE SINGLE AIM OF TURNING MEN’S MINDS DEVOUTLY TOWARDS GOD”
Sacrosanctum Concilium
43
“The Lord is our God, the Lord alone”
Deuteronomy
44
“God’s love wants our free assent”
Youcat
45
“They [sacraments] bear fruit”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
46
”[sacraments are] an outward sign of inward grace…by which grace is given to our souls”
Catechism of Christian Doctrine
47
“Sacred song united to the words…forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy”
Sacrosanctum Concilium
48
“He who sings prays twice”
St Augustine
49
“God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts”
Galatians
50
“We have been buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in the newness of life”
Romans (St Paul)
51
“King Solomon knelt in prayer”
1 Kings
52
“[Sacraments are] powers come forth [from the body of Christ]; masterworks [of God]”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
53
“The Triune God in Himself is a ‘social’, a communion, an eternal exchange of love”
Youcat
54
“[the Word] revealed God to men and presented men to God”
St Irenaeus - 'Against Heresies'
55
“You shall not make unto yourself any graven image”
Exodus (2nd Commandment)
56
“Sacred music is to be considered the more holy in proportion as it is more closely connected with the liturgical action, whether IT ADDS DELIGHT TO PRAYER, FOSTERS UNITY OF MINDS, or confers greater solemnities upon the sacred rites”
Sacrosanctum Concilium
57
“Grace is favour, the free and undeserved help that God gives us”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
58
“The Son is the image of the invisible God”
Corinthians
59
“We know that God is triune from Jesus Christ: He, the Son, speaks about his Father in Heaven. He prays to him and sends us THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS THE LOVE OF THE FATHER AND THE SON.”
Youcat
60
“Moses prayed with his hands outstretched”
Exodus
61
“If you see charity, you see the Trinity”
St Augustine
62
“The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words”
Romans (St Paul)
63
“Abraham fell on his face before God”
Genesis 17
64
“Those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also”
1 John
65
“THE ENTIRE ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH IS AN EXPRESSION OF A LOVE that seeks the integral good of man…Love is therefore the service that the Church carries out in order to attend constantly to man's sufferings and his needs, including material needs.”
Deus Caritas Est (Pope Benedict XVI)
66
“[prayer is] raising the heart and mind to God”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
67
“Baptism is the way out of the kingdom of Death into life, the gateway to the Church, and the beginning of a lasting communion with God”
Youcat
68
“The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant especially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore… it should be given pride of place in liturgical services”
Sacrosanctum Concilium
69
“[Abraham] worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth”
Genesis 17
70
“For those who do not love a brother or sister they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen”
1 John
71
“God is love”
1 John (used by St Augustine)
72
“Go in the world and preach the Gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Mark (to support evangelism & baptism)
73
"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leapt in her womb"
Luke: The Visitation (to support pro-life)
74
“Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace…Joseph, Son of David…the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit…you are to name Him Jesus”
Matthew
(was written for Jewish Christians, for whom women had limited roles, so more focus on Joseph's role in Jesus' birth)
75
“You will name Him Jesus…He will be called the Son of the Most High…The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you…let it be with me according to your word”
Luke: The Annunciation
(was written for Gentile Christians, for whom women had higher value, so focus on Mary's role in Jesus' birth)
76
Solar panels & rain water harvesting system used to light and heat church
2011
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Peter the Apostle, England
77
Thousands of solar panels on roof of Vatican
2008
to help regulate light and temperature
decreased Vatican’s carbon emissions by about 200 tonnes per year
78
United Nations Sustainability Goals
eg. No poverty
Quality Education
Gender Equality
79
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of God”
Matthew : Beautitudes
80
“Whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me”
Matthew : Parable of Sheep and Goats
81
“Whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me”
Matthew : Parable of Sheep and Goats
82
“God created mankind in His image”
Genesis 1
83
“These then will be sent off to eternal punishments, but the righteous ones will go to eternal life”
Matthew : Parable of Sheep and Goats
84
“In His perfect humanity, Jesus does the will of the Father at all times”
Verbum Domini (Pope Benedict XVI)
85
“To see Jesus is to see His Father…He confirmed that God is with us to free us from the darkness of sin and death and to raise us up to life eternal”
Dei Verbum
86
“He knows the Father and He keeps His word”
Verbum Domini (Pope Benedict XVI)
87
“Because death is now no longer the end of everything, joy and hope came into the world”
Youcat
88
“Conscience is the inner voice in a man…in the conscience God speaks to man”
Youcat
89
“Christ, our Redeemer, chose the Cross so as to bear the guilt of the world and to suffer the pain of the world. So He brought the world home to God by His perfect love”
Youcat
90
“Unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you”
John
91
“One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out”
John
92
“Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (St John the Baptist)
John
93
“There he is alone with God, Whose voice echoes in his depths. In wonderful manner, conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbour”
Gaudium et Spes
94
“The more right conscience holds sway, the more persons…strive to be guided by the objective norms of morality”
Gaudium et Spes
95
“I confess to Almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned…”
Penitential Act said at Mass
96
“Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us/grant us peace”
Agnus Dei
(also said by St John the Baptist in John)
97
“Take this all of you and eat of it for it is my Body, which will be given up for you…Take this all of you and drink from it, for this is the Chalice of my Blood, the Blood of new and eternal life, which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sin, do this in memory of me”
Words of Initiation and Consecration
(from the Gospels)
98
“Personal conscience and reason should not be set in opposition to the moral law or the Magisterium of the Church”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
99
“The Eucharist is a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Father”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
100
“The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many”
Matthew/Mark
101
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew/Mark
102
“The curtain in the Temple was torn in two”
Matthew/Mark
103
“Darkness came over the whole land”
Matthew/Mark
104
“Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
Luke
105
“Therefore just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. FOR JUST AS ONE MAN’S DISOBEDIENCE THE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS, SO BY ONE MAN’S OBEDIENCE THE MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS”
Romans (St Paul)
106
“But the free gift is not like the trespass”
Romans (St Paul)
107
“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned”
Romans (St Paul)
108
“Buried with Him…crucified with Him”
Romans (St Paul)
109
“[Jesus] humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death - even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted Him”
Phillipians (St Paul)
110
“Risen with Him”
Collosians (St Paul)
111
“Not to go to Communion is like someone dying of thirst beside a spring”
St John Vianney
112
"Suffering Servant"
Isaiah
113
“Where there are two or three gathered in my name, I am there with them”
Matthew
114
“When you pray go into your room, shut your door, and pray to your Father Who is unseen. And your Father Who sees what is done in secret, will reward you”
Matthew
115
“Worship is not tied exclusively to any one place. The whole Earth is sacred and entrusted to the children of men”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
116
“Christ is mysteriously but really present in the Eucharist”
Youcat
117
“If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins”
Corinthians (St Paul)
118
“the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
119
“The world will not see me anymore but you will see me”
John
120
“Someone who goes on a pilgrimage ‘prays with their feet’ and experiences with all his sense that his entire life is one long journey to God”
Youcat
121
“You are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it”
Corinthians (St Paul)
122
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friend”
John
123
“You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church…whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven”
”
Matthew
124
“The Kingdom of God is among you”
Luke
125
“THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sister, DEMANDS THAT WE CONFRONT EVERY FROM OF POLARISATION WHICH WOULD DIVIDE IT INTO…TWO CAMPS”
Pope Francis (2015)
126
“When we pray ‘Thy Kingdom come’, we call for Christ to come again as he promised, and for God’s reign, which has already begun here on Earth, to prevail definitively”
Youcat
127
“A kingdom of truth and light…holiness and grace…justice, love and peace”
Mass - Preface of our Lord, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
128
“The production and showing of films that have value as descent entertainment, humane culture or art, especially when they are designed for young people, ought to be encouraged”
Inter Mirifica
129
“Peace is but an empty word, if it does not rest upon that order which…is founded on truth, built up on justice, nurtured and animated by charity, and brought into effect under the auspices of freedom”
Pacem in Terris
130
The Second Vatican Council was called to “open the windows of the Church”
Pope John XXIII
131
“Give the king Your justice, O God”
Psalm 72
132
“Goods created by God for everyone should in fact reach everyone”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
133
“The college of body of bishops has no authority unless it is understood together with the Roman Pontiff [the Pope], the successor of Peter, at its head”
Lumen Gentium
134
“Many things have to change course, but it is we human beings above all who need to change”
Laudato Si
135
“We need a poor Church for the poor”
Pope Francis
136
“God does not damn men. Man himself is the one who refuses God’s merciful love and voluntarily deprives himself of life”
Youcat
137
“Hell is the condition of everlasting separation from God”
Youcat
138
“The body decays while the soul goes to meet God and waits to be reunited with its risen body on the Last Day”
Youcat
139
“Heaven is the endless moment of love”
Youcat
140
“Through the universal priesthood, every Christian is called to work in God’s name and bring blessings and grace to it”
Youcat
141
“The Church is holy not because all her members are supposedly holy, but rather because God is holy and is at work in her. ALL MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH ARE SANCTIFIED BY BAPTISM”
Youcat
142
“The Union is so strong that is joins [Christ] and us like the head and members of a human body and makes us one”
Youcat
143
“The Last Judgement will take place at the end of the world, at the second coming of Christ”
Youcat
144
“If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body”
Corinthians
145
“Since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being. As in Adam all die, so in Christ all with made alive”
Corinthians
146
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit…now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good”
Corinthians
147
[Jesus prayed about His disciples] “that they may all be one”
John
148
“He said to His mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then He said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother’”
John
149
“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also”
John
150
“Nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their [the followers of Christ’s] hearts”
Gaudium et Spes
151
“When man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of created order”
St Pope John Paul II
152
“May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts”
priest at Easter Vigil
153
“By His holy and glorious wounds, may Christ our Lord guard us and protect us”
priest at Easter Vigil
154
“Christ yesterday and today; the Beginning and the End; the Alpha and the Omega”
priest at Easter Vigil
155
“This child of yours has been enlightened by Christ… May s/he keep the flame of faith alive in his/her heart. When the Lord come, may s/he go out to meet Him with all the saints in the Heavenly kingdom”
priest at Baptism
156
“[in death] life is changed not ended”
Preface for the Dead
157
“One, holy, catholic and apostolic Church”
Nicene Creed
158
“God predestines no-one to Hell; for this, a willful turning away from God is necessary and persistence in it until the end”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
159
“Whoever holds out to the end will be saved”
Mark
160
“The Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken” [the Second Coming of Christ]
Mark
161
“Since however we know not the day nor the hour, on our Lord’s advice we must constantly be vigilant”
Lumen Gentium
162
“The eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels…eternal punishment”
Matthew [Parable of the Sheep and Goats]
163
“Today we… have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality”
Evangelii Gaudium
164
“I am not dying. I am entering life.”
St Therese of Lisieux
165
“It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well”
Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
166
“Eternal rest grant upon them Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them”
Catholic prayer for the dead
167
“Our vision, which is inspired by Christ’s message to love our neighbour as ourselves, is for individuals and families…to have hope, together with a sense of dignity, worth, well-being and peace of mind”
St Vincent de Paul Society
