Chapter 9

Question 1

What did Jesus select 12 of?

Answer 1

Apostles

Question 2

What does the word “apostle” mean?

Answer 2

Tribes of Israel

Question 3

What was the background of most of the Apostles?

Answer 3

Lower-class, humble people

Question 4

How does Jesus summarize the Ten Commandments in Matthew 22:36-40?

Answer 4

1. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind
2. You shall love your neighbor as yourself

Question 5

How do we practice the virtue of religion?

Answer 5

• Adoration
• Prayer
• Works of sacrifice
• keeping our promises and vows

Question 6

What are the evangelical councils?

Answer 6

Vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Question 7

What sins does the first commandment help us turn away from?

Answer 7

Sins against faith like heresy, apostasy, and denial of Christ

Question 8

What is despair?

Answer 8

God will not or cannot forgive a person of his or her sins

Question 9

What is a sin against charity?

Answer 9

Ingratitude

Question 10

True or False? When we honor God’s holy name we are honoring the One behind the name, including the name of Jesus Christ, the Blessed Mother, and the saints

Answer 10

True

Question 11

How does the Praying the Sign of the Cross help us?

Answer 11

Our own names are sanctified. We become the Lord’s disciples with tremendous dignity

Question 12

Blasphemy

Answer 12

Any thought, word, or act that expresses contempt for God, Christ, the Church, Saints, or holy things. (Greatly dis honors God)

Question 13

Perjury

Answer 13

Dishonors God’s holy name by calling on God to witness a lie (sin that can never be justified)

Question 14

How do Catholics honor the third commandment?

Answer 14

Celebrating the Eucharistic liturgy on Sunday, the day of the Lord’s Resurrection

Question 15

Why are Catholics required to attend Mass on Sunday’s?

Answer 15

To deepen the unity in Christ

Question 16

Why is the family called the Domestic church?

Answer 16

The family mirrors the love and unity of the Blessed Trinity. Charity begins at home

Question 17

What does the 5th commandment demand that we do?

Answer 17

We respect life from the first moment of conception until natural death.

Question 18

What acts violate the fifth commandment?

Answer 18

• Abortion
• Murder
• Euthanasia
• Assisted suicide

Question 19

What is the grave sin of scandal?

Answer 19

An attitude or act that helps lead others to commit evil

Question 20

The sixth and ninth commandments both teach us how to use our ___________ in accord with ____________ ____________. God gave his ____________ to married couples so that they can____________ _____________ ______________ and cooperate with God in bringing forth ____________ ____________.

Answer 20

• Sexuality
• God’s Plan
• Gift
• Share their love
• New life

Question 21

What specific sins are forbidden by the seventh and tenth commandments?

Answer 21

• Theft
• Unjust wages
• Corruption
• Vandalism

Question 22

What does covetousness lead to?

Answer 22

Immortal attitudes like greed and envy over another’s possessions

Question 23

What is the focus of the eighth commandment?

Answer 23

Truth-telling

Question 24

What does being truthful lead to?

Answer 24

Respect

Question 25

What is lying contrary to?

Answer 25

Speech

Question 26

What destroys the integrity of a person?

Answer 26

- Gossiping | - Lying

Question 27

Detraction

Answer 27

Reveals the faults of someone else

Question 28

What are the four things Jesus taught about what it means to be a disciple?

Answer 28

1. Put personal desires aside 2. Accept suffering 3. Serve others 4. Love enemies

Question 29

What does Acts 2:42-47 tell us about how the early Christians practiced their faith?

Answer 29

1. Teaching of Apostles 2. Broke bread together 3. Prayed and worshipped God

Question 30

What were Christians called in the first century?

Answer 30

Men who have urged the world upside down

Question 31

Recounts how the early Church grew under the guidance of the Holy Spirit

Answer 31

Acts of the Apostles

Question 32

- Jesus ascended into heaven - Holy Spirit was with the apostles - Jesus asked them to witness

Answer 32

Ascension

Question 33

The election of Matthias

Answer 33

They castes lots before they decided to pray

Question 34

Tongues of fire

Answer 34

Pentecost

Question 35

The name of Christians in Antioch

Answer 35

The Way

Question 36

Philip baptized the Ethiopian official

Answer 36

Book of Isaiah is prophesying Jesus, Holy Scripture, Baptism, suffering Servant

Question 37

Peter baptizing Cornelius

Answer 37

Jesus is for all the Gentiles, message to the Gentiles

Question 38

Council of Jerusalem

Answer 38

First council of the church, Gentiles don't have to be circumcised

Question 39

How did the early Christians live their lives?

Answer 39

They didn't withdraw from the world, they were not enslaved by it

Question 40

Why did the early Church grow in numbers?

Answer 40

1. Gave good example 2. See how they love one another 3. Diaspora (scattering of the Jews) 4. Pax Romana (peace of Rome)

Question 41

Mass

Answer 41

Said at home, catacombs, outside

Question 42

Holy Days

Answer 42

Wed. Fri.

Question 43

Catacombs

Answer 43

Underground tunnels, shrines and places of worship

Question 44

Christian symbols

Answer 44

- ship - anchor - fish - good shepherd

Question 45

Church Leadership

Answer 45

Presbyters (priests)

Question 46

Slavery

Answer 46

Two popes=ex slaves, opposed slavery

Question 47

Marriage

Answer 47

Should help each other get into heaven

Question 48

Didache

Answer 48

Lord's teaching

Question 49

Who was present at the stoning of Stephen?

Answer 49

Paul (Saul)

Question 50

When was Peter present?

Answer 50

1. Transfiguration 2. Jesus calming the storm 3. Denied Jesus 3 times

Question 51

Ad Lumina

Answer 51

Bishops visit the tombs of Peter and Paul every 5 years

Question 52

Quo Vadis

Answer 52

Peter's encounter with Christ (leaving from Rome; crucified upside down)

Question 53

Matthew 16:17-18

Answer 53

Peter Says, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God" Beginning of the succession of the Pope

Question 54

Who did St. Paul have an encounter with?

Answer 54

The Risen Jesus

Question 55

Who did St. Paul preach the Gospel to?

Answer 55

Roman Empire

Question 56

What makes up the majority of the New Testament?

Answer 56

St. Paul's Letters

Question 57

What does Christian Tradition call St. Paul?

Answer 57

Apostles to the Gentiles

Question 58

What sacraments does St. Paul mention?

Answer 58

1. Confirmation 2. Eucharist 3. Marriage 4. Reconciliation