Religion study guide

Question 1

What was Israel enslaved to just before Jesus came?

Answer 1

-Their sins

Question 2

What is the story of the Incarnation a story of?

Answer 2

-Gods return to the beginning

Question 3

What did Pope Benedict call Mary?

Answer 3

-The “Glue” between the OT and NT

Question 4

What is the difference between the Annunciation and the Incarnation?

Answer 4

-The Annunciation is the moment of the incarnation

Question 5

Whose power causes Mary to conceive of Jesus?

Answer 5

-The holy spirit

Question 6

Was Mary forced to say yes?

Answer 6

-No

Question 7

What does “fiat” refer to?

Answer 7

-Permits the holy spirit to overshadow her (Mary) and she conceived Christ in her womb.

Question 8

Which two prophecies from the OT does the Annunciation fulfill?

Answer 8

-Isa 7:14
-Gen 3:15

Question 9

What are the three Marian Dogmas we talked about? Why are they important?

Answer 9

-Immaculate conception, perpetual virginity, and Mother of God. Each Marian dogma shows us something about Christ because everything Mary does points beyond herself to her son.

Question 10

What does Theotokos mean?

Answer 10

-God-bearer

Question 11

What does the Immaculate Conception have to do with the OT and Jesus?

Answer 11

-this has to do with the Ark of the Covenant and Mary being a dwelling for Jesus

Question 12

Which Scripture verse indicates Mary’s Immaculate Conception?

Answer 12

-Luke 1:26

Question 13

What does Mary’s virginity tell us about Jesus?

Answer 13

-It shows the birth of our Lord was miraculous, and Christ wouldnt have been fully divine and fully human if she wasn’t a virgin.

Question 14

What is the hypostatic union?

Answer 14

-Union of God+Man in one.

Question 15

What does Mary always do?

Answer 15

-Points to Jesus!

Question 16

What does it mean to say “the Word Became Flesh”?

Answer 16

-The Lord himself became flesh

Question 17

Who was Joseph?

Answer 17

-The father who raised Jesus

Question 18

What is important about genealogies?

Answer 18

• he is king over all humanity

Question 19

Who was John the Baptist?

Answer 19

-The last prophet, Jesus cousin

Question 20

Why does John leap in the womb of his mother?

Answer 20

-This was about the sanctification (baptism) of John the Baptist

Question 21

What do we call Mary visiting Elizabeth?

Answer 21

-The visitation

Question 22

What does the Visitation tell us about Mary?

Answer 22

-That Mary isn’t just pregnant but she is pregnant with the Son of God

Question 23

What does the birth of Christ tell us is important?

Answer 23

-His great humility and love

Question 24

How is Christ’s manger related to his Passion?

Answer 24

-It symbolizes his humbleness and poverty

Question 25

What does Christ give us at the Incarnation?

Answer 25

-Himself

Question 26

What is the meaning of Simeon’s prophecy at the Presentation?

Answer 26

-suffering for many+Jesus just like how Gen 3:15 promised.

Question 27

What do we call Jesus and Mary?

Answer 27

-The new Adam and Eve

Question 28

What does the Finding in the Temple foreshadow?

Answer 28

-The three days he was missing foreshadows the three days that he will be missing after death.

Question 29

At the Finding in the Temple, what does Jesus understand is most important regarding his mission?

Answer 29

-Obedience to his father

Question 30

What were the four reasons the Word became flesh?

Answer 30

-To reconcile us with God and take away our sin -To show God's infinite love for us -To model holiness for us -To make us partakers of the divine nature

Question 31

Original Sin was passed on to us through what?

Answer 31

-human nature (the body and soul)

Question 32

Why did God have to become man? What is this called?

Answer 32

-He does this to save us from our sins. This is called the Incarnation

Question 33

What does Christ give us? What is this an invitation to?

Answer 33

-Himself! An invitation to a relationship

Question 34

What does Jesus model for us?

Answer 34

-Jesus models to us what was made for humility and obedience.

Question 35

How does God love us?

Answer 35

-He wants us to have true, authentic, and real happiness.

Question 36

What is prayer?

Answer 36

-A way to communicate with God, brings us to union with God.

Question 37

What did Christ’s death do for our relationship with God?

Answer 37

-repaired it

Question 38

What does Christ living an ordinary life mean for us?

Answer 38

-That means ordinary life can be holy because Jesus made ordinary things extraordinary.

Question 39

What is so powerful about Scripture? Where is it used?

Answer 39

-Christ gave us his own words, written down in scripture and used in sacraments.

Question 40

What is compassion?

Answer 40

-To suffer with one another

Question 41

What does justification do?

Answer 41

-Justification detaches man from sin which contradicts the love of God, and purifies his heart of sin.

Question 42

What is grace?

Answer 42

-“God's own life in us” or “a participation in God's life”