Catechism Corner

The man on the island who never heard the Gospel Message.... How could a good and loving God condemn to hell someone who’s never heard of him?

Lesson 1 Part 1 This lesson will lead you to be able to accurately answer the following important questions and can totally revolutionize your appreciation for the Bible. How did God go about revealing His thoughts and truths to man? What evidence do we have that the Bible is God's words to us? Why do we call the Bible by that name?

Because the Father is one He is the source of the entire Trinity He is unbegotten. There is no source of the Father's existence other than Himself. As some of the early Christians put it He is divine. He is unbegotten and His origin is in Himself....

Actual sin is the sin we commit ourselves. In the Baltimore Catechism it says that actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission forbidden by the law of God.

Every fruit of the redemption won by Christ, every grace from on high comes through our lady. In fact, all of us are co redeemers in some way, when we bring our children to be baptized, or we help a soul convert to the true faith, or when we give instruction to a soul in error. We can call down and apply the fruits of the redemption through our prayers and sacrifices.

Today, we look at Genesis chapter three and the fall of man and the resulting punishment that comes to all of us through that original sin.

The creation accounts are foundational for our Catholic faith, and for us to understand the history of our salvation.

Angels are a host of beings so numerous they can't be counted. We see an awesome picture of this in Daniel's description of God on the throne as Judge: "A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him, thousands upon thousands were attending Him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him" (Daniel 7:10)

Angels are pure spirit, but that doesn't mean they are just floating apparitions. Angels are personal beings, and likewise, the evil angels did not lose their person-hood, when they became demons.

The beautiful thing that we're really going to notice is this; how ordered the creation of God really is. How it all fits together. That there's a hierarchal order both in the spiritual and the material universes

Hello and welcome to lesson three where we are unlocking the truths that we find in the Baltimore Catechism. In particularly we will be studying the subject, The unity, and Trinity of God. Many of us adults try to wrap our brain around this great mystery of our faith, this supernatural divine mystery.

Now the overarching theme in this lesson will be how can you and I know about God? There are two ways that we can come to know about God. Actually, there are many, but we're going to start with just these first two. The first one is through faith, and the second way is through reason....

The Baltimore Catechism says that He's an infinitely perfect spirit and that there's no limit to his perfections or attributes or good qualities. When we say that God is pure spirit, what are we saying?

So the title of our lesson is the purpose of man's existence. And I really think that this is both a fitting and necessary lesson to start with. Now it's a good lesson to start out with for two reasons first because the end of the thing is the purpose for which it was made. And the second reason why this lesson is important is because of the state of the world right now, with all the division, the confusion, fear, anxiety.

This lesson is going to serve as an introduction to the Baltimore catechism number two. I want you to stay with me here, because I know that some of your eyes might've just glazed over, because if you're anything like me, when we hear the word catechism, we might think of school. But remember, the more that we know someone, the more that we can love them, and this is even more true for God. The more that we know God, the more that we love him. And by loving him, we can better serve Him who made us.

The Love Of God The foundation for our catholic faith is God's unchanging love for us. "Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us." (1 John 4:19). Our faith needs to be founded firmly upon the fact - that all of God's dealings with us are based upon His love.

Faith in the most simplistic and basic terms means reaching out our hand and receiving what God is offering us. What is faith? Faith is our hand reaching up to take that help that forgiveness, that strength and those blessings from God's hands.

It has been observed that the home is the foundational stone upon which is built the Church, the community and the nation. It is also true the husband/father’s heart has a profound influence on the quality of the home. Thus ultimately, all institutions are influenced by how men walk with God. When a husband chooses to bring the Word and the mysteries of the rosary consistently into everyday life, God changes lives.

Taking care of a responsibility in bread winning and homemaking without succumbing to materialism and greed.

I want to focus on the word "redeemed." That is part of the heart and soul of Catholicism, redemption. The Churches message is a message of redemption. When we present the gospel, we should present it with redemption being the center of our presentation. It's one of the great words, it's one of the great titles of Christ, Christ our Redeemer. The question is whether or not we really understand the fullness of the word redemption.