Christ’s Mission Final Study Guide

  1. What does Jesus command of his followers?
  2. How is the Church part of God’s saving plan?
  3. How is salvation communal in nature?
  4. What does the word kyriake mean? To what does it refer?
  5. How did Paul make his message more understandable to an urban audience?
  6. What event marked the beginning of the Church’s mission on earth?
  7. Which are the three signs of the Holy Spirit in the Pentecost account? What does each represent?
  8. What is the threefold mission of the Spirit in the Church?
  9. What does the oneness of the Church say about diversity and unity?
  10. How is the oneness of the Church reflected in the creed?
  11. Where does the oneness of the Church come from?
  12. Which are the bonds of unity of the Church?
  13. What does the pope serve as a sign of?
  14. What are the sources of holiness in the Church?
  15. How have the saints contributed to the holiness of the Church?
  16. What does it mean to say the Church is Catholic?
  17. What does it mean to say the Church is Apostolic?
  18. What did Jesus commission his Apostles to do?
  19. How does ecumenism reflect the oneness of the Church?
  20. What is the Communion of Saints?
  21. Which are the three stages of sanctification?
  22. What is Purgatory?
  23. What do we learn when we read about the saints?
  24. What is the difference between veneration and worship?
  25. What does the Catholic Church’s dialogue with people of other faiths involve?
  26. What is the relationship with the Eastern Catholic Church? Eastern Orthodox Church?
  27. Why is Holy Orders necessary?
  28. What is the lay apostolate?
  29. Why is ecumenism important for Christians?
  30. How have saints supported the Church through history?
  31. Identify the Models of the Church and what each one represents
  32. Is the holiness of the Church affected by its members?
  33. The Church is Catholic because it possesses the fullness of what?
  34. What does the Apostolic nature of the Church insure?
  35. What does the Church teach about salvation, the Holy Spirit and those who aren’t Christians?
  36. What is the role of the Holy Spirit with respect to Church teaching?
  37. How is the teaching of the Church preserved?
  38. How is the Church’s diversity most evident?
  39. Why is the Church necessary for salvation?
  40. Why is the fullness of the Church found in the Catholic Church?
  41. How is the Church’s worship communal?
  42. What does it mean to say the Church reads the signs of the times?
  43. What is the culture of life?
  44. How are laypeople called to evangelize?
  45. What is inculturation in the Church?

  • Tradition
  • Infallibility
  • Hierarchy
  • Charism
  • One
  • Holy
  • Catholic
  • Apostolic
  • Sacramental grace
  • Sanctifying grace
  • Actual grace
  • Bishop
  • Laity
  • Apostolate

Part 4

  • Ministry
  • vocation
  • discernment
  • vow
  • doctrine

  1. Identify each and the ministry, primary duty, unique responsibilities of and who ordains each of the following:
  2. Deacon
  3. Priest
  4. Bishop
  5. Identify each of the following types of consecrated or religious life:
  6. Sisters
  7. Brothers
  8. Monks
  9. Nuns
  10. Apostolic Society
  11. Third Order
  12. Secular Institutes
  13. Hermits
  14. Consecrated Virgins or Widows
  15. Which are the three evangelical counsels? What does each mean?
  16. What is the process for becoming a priest?
  17. In what three primary areas do deacons serve?
  18. How does the laity participate in the mission of the Church?
  19. How is the family a “miniature church”?
  20. What is the meaning of the phrase “domestic church”? To what does it refer?
  21. What is the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
  22. Which are the 4 pillars of the Catechism? What does each one concern?
  23. What is indefectibility?
  24. What is infallibility?
  25. How does the pope proclaim infallible teaching?
  26. How is infallible authority expressed by the bishops of the Church?
  27. What is the relationship between all Church teaching?
  28. Describe dogma

Part 5

  • Sacred Chrism
  • Age of reason
  • Aspiration
  • Body of Christ
  1. Which are the 3 types of Sacraments? Which sacraments are included in each type?
  2. Why is prayer necessary?
  3. What does God teach us through the account of the fall?
  4. Why is a member of the Body of Christ never alone?
  5. What does it mean to say that Christians are the Salt of the Earth?
  6. What is the message of Dorothy Day?
  7. What is the rule given to us by Jesus?
  8. What are some ways the Holy Spirit has guided the Church?
  9. What do the gifts of the Holy Spirit help us to do?
  10. What is our final destination?

Canonization

  1. Which are some of the types of saints?
  2. Who were the earliest saints in the Church?
  3. What were the qualities of the confessors?
  4. What are the steps in the canonization process?
  5. For “Servants of God” to be canonized, proof is needed of what?
  6. Identify the following: liquification, odor of sanctity, incorruptibility, levitation
  7. Which are the miracles that occur during the life of a saint?
  8. What are the elements or parts of a canonization ceremony?