Building a Civilization of Love

Question 1

Define agape.

Answer 1

The Greek term for unconditional and sacrificial love; the type of love with which God loves us.

Question 2

Define anthropology.

Answer 2

The overall study of man and what it means to be a human person.

Question 3

Define birth control.

Answer 3

Normally refers to the general method of preventing pregnancy through various ways of altering or changing the body’s natural state of fertility into a state of infertility.

Question 4

Define contraception.

Answer 4

Every action before, during, or after sexual intercourse that deliberately attempts to impede its procreative potential (CCC 2370).

Question 5

Define corporal works of mercy.

Answer 5

These are actions of love that meet the physical needs of others. The seven works include feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, visiting the imprisoned, giving drink to the thirsty, and burying the dead. The word “corporal” comes from the Latin word for body.

Question 6

Define encyclical.

Answer 6

A letter written by the pope, normally addressed to the bishops of the world (and sometimes to the wider audience of all the faithful), usually intended to teach or clarify a doctrine of the Faith.

Question 7

Define fornication.

Answer 7

Having sex outside of marriage.

Question 8

(Free, Total, Faithful, and Fruitful) Define free.

Answer 8

is love that is not controlled or manipulated by another person or by a disordered desire. No one is forcing you to love. You love freely because you want to.

Question 9

(Free, Total, Faithful, and Fruitful) Define total.

Answer 9

is love without strings attached that holds nothing back. In total love, you make a gift of yourself to another – total self-donation.

Question 10

(Free, Total, Faithful, and Fruitful) Define faithful.

Answer 10

Love that is committed. That commitment guides all other actions. You keep your promises once you have made them, no matter how your feelings may change.

Question 11

(Free, Total, Faithful, and Fruitful) Define fruitful.

Answer 11

Love that is life-giving, because it is free, total, and faithful. It is open to procreation in the physical realm and is life-giving in the spiritual and emotional realm as well.

Question 12

Define humanae vitae.

Answer 12

Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on human life. It is most famous for its clear and definitive teaching on why contraception is immoral and sinful, explaining that it separates the sexual act from one if its intrinsic purposes: procreation.

Question 13

Define language of the body.

Answer 13

The capability of the body to speak its own language and to communicate without words.

Question 14

Define language of love.

Answer 14

Generally speaking, the words that speak truth and compassion. Specifically regarding the body, the truth and totality of self, communicated through the body in sexual intercourse.

Question 15

Define natural family planning (NFP).

Answer 15

The term referring to various effective, natural, and moral methods for achieving or postponing pregnancy.

Question 16

Define one flesh union.

Answer 16

The loving embrace of a married couple through sexual intercourse, in which they become “one flesh” (see Genesis 2:24). The Scriptures teach that this union prefigures the total communion we will have with God in heaven (see Ephesians 5:31-32).

Question 17

Define New Evangelization.

Answer 17

A term referring to the special need to share the Gospel with new enthusiasm, new methods and new expressions. The new evangelization is not a new Gospel, but it recognizes that as the world changes, the method for sharing the Good News need to change if they are to be effective.

Question 18

Define pornography.

Answer 18

The sexually-explicit depiction of persons, in words or images, created in order to cause the arousal of lust on the part of the observer.

Question 19

Define promidial sacrament.

Answer 19

The sacrament of Marriage as it was in the beginning – the original revelation of God’s love in the world.

Question 20

Define sacraments.

Answer 20

In the broadest sense this is God’s loving presence made visible in our lives. For example, in marriage, the two people getting married not only receive the sacrament they become a sacrament, a visible sign of God’s love in the world.

Question 21

Define spousal analogy.

Answer 21

The scriptural imagery using the earthly understanding of marriage to convey the power and fidelity of God’s love for humans and Christ’s love for the Church.

Question 22

Define submission.

Answer 22

Placing oneself “under the mission” of another, surrendering to someone. In the case of marriage, this means deferring to each other in love. For the wife, it means allowing her husband to love her as Christ loved the Church – to the point of death. In the case of the husband, it means serving his wife and loving her at all costs.