CATHOLIC STUDIES TEST Flashcards
Define raya
It means freind, solmate, and companion in english. It is freind in love.
Define Ahava
A deep effection that is as strong as death. It is when you make a decision of connecting your life to someone els. An act of will.
Define dod
Physical sexual effection. The fisscal commitment to sex.
Why are the raw fleelings like attraction, not enouh to base a relationship on?
You need to trust jesus, make disicitions and no what is good, have commitment set boundries, make sacrifices.
How did jpII define love?
Not just a feeling but an act of will that consists of preferring, In a constant manner, the good for others to the good of oneself.
describe the 4 aspects of love?
- love as attreaction: seeing the good of another person.
- love as desire: Wanting good for yourself through desiring union with the beloved.
- Love as good will: willing the good of another person.
- Spousal love: Giving yourself to another person completly.
Explain how chsity “Frees us to love and frees us to know if we’re being loved”?
Helps us to look at a person as a whole and fellow human being.
what charicterizes agape love?
Gods faithful love.
what is utilitariansim?
Using people for ones own gain.
What characterizes chasity?
A virtue that frees us from the selfish attitude of using others/ thus making us capable of love.
hod did JPII use the term ‘total self-donating’?
active dcisions to give oneself to another and to another and to do so totaly.
what is the point of modesty?
How we present yourself to god, others, with bod, speech.
What happens when we welcome christ into our lifes?
Everything is filled with meening , love , and purpose.
who are the saints of life?
Daughters of God,brides of Christ, and spiritual mothers to souls.
what does being pro-life mean?explain
when we hounor life from the begging of conseption.