Chapter 3: The Triune God

Question 1

What does the second Vatican council stress about music in worship?

Answer 1

• it unites people in praise
• can make worship feel joyous or solemn
• increases the beauty of worship
• helps people to feel more involved in worship
• inspires people to praise god

Question 2

What are the 5 types of music in the catholic liturgy (practices and rituals that happen during the communal worship of god)?

Answer 2

• psalms
• plainchant
• traditional hymns
• contemporary worship songs
• mass settings

Question 3

What are psalms?

Answer 3

• pieces of poetry from the Old Testament
• centre around the praise of god
• recognise that everything comes from god

Question 4

what is plainchant?

Answer 4

• ancient form of music sung unaccompanied
• sung in Latin

Question 5

What are traditional hymns?

Answer 5

• religious songs that praise god
• have been used for generations of believers
• sung to be accompanied with organ
• have stood the test of time

Question 6

What are contemporary worship songs?

Answer 6

• recently written upbeat songs that praise god
• appealing
• can be seen as disrespectful because its upbeat nature can distract people from focusing in god

Question 7

What are mass settings?

Answer 7

• the parts of the mass that are sung rather than said
• include the alleluia, the Sanctus and the Gloria

Question 8

What do the Gloria, alleluia and Sanctus all have in common?

Answer 8

• hymns to praise gods glory, goodness and holiness

Question 9

What are the events of the baptism of Jesus? Mathew

Answer 9

• Jesus was baptised
• heavens opened
• Holy Spirit descended like a dove
• settled on Jesus
• a voice from heaven said “This is my son, th beloved, with whom I am well pleased”

Question 10

When does god reveal himself as the trinity?

Answer 10

At Jesus’ baptism

Question 11

How are the father, the son and the Holy Spirit shown in the baptism of Jesus?

Answer 11

• Holy Spirit - represented by a dove that comes down from god to stay with Jesus (the love that unites the father and the son)
• that father - the voice from heaven
• the son - the father calls Jesus his son

Question 12

What is the nicene creed?

Answer 12

• a statement of faith about what catholics belive that explains the nature of the trinity and how the three person relate to eachother

Question 13

What are some key teachings in the nicene creed?

Answer 13

• the Holy Spirit gives life to all things (I belive in the holy spirt, the lord, the giver of life)
• the son became human out of love (for out sake, he was crucified under Pontus Pilate)

Question 14

How does Genesis one show that all persons were involved in creation?

Answer 14

• ‘god created the heavens and the earth’ God in this context is referring to the father
• ‘wind from god’ the Holy Spirit
• god created the world with the power of his Word, Christian’s interpret this as a reference to the son

Question 15

The Holy Spirit is the ….of the father and the son. It enters peoples lives as….. And inspires them to…… love to others

Answer 15

Love
Grace
Show

Question 16

What is mission?

Answer 16

• sending out people to help others

Question 17

How do missionaries share god love?

Answer 17

• through their actions -> working with people in poverty by providing education
• “those who love god must love their brothers and sisters also”

Question 18

what is evangelism?

Answer 18

• preaching good news about Jesus to other people

Question 19

What are evangelists inspired to do from the Holy Spirit?

Answer 19

• share their knowledge of god’s l;ove with others
• Jesus last instructions were ‘make disciples of all nations’

Question 20

Who was st Augustine?

Answer 20

A Christian theologian who wrote about the trinity

Question 21

what are the three things to have love, according to st Augustine?

Answer 21

• the person who loves, the person who is loved, and the love that unties them

Question 22

How does the Holy Spirit share gods love with all people?

Answer 22

• pours out into the hearts and lives of believers

Question 23

Who was Catherine lacugna?

Answer 23

A Christian theologian who wrote about the trinity

Question 24

What does Catherine lacugna focus on?

Answer 24

• how the trinity is revealed to humans as god’s attempt to redeem them

Question 25

What did Catherine lacugna think the best way to know god was?

Answer 25

• through understanding god’s actions in peoples lives

Question 26

Who places more importance on the outward effects of the trinity, lacugna or st Augustine?

Answer 26

Catherine lacugna

Question 27

The council of Nicaea was held to help confirm the church’s teachings about what?

Answer 27

• a council held to help confirm the church’s teachings about the nature of the trinity

Question 28

What did the council of Nicaea confirm?

Answer 28

• the son is eternally begotten from the father
• the father and son have always co-existed together
• they are both equal and of the same nature

Question 29

What did the council of Constantinople confirm?

Answer 29

• th Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity and fully god
• Jesus is both fully god and fully human

Question 30

What does baptism symbolise?

Answer 30

• the start of a new stage of life as a Christian and a child of god
• joining in with Jesus’ death and resurrection

Question 31

Why is baptism important?

Answer 31

• it cleanses a person of all their sins
• it fills them with the HS, helping them resist evil
• signifies a person becoming a member of the church
• shares the life of the father, son and holy spiritual

Question 32

What is prayer?

Answer 32

Raising the heart and mind to god

Question 33

“When a person prays he enters into a….” YOUCAT

Answer 33

• …loving relationship with god”

Question 34

Give some facts about prayer. (opening up, conversation, inspired)

Answer 34

• when a person opens up to god and communicates with him, listening for his answer
• inspired by the Holy Spirit
• a conversation between a person and god

Question 35

What are the two types of prayer?

Answer 35

• spontaneous
• traditional