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Question 1

God transforms and strengthens us as individuals to grow in love and live according to our dignity as His adopted children.

Answer 1

We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit

Question 2

God sent the spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’ So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.

Answer 2

We are destined to share in God’s Eternal life

Question 3

Christ saved us by showing us what it means to love and empowering us to overcome the power of sin.

Answer 3

We have been redeemed by Christ

Question 4

God is present to us through His Holy Spirit within us.

Answer 4

We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit

Question 5

The love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us”. (Rom 5:5).

Answer 5

We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit

Question 6

By His Resurrection, Christ opened the way so that we, too, may share in His new life as adopted sons and daughters of the Father.

Answer 6

We have been redeemed by Christ

Question 7

He Himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness.

Answer 7

We have been redeemed by Christ

Question 8

Christ has shown us through His Paschal mystery that what makes us truly human is not our self-centeredness and sin but our capacity to love.

Answer 8

We have been redeemed by Christ

Question 9

All persons belong to God’s family and are destined to share in the happiness and freedom of God’s children.

Answer 9

We are destined to share in God’s Eternal life

Question 10

Thus every person we meet is a brother or sister in Christ Jesus, through whom we gain adoption as the Father’s sons and daughters.

Answer 10

We are destined to share in God’s Eternal life

Question 11

In and through Jesus Christ, God has redeemed us as individuals and as a people from slavery to sin and death.

Answer 11

We have been redeemed by Christ

Question 12

Made in God’s image, the human person is;
the crown of God’s creation,
the only being called by God to share in His infinite knowing and loving,
to be in a relationship with Him and
to care for all creation.

Answer 12

We are created in the image and likeness of God

Question 13

We believe that all are called to be adopted children of God and to share in His gift of eternal life.

Answer 13

We are destined to share in God’s Eternal life

Question 14

As the image of God, every individual possesses the dignity of a person

Answer 14

We are created in the image and likeness of God

Question 15

We see and know the presence and action of the Holy Spirit in our lives through His fruits of love joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal 5:22-23).

Answer 15

We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit

Question 16

The Holy Spirit is the product of the loving relationship of the Father and the Son. Thus, pushing us to love as the Father and the Son did.

Answer 16

We are empowered to love by the Holy Spirit