Kingdom Of God

Question 1

What pilgrimage means to Catholics - Gaudium et Spes 57

Answer 1

“Christians, on pilgrimage toward the heavenly city, should seek and think of these things which are above”

Question 2

Mary praising God’s greatness in the Magnificat

Answer 2

‘My soul magnifies the Lord … for the Mighty One has done great things for me’

Question 3

Why is the Magnificat controversial?

Answer 3

Sense of revolution in the prayer - “Mercy is for those who fear him” and “He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts”

Question 4

Church being seen as one

Answer 4

At the Last Supper, Jesus prayed to God about his followers that ‘they may all be one ‘ (John 17: 21)

Question 5

Church being holy

Answer 5

The church is a community of sinners and in Luke 5:32 Jesus said ‘I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance’ - howevery Christinas are made holy theough baptism and are guided by the Holy Spirit making the church holy

Question 6

How the Kingdom Value Justice helps people

Answer 6

‘… Goods created by God for everyone should in fact reach everyone’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2459)

Question 7

How the Kingdom Value Peace helps people

Answer 7

‘… founded on truth, built up on justice, nurtured and animated by charity’ (Pacem in Terris 167)

Question 8

Gaudium Et Spes 21

Answer 8

‘The Church sincerely professes that all men . . . ought to work for the rightful betterment of this world in which all alike live’

Question 9

Evangelii Gaudium 53

Answer 9

Today we …have to say’thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality