Lesson 2 Flashcards
A personal act
Faith
The free response of the human person to the initiative of God who reveals himself
Faith
True or False: I cannot believe without being carried by the faith of others, and by my faith I help support others in the faith.
True
True or False: Faith is an isolated act
False
Our _________ impels us to speak to others about our faith
Love for Jesus and for our neighbor
the faith of the church professed personally by each believer, principally during baptism
“I believe” (Apostles’ Creed)
The faith of the Church confessed by the bishops assembled in council or more generally by the liturgical assembly of believers
“We Believe” (Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed)
True or False: “I believe” is also the Church, our mother, responding to God by faith as she teaches us to say both “I believe” and “We believe.”
True
An ecclesial act
Believing
The mother of all believers
The Church
True or False: we believe all “that which is contained in the word of God, written or handed down, and which the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed”
true
True or False: Faith is necessary for salvation
True
True or False: St Augustine said that “Faith is a foretaste of the knowledge that will make us blessed in the life to come”
False, it was St Thomas Aquinas who said it
What is the two-fold reference of “to believe”
To the person and to the truth
True or False: Whoever says “I believe,” says “I pledge myself to what we believe.”
true
Such syntheses (Summarization of what the Church believed) are called ________, since they summarize the faith that Christians possess
Profession of Faith
The Summarization of faith that Christians profess are also called as _____ on account of what is usually their first word in Latin: ______(“I believe”)
Creed, Credo
Another term used for the “profession of faith” and “creed”
symbols of Faith
The Greek word “________” meant half of a broken object
Symbolon
Symbolon also means a _________
Gathering, collection, or summary
A summary of the principal truths of the faith and therefore serves as the first and fundamental point of reference for catechesis
symbol of faith
The First profession of faith is made during ________
Baptism
The symbol of faith is first and foremost the ________
baptismal creed
The Creed is divided into three parts which are: (This is also known as the three chapters of our baptismal seal)
The first part; Speaks of the first divine person and the wonderful work of creation
Second part: Second divine person and the mystery of his redemption
Final part: speaks of the third divine person, the origin and source of sanctification
According to the comparison often used by the Fathers, we call the parts of Creed as _______
Articles
The name _______ has justly and rightly been given to the truths we must believe particularly and distinctly
article