Love

Question 1

1Corinthians 13:4-7

Answer 1

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Question 2

The love that comes from Jesus moves us to

Answer 2

The love that comes from Jesus moves us to accept our weakness and even sufferings that we encounter day in and day out.

Question 3

Jesus’ passion and death brought

Answer 3

Jesus’ passion and death brought salvation for us.

Question 4

Jesus’ ultimate act of self-giving and trust……

Answer 4

Jesus’ ultimate act of self-giving and trust has been manifested in His passion and death on the cross out of great love and obedience to the father.
We believe that Christ’s death on the cross spells victory for us.

Question 5

The suffering and death of Christ…..

Answer 5

The suffering and death of Christ help us grasp fully the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love which surpasses all knowledge. (CFC 577)

Question 6

The Apostolic Faith expressed in the New Testament……

Answer 6

The Apostolic Faith expressed in the New Testament sees in Jesus’ passion and death not just some incidental historical event of Jews and Romans, but the saving act of God in Jesus’ free self-sacrifice.

Question 7

Universal

Answer 7

Christ died not only for our own individual sins but for the sins of the whole world.
Christ died for all, and His death stands as a symbol of His universal redeeming love.
The crucified body of Jesus Christ speaks a universal language to all men and women for all time.

Question 8

Empowering

Answer 8

This dimension is “already” present in us in grace, empowering us so that all our actions can have “saving” power. “When anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. . . The way we know that we remain in him and he in us is that he has given us of his Spirit”

Question 9

Eschatological

Answer 9

Jesus did not die simply to raise our standard of living or make life easier. He died that those who follow him will receive “eternal life in the age to come”.

Question 10

It is Jesus’s perfect, self-giving love….

Answer 10

It is Jesus’s perfect, self-giving love for His Father and for us that saved us.
This self-giving love is what we should also manifest.
The Salvation brought by Christ will bear fruits only if we too will love the way HE loved.