Module 1 Flashcards
Is a worldwide (universal)community
Catholic church
is a plan born in the father’s heart
church
created the whole universe and chose to-
raise up men to share in his own divine life
to call out
ekklein
means to a convocation or an assembly
church/eccelesia
is used frequently in the greek old testaments for the assembly of the chosen people before god,
Ekklesia
“what belongs to the lord”
keriake
kirche
Gods promise to abraham
that he will be the father of a great nation
lineage of the 12 twelve tribes of israel
abraham to isaac to jacob then to his twelve sons
were called the 12 tribes of israel
Jacobs’s 12 sons
what are the 12 tribes
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulon
joseph
benjamin
jesus proclaimed that
“the kingdom of god is close at his hands”
simon changed his name to-
Peter
for this apostle is to be a rock upon which jesus will built his church
Peter
the origin and growth of the church are symbolized by the-
blood and water which flowed from the open side of the crucified Christ
saint luke, tells us the history of the ____ of the church
public manifestation
what were the apostles, mother mary and other women waiting in a house for?
the paraclete-the helper-whom jesus promised
pentecost means
fiftieth
this is the day when jewish people celebrate the memorial of the covenant god made with them on Mt. Sinai
pentecost
There are characteristic of the people of God:
- It is the people of God: God is not the property of anyone people.
- One becomes a member of this people not by a physical birth but by being “born anew”,
- This people has for its Head Jesus the Christ (the anointed, the Messiah).
- The status of this people is that of the dignity and freedom of the sons of God,
- Its law is the commandment to love as Christ loved us.
- Its mission is to be salt of the earth and light of the world.
- Its destiny finally, is the kingdom of God which has been begun by God’s himself on earth and
which must be further extended until it has been brought to perfection by him at the end of time.