Quiz for Nov 17th

Question 1

1. According to Sheed, how do the theological virtues relate to the intellect and will?

Answer 1

Our intellect is given a new access to truth by Faith: now it can accept God as the supreme source of truth, Whose word is final.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 169-170). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 2

2. What are the theological virtues and why does Sheed say they are call theological?

Answer 2

because their object is God, they relate the soul directly and rightly to Him.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 170). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 3

3. What are the moral virtues and where does Sheed say each resides?

Answer 3

which are concerned with our relation to all things less than God. Here too there is an uneven division between intellect and will, the intellect having one of them, prudence; the will having three, justice and temperance and fortitude.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 170). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 4

4. According to Sheed, it might help our thinking if we spoke of sanctifying grace as supernatural _____ and actual grace as supernatural ________________.

Answer 4

as Supernatural Life, the other as Supernatural Impulsion.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 172)

Question 5

5. Which gifts of the Holy Spirit does Sheed contend reside in the intellect?

Answer 5

Understanding, Wisdom, Knowledge, Counsel.

Question 6

6. Which gifts of the Holy Spirit does Sheed contend reside in the will?

Answer 6

Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and Piety

Question 7

7. According to Sheed, how is hope and faith are lost?

Answer 7

Hope is lost, as we have seen, by despair or presumption; Faith by unbelief.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 178). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 8

1. To which sacraments does Sheed say that birth and growth and death respond?

Answer 8

There is birth and growth and death; to these respond Baptism, Confirmation and Extreme Unction; in between comes the union of the sexes for the continuance of the race, to which corresponds Matrimony; and for some the duty of representing God in relation to the community and the community in relation to God, for which Christ provided Holy Orders.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 181). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 9

2. According to Sheed, which sacraments cannot be repeated and why?

Answer 9

Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Orders—cannot be repeated at all, because, as St. Thomas tells us, they represent ways of sharing in the priesthood of Christ.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 181). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 10

3. Why does Sheed say that God allows anyone to baptize?

Answer 10

The minister is acting in the power of Christ; he is giving himself to be used by Christ—giving himself, note. Our Lord is not using him as a tool, for tools are simply used at the carpenter’s will, their consent is not asked.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 182). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 11

4. What is the one sacrament, according to Sheed, which cannot be administered by a priest at all?

Answer 11

There is one sacrament which cannot be administered by a priest at all—it is Matrimony, for the man and woman to be married (provided they are baptized) administer it to each other.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 182). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 12

5. According to Sheed, Holy Orders and normally Confirmation are administered by _____________?

Answer 12

The bishop confers Holy Orders, and normally Confirmation, though he sometimes delegates one of his clergy.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 183). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 13

6. In terms of what must be done and what must be said, what does Sheed say Holy Eucharist requires?

Answer 13

Holy Eucharist requires that the priest say the words “This is my body” over wheaten bread, and the words “This is my blood” over wine of the grape.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 184). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 14

7. What two powers does Sheed say are conferred by the sacrament of Holy Orders that are of supreme importance?

Answer 14

The first is that he can absolve from sin (though this power may be inoperative unless he also has jurisdiction, permission from the bishop of the diocese where he would use it: it is always operative if the penitent is dying).
The second is that he can offer the Sacrifice of the Mass; this power includes naturally the power to consecrate.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 187). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 15

8. “By the sins called “mortal” – death-bringing – we break the union of ______________________ and

Answer 15

we break the union of our will with God’s and lose the supernatural life.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 187). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 16

9. “What has already been referred to as ___________________ involves both repairing damage done to others and willingness to do the penance required

Answer 16

What has already been referred to as satisfaction involves both repairing damage done to others and willingness to do the penance required.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 192). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 17

10. According to Sheed, the great glory of the sacrament of Reconciliation is not in the removal of guilt, but with confession and absolution, _______________________________________.

Answer 17

With confession and absolution, grace is restored to the soul.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 192). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 18

1. “The Blessed Eucharist is ______________________.

Answer 18

THE Blessed Eucharist is the Sacrament.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 193). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 19

2. According to Sheed, the two of St. Paul’s phrases from 1 Corinthians 11 and 10 which he quotes are a reminder of what?

Answer 19

What he did provide is the account we have just been considering of Our Lord’s first promise.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 195). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 20

3. In his discussion on the Eucharist, Sheed gives an explanation of what doctrine as “where either body or blood is, there is Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity”?

Answer 20

Where either body or blood is, there is Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity. That is the doctrine of the Real Presence.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 196-197). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 21

4. In his discussion of transubstantiation Sheed states, “our senses perceive ____________; only the mind knows the _______________.”

Answer 21

Our senses perceive accidents; only the mind knows the substance. This is true of bread, it is true of every created thing.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 198). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 22

5. How does Sheed say the mind knows that the substance of bread and wine of the Eucharist has been changed into Christ’s body and blood?

Answer 22

By the revelation of Christ it knows that the substance has been changed, in the one case into the substance of His body, in the other into the substance of His blood.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 198). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 23

6. “Christ’s body remains in the communicant as long as the _________________________________.”

Answer 23

Christ’s body remains in the communicant as long as the accidents remain themselves.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 199). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 24

7. What does Sheed say the word sacrifice means?

Answer 24

they offered it to God, made it sacred (that is what the word sacrifice means).

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 201). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 25

8. “In itself, _____________ is simply the admission that all things are God’s”

Answer 25

In itself, sacrifice is simply the admission that all things are God’s;

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 201). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 26

9. What three things does Sheed say Christ’s self-sacrifice accomplished principally?

Answer 26

three things principally—atoned for the sin of the race, healed the breach between the race and God, opened heaven to men, opened it never to be closed.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 202). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.

Question 27

10. According to Sheed, “to see ourselves merely as spectators at Mass is to miss the opportunity to take our part in the _____________________________________________.”

Answer 27

To see ourselves merely as spectators at Mass is to miss the opportunity to take our part in the highest action done upon earth.

Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 204). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.