Reed Flashcards
The First Commandment embraces
faith, hope, and chastity
Our Moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us
Faith
The__as our first obligation
“obedience of faith”
Our faith in God is the first expression of love
Faith
about the faith disregards or defuses to hold as true what God has revealed and the Church proposes for belief
Voluntary doubt
refers to hesitation in believing difficulty in overcoming objections connected with the faith or also anxiety around by its obscurity
Involuntary doubt
is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it
Incredulity
is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same
Heresy
is the total repudiation of the Christian faith
Apostasy
is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him”
Schism
He must hope that God will give him the capacity to love Him in return and to act in conformity with the commandments of charity
Hope
is the confident expectation of divine blessing and the beatific vision of God
Hope
The___is also concerned with sin against hope namely despair and presumption
First Commandment
is contrary to God’s goodness to his justice
Despair
Faith in God’s love encompasses the call and the obligation to respond with sincere love to divine charity
Charity -
neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity it fails to consider its preventive goodness and denies its power divine goodness
Indifference
comes from pride
Hatred of God
It is contrary to love of God whose goodness it denies and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments
Hatred of God
fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love
Ingratitude
is hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love
Lukewarmness
or spiritual sloth goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by “HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE”
Acedia
It is the first act of the virtue of religion
Adoration
“nothingness of the creature” who would not exist but for God
Adoration
The acts of faith, hope, and charity enjoined by the
First Commandment are
accomplished in
Prayer -
is an indispensable condition for being able to obey God’s Commandments
Prayer