The Trinity

Question 1

What is the Trinity?

Answer 1

Taught to be only one God to reveal to be three persons through history

Question 2

SOWA for Trinity being only one God but three persons

Answer 2

‘one God in three persons’ CCC 253

Question 3

When and what is the Nicene Creed?

Answer 3

The Christian declaration of faith. Drawn up in 381ce (Constantinople)

Question 4

What is important part of the Nicene Creed?

Answer 4

Belief in the Trinity

Question 5

When is the Nicene Creed repeated?

Answer 5

Repeated every Sunday Mass and every major feast day

Question 6

How is the Nicene creed both an individual and shared statement?

Answer 6

Indv statement of what a Catholic believes
Shared statement that unites Catholics as one body/church

Question 7

How is the trinity seen in the Nicene Creed?

Answer 7

‘I believe in one God, the Father almighty…’
‘I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, Only begotten son of God…’
‘I believe in the holy spirit, the Lord , the life giver… ‘

Question 8

What does doxology mean?

Answer 8

Expression of praise of God

Question 9

What do Catholics believe about the Bible and the Trinity?

Answer 9

The Bible teaches the nature of God as a Trinity

Question 10

What does the Bible teach?

Answer 10

• God is one
• God is the father
• God is the son
• God is the Holy spirit

Question 11

Where in the Bible does it show God is one?

Answer 11

‘the Lord our God is one Lord’ [Deuteronomy 6:4]

Question 12

Where in the Bible does it show God is the Father?

Answer 12

‘Pray then like this: ‘‘Our Father who art in heaven’’ ‘ [Matthew 6:9]

Question 13

Where in the Bible does it show God is the Son?

Answer 13

‘the word was God… The word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:1, 14)

Question 14

Where in the Bible does it show God is the Holy Spirit?

Answer 14

‘when Jesus was baptized […] he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove’ [Matthew 3:16]

Question 15

What type of revelation is God?

Answer 15

A gradual revelation of himself

Question 16

Where are the Trinity?

Answer 16

• ‘outside’ them (Father/Creator)
• ‘beside’ them (Son/Saviour)
• ‘inside’ them (strengthening as Holy Spirit)

Question 17

Why is the explanation of the Trinity as God significant?

Answer 17

• it reveals some of the mystery of God
• provides a way for Catholics to understand how he connects to them in different ways

Question 18

What does the Trinity teach about love?

Answer 18

• relationships of love within the trinity teach Catholics about love in their own lives
• human beings made in his image means they also able to receive and give love

Question 19

What is baptism?

Answer 19

An entry rite into the Catholic Church

Question 20

What is baptism performed in and instructed by who?

Answer 20

In most churches and denominations it is performed ‘In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’

Question 21

Who instructed for baptism to be done in the Trinity?

Answer 21

Jesus in Matthew 28:19

Question 22

What is a sacrament?

Answer 22

An outward sign of inward grace/a religious ceremony/a visible sign of God’s grace

Question 23

What is the most important act of worship for Catholics?

Answer 23

It is the Mass (Eucharist)

Question 24

What is the Eucharist?

Answer 24

People receive the sacrament of the Eucharist: Jesus’ blood and body

Question 25

What does the Eucharist start with?

Answer 25

It begins with the sign of the cross and ‘In the name of the father and of the son..’

Question 26

What is the Eucharistic prayer?

Answer 26

It is an act of thanksgiving and praise to the Father in which the Son is present by the concentrated bread and wine from the coming down of the Holy Spirit

Question 27

What happens at the end of the Eucharistic prayer?

Answer 27

The doxology, glory is given to the Father, through the Son, with the Son and in the Son, in the unity of the Holy Spirit