Theology

Question 1

What does the Church teach and believe about our body and its desire?

Answer 1

-it’s our desires creating from God. Our desires are to forgive, love, and be in Union

Question 2

Define and explain love

Answer 2

Involves a sincere gift of oneself to others

Question 3

Define and explain list

Answer 3

Selfish act that seeks ones own pleasure at the extent of another

Question 4

What is original innocence?

Answer 4

The state of Adam and Eve prior to their knowledge of sin-when their minds, hearts, and bodies were innocent

Question 5

What is original nakedness?

Answer 5

The first experience of adam and eve when they were naked without shame

Question 6

What is the nuptial meaning of the body?

Answer 6

Our bodies literally fit together and are made for each other

Question 7

What is shame? How is shame a result of Original Sin?

Answer 7

• a need to protect ourselves from being used (defense mechanism)
• because we wouldn’t have had to worry about it before

Question 8

What is concupiscence?

Answer 8

Our tendency to sin in things that are actually harmful

Question 9

What is the problem with basing our decisions on feelings instead of truth?

Answer 9

Feelings change and the truth remains the same

Question 10

Explain the difference between chastity and abstinence

Answer 10

Abstinence is simply refraining from sex

Chastity is virtue that directs our sexual desires and attitudes towards the truth of love

Question 11

How does chastity free us to love?

Answer 11

It frees us from using each other as objects, and thus makes us capably of authentic love

Question 12

How is sexual desire a good thing?

Answer 12

• created by God

- our ultimate desire to love and give

Question 13

What does “resurrection of the body” mean?

Answer 13

When our body and soul will be raised to Jesus and reunited

Question 14

Will there be sex in heaven

Answer 14

No because all of our needs will already be fulfilled

Question 15

Why are teens having sex incapable of freely expressing the full meaning of sex?

Answer 15

Because they are not totally giving themselves to one another because they aren’t married.

Question 16

What is the difference between “ethos of image” and “ethos of seeing”?

Answer 16

• responsibility of the artist to display the person right

- responsibility of the viewer to see the person right

Question 17

What is the problem with pornography?

Answer 17

Unrealistic, causes lust

Question 18

What can one do to overcome addiction to pornography?

Answer 18

• block it online
• tell someone about it
• unsubscribe to it

Question 19

Explain what free, total, fruitful, and faithful each mean in terms of sex. What is the only situation all 4 can apply?

Answer 19

*marriage
-free: controlled by another
faithful: love that’s committed no matter what
Fruitful: willing to have children
Total: love that is open to procreation

Question 20

What does the Church teach about homosexuality? How are people with same sex attraction called to live?

Answer 20

• Marriage is supposed to be for a man and woman

- the are called to a life of celibacy and purity and aiming to love God above all else

Question 21

Why shouldn’t we live with someone before we are married?

Answer 21

It’s not total commitment, there’s no way out, there’s no sacrifice, temptation

Question 22

Why do we need marriage? What’s it for?

Answer 22

To help the couple, each other, and our children get to heaven

Question 23

How is marriage a sacrament?

Answer 23

The love between a man and woman is a sign of Gods love and it gives us a taste of what heaven is like

Question 24

Why do couples have to go through marriage prep?

Answer 24

Forces couples to discuss what normally wouldn’t be brough up

Question 25

What’s the point of getting married in the Catholic Church? What value is there in the sacrament of Matrimony?

Answer 25

• bond between the couple will be stronger bc it has the Church supporting it
• married couples receive gifts and graces from God as husband and wife

Question 26

Why do you have to get married in a church building?

Answer 26

-marriage is with and for the church

Question 27

Do you have to have children?

Answer 27

Yes unless you have a good reason not to and can be fruitful in other ways

Question 28

What is celibacy?

Answer 28

To not get married in order to serve God and the Church more fully

Question 29

How does celibacy point is to our ultimate purpose?

Answer 29

• it’s a call t selfless love

- they’ve “skipped” marriage in anticipation of our ultimate union with God

Question 30

How are marriages and celibacy “complementary signs”?

Answer 30

• marriage reminds the celibate of what their commitment to the church and God looks like
• remind married people that their marriage is a glimpse of what’s to come in heaven with God

Question 31

Why are priests not married?

Answer 31

• Jesus wasn’t married

- “Father to none so they can be father to all”

Question 32

Vocation

Answer 32

State of life God has called it to; how we are called to love and serve God

Question 33

Theology of the Body

Answer 33

Study of God and our ultimate purpose revealed through our bodies

Question 34

Personalistic Norm

Answer 34

Principle that recognizes that the only proper call to humans is to love

Question 35

Nuptial

Answer 35

“Marriage-like” “martial” “spousal”

Question 36

Contraception

Answer 36

Every action before during and after sex that tries to stop its purpose AKA procreation

Question 37

Pronography

Answer 37

Pictures created to arouse list

Question 38

Objectify

Answer 38

View/treat someone as a thing rather than a person

Question 39

Fornication

Answer 39

Sex outside of marriage

Question 40

One-flesh Union

Answer 40

The loving embrace of a marriage couple through sex in which they become “one flesh”

Question 41

What is our primary human vocation?

Answer 41

To love