Catechism Corner

The man on the island who never heard the Gospel Message.... How could a good and loving God condemn to hell someone who’s never heard of him?

Lesson 1 Part 1

This lesson will lead you to be able to accurately answer the following important questions and can totally revolutionize your appreciation for the Bible. How did God go about revealing His thoughts and truths to man? What evidence do we have that the Bible is God's words to us? Why do we call the Bible by that name?

Because the Father is one He is the source of the entire Trinity He is unbegotten. There is no source of the Father's existence other than Himself. As some of the early Christians put it He is divine. He is unbegotten and His origin is in Himself....

Actual sin is the sin we commit ourselves. In the Baltimore Catechism it says that actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission forbidden by the law of God.

Every fruit of the redemption won by Christ, every grace from on high comes through our lady. In fact, all of us are co redeemers in some way, when we bring our children to be baptized, or we help a soul convert to the true faith, or when we give instruction to a soul in error. We can call down and apply the fruits of the redemption through our prayers and sacrifices.

Today, we look at Genesis chapter three and the fall of man and the resulting punishment that comes to all of us through that original sin.

The creation accounts are foundational for our Catholic faith, and for us to understand the history of our salvation.

Angels are a host of beings so numerous they can't be counted. We see an awesome picture of this in Daniel's description of God on the throne as Judge: "A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him, thousands upon thousands were attending Him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him" (Daniel 7:10)

Angels are pure spirit, but that doesn't mean they are just floating apparitions. Angels are personal beings, and likewise, the evil angels did not lose their person-hood, when they became demons.

The beautiful thing that we're really going to notice is this; how ordered the creation of God really is. How it all fits together. That there's a hierarchal order both in the spiritual and the material universes