Religion

• A community is a group of people with a common interest
• God created us to live with and for other people
• our faith lives ought to be both personal and communal
• faith is belief and trust that comes from hearing
• Ubuntu is community, togetherness, welcoming and recognizing other's humanity, and integrity
• Ubuntu flows from "Love thy neighbor as thyself"
• the Church is not an organization founded by people around a common interest
• God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine life
• Communion is brought about by the convocation of men of Christ, which is the Church
• God's intention is the salvation of men, which we call the Church
• the people of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in hisotry
• People of God: God is not the property of any one people and has more imagery of a family than of a club
• The status of the people of God is that of the dignity and freedom of the sons of God
• the word Church comes from the Greek ekkalein which means "to call out of"
• the Church is founded by God on his initiative
• The Church is the name of the people who freely respond to God and those who are in communion with him
• the word Sacrament comes from the Latin word Sacramentum, which means sign
• the Church is the sacrament of salvation and Sacrament of the unity of the human race
• the Church is a sign and instrument of the full realization of the human race that is yet to come
• The Church is a visible sign of union with God and is an instrument by which God brings us into union
• God created the whole world and planned to raise us to participate in His divine life
• Through Abraham, the whole world is to be called out
• The Church is prepared through the history of Israel
• the Church is born of Christ's love, revealed and perfected by the holy spirit, and is journeying towards its end, the father
• Jesus inaugurated the Church by preaching the Good News
• God is reestablishing his authority over us and helping us live in accord with it
• The Kingdom of God is for everyone and we enter by accepting Jesus' word and conversion
• The Kingdom of god is already present in the person of Jesus, but it is being slowly established in man and the world through a mysterious connection with Christ
• Jesus sums up the whole law by focusing it on the commandment of love
• the Cross is the ultimate sign of Christ's power
• the Kingdom of God is present in and through the Church
• Jesus called, taught, and formed a group of Apostles
• The Apostles are the foundation stones of the Church
• The Apostles are the 1st leaders of the Church
• Peter is the leader of the Apostles
• The Apostles share in Christ's mission and are granted with power and authority to act in Jesus' place
• the Church is born of Christ's total self-giving for our salvation and is symbolized by blood and water that poured from his side
• the Church is the visible plan of God's love for humanity
• Christ established and sustains here on earth and his holy Church as a visible organization through which he communicates truth and grace to all people
• the Church is both a visible reality and a spiritual reality