Katechism

• God's instructions to Abram

  1. Leave his country

  2. Make a great nation

  3. God will give him many descendants

  4. God will give him the land of Canaan
• God's purpose

  To unite all the nations on earth into one family and be their God
• Abraham

  • Responded to God's call with faith and obedience
  • Left his area
  • God blessed him with a son called Isaac
• Isaac's son Jacob was the father of 12 tribes
• All the descendants of Jacob were called Israel
• The authorities of Egypt

  Were jealous of the Israelites and started to persecute them
• The Israelites

  Were treated like slaves
• God's actions

  1. Called Moses to liberate the Israelites from slavery

  2. Made the Israelites God's own people once again

  3. Liberated them from Egypt

  4. Led them through the deserts

  5. Made a covenant with them
• Kahal or Ecclesia

  People called into a flock by God and who were made God's own people
• Israel


  Failed to keep the covenant
• God's actions

  Decided to make a new covenant
• Jesus

  • Established a new covenant of love
  • Gave the transformed bread and wine as his own body and blood at the last supper
• The church

  An assembly of the chosen people of God, gathered by himself
• God

  Sent Aaron and Moses to liberate the people of Israel
• Pharaoh didn't allow the Israelites to go

  God decided to slay all the first born Egyptians
• Passover lamb

  Blood put on doors as a sign of salvation
• There wasn't a single baby alive so the Pharaoh let the Israelites go
• Salvation for Israel

  Liberation from the slavery of sin, experience of living in freedom and love with God
• Passover lamb

  Symbol of Jesus, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
• St. Paul highlights the universality of sin to show that the whole mankind was in need of salvation
• Commandments given to Israelites

  So they can become God's own people and ensure salvation
• The terms of this covenant will be written on their hearts
• Jesus


  The savior that God promised, through whose suffering humanity was saved from slavery of sin
• Salvation is due by God's mercy
• Sacrament

  Leads us to the experience of salvation
• We are bound to live the Word of God and keep his covenant
• Faith

  Man's response to the call of God, who reveals himself
• Examples of faith


  • Abraham believed the Promise of God, even though his wife couldn't bear children
  • Mary believed the message of the angel
• Faith is founded on the belief that the Word of God will be done, even if it's impossible for humans
• Jesus


  The Son of God and the revelation of God himself
• Mary and the disciples were gathered

  Day of Pentecost
• Events on the Day of Pentecost

  1. Tongues of fire appeared

  2. Disciples filled with the Holy Spirit

  3. Disciples started speaking different tongues

  4. Some people locked them

  5. Peter gave a speech

  6. Some started believing in Jesus and received Baptism
• The Spirit


  • Leads the apostles, talks and helps them
  • Lives in them and makes them cheerful
• The non-Jews were accepted into the Church for the first time after Peter had a vision
• The Church


  • The edifice built on Jesus Christ led by the Holy Spirit
  • The Spirit builds it up by giving it various fruits and gifts
• Fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit

  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Peace
  • Patience
  • Kindness
  • Goodness
  • Fidelity
  • Meekness
  • Self control
  • Endurance
  • Chastity
  • Moderation
• The Holy Spirit empowers the Church
• Stephen was arrested by authorities for professing his faith
• The Second Vatican Council teaches us that the Holy Spirit lives in the Church
• This teaching is based on the words of St.Paul