Christian Living - Q4 ‘24

• jesus is the:

  prince of peace

  lamb of god

  our peace
• peace - gift of the holy spirit. it comes when we are forgiven from our sins
• the woman exhibited repentance and conversion
• active nonviolence 


  luke 7:36-50
• world day of peace

  january 1
• the world must be educated to love peace, to build it up, and defend it
• mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you
• we do not need guns and bombs to bring peace. we need love and compassion
• peace cannot be attained through violence, it can be attained through understanding
• peace is

  a fruit of justice

  a fruit of love
• family


  basic unit of society

  God's special gift

  first government, school, and church
• God blessed our first family to build their own family in a special bond of the

  sacrament of matrimony
• god created man in his image; in his divine image he created him; male and female he created them
• the image of god

  love
• man and woman

  created for each other

  complementary
• married life

  vocation

  indissoluble
• purpose of christian marriage


  unitive

  procreative
• building a family requires

  patience, perseverance, warm affection, selfless sacrifice, great love
• their bond is a covenant like that of christ and the church
• marriage is

  loving, personal, loving self gift
• some are incapable of marriage because they were born so; some, because they have renounced marriage - for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. whoever can accept this auto accept it
• vocation

  calling of god
• three states of life

  priestly/religious life

  married life

  single-blessedness
• priesthood


  received the sacrament of holy orders
• religious priest


  religious order or congregation such as franciscans or jesuits
• poverty


  change inner being
• chastity 


  transform in their interior life
• obedience


  transform in a radical way
• diocesan priest


  serves within a certain area under the authority of a bishop
• simple life


  change their inner being everything that finds its source in the lust of eyes
• the religious

  diaconate: deacon

  presbyterate: priest

  episcopate: bishop