religion

• Early Christian Practices:

  1. Didache
  2. Community life and sharing of common goods
  3. breaking of the bread
  4. prayer
• Activities in church today:

  1. prayer meeting
  2. household meeting
  3. life in the spirit seminar
  4. perpetual adoration
  5. Christian life program
• Didache - teaching of the apostles
• Didache - the first Christian community's life pattern showed a strong heritage from Israel
• Community life and sharing of common goods - one of the most important practices of the community (koikonia) was the voluntary sharing of material things or common goods among the members of the community
• The acts of the apostles depicted early Christians, such as Peter, John and other disciples going regularly to the temple to pray
• Breaking of the bread or the Eucharist as we understand it today, was indeed a ritual
• everytime we celebrate the Eucharist, we commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus, that is a cause for celebration of all members of the Christian
• early Christians believed that Jesus continued to say prayers that they had known before
• the Lord's Prayer that Jesus taught to his followers is similar to the entreaties or synagogue prayers
• prayer meeting - a regular coming together of the members of a charismatic community
• In Prayer meeting, the goodness of God is the center of the celebration of this group of Christians who accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior
• Household meeting - a small gathering of Christians as a specific locality, parish church, or diocese
• Agape - a distinctively Christian form of love
• life in the spirit seminar - a seminar given to individuals who are invited and challenged to accept God's invitation to conversion
• God's love, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and other essential topics are discussed and shared by the members of a particular Christian community
• perpetual adoration - the goal of this is to conduct continual prayers of adoration and praise to our Lord in the church
• perpetual adoration- one of its goal is to let Catholic individuals and families experience a holy hour of prayer
• Christian Life Program - idik basta about couple2
• Anchor - symbolizes hope
• Hope - the confident expectation of the divine blessing and the beatific vision of God
• Dove - represents peace
• Peace - the work of justice and the effect of charity ( Isaiah 32:17)
• Fish - became the symbol of Christ before the fifth century
• Fish is known in greek as an ichtus
• Ichtus was formed from the initial of Lesous, Christos, Theou, Uios, Soter
• Ichtus is translated as Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior
• Phoenix - a mystical bird that lives 500 years then consumes itself in fire, arising renewed from ashes
• Bread - symbolizes the body of Christ
• Phoenix - early Christians used this bird to symbolize the resurrection of Christ from the dead
• Phoenix - early Christians used this bird to symbolize the resurrection of Christ from the dead