Year 10 Religion Revision Semester 1

• Vocation


  The life calling of every person, created in everyone by God
• Vocatio


  Latin word meaning 'a call' or 'summons'
• God's creativity


  • Sustains the existence of the universe, developing and perfecting it
  • People participate in this activity by sustaining and developing the earth, its resources and its life
• God's creative activity in human society


  • Human beings are created in the image and likeness of God their Creator
  • Humans society reflects the attributes of God through love, goodness, care for those in need, justice and mercy
• God's creative activity in families


  • Same as God's creative activity in creation and human society
• God's creative activity in individuals


  • When people care for their lives and their health and try to live as good people, they are participating in God's creative activity
• God's creative activity


  • Included in rest and recreation
• Self-centredness


  Seeing no value in serving others and cannot see the point of doing something when there is nothing in return for them
• Low self-esteem


  Cannot appreciate their personal gifts and cannot see possibilities for the future
• Reasons people fail to recognise their vocation

  • Self-centredness
  • Low self-esteem
  • Failure to value society, creation and family
  • Focus on status and income
• Spiritual discernment


  • The process by which a person in faith and love tries to discover God's will in a situation
  • A process of continually choosing the values of Jesus and living by his Spirit
• Salvation


  God's saving action on behalf of the human race
• How salvation is experienced in daily life


  • Gradually empowers people to overcome all human weaknesses and failings
  • Guides people towards true answers to basic human questions
  • Heals deep personal hurts
  • Strengthens the marriages of those who pray, worship and live as Jesus taught
  • Consoles the seriously ill and the dying
  • Forgives sins
  • Places inner conflict with peace
• Personal vocation


  Helps people fulfill themselves and achieve meaning in life
• Christians' vocation to share in the mission of Jesus as priest


  • Put others first
  • Offer every moment of their lives in spiritual sacrifice to God the Father just as Jesus did
  • Join Jesus in offering their lives in the Eucharist
  • Offer their lives as spiritual sacrifice by showing love, caring for anyone, being just and fair and fulfilling responsibilities
  • Offer prayer as a spiritual sacrifice
  • Catholic offer their lives in the Eucharist
• Christians' vocation to share in the mission of Jesus as prophet


  • Speak on behalf of the poor and powerless
  • Help others understand what the Kingdom of God is all about
  • Repent and resolve to change all wrongdoing in their lives and believe in all that Jesus taught
  • Share the good news of the Gospel and encourage others to live as Jesus taught
• Christians' vocation to share in the mission of Jesus as king


  • Exercise stewardship over all creation like Jesus did
  • Promote God's love and goodness in society and promote respect for creation
• The Christian promise is brought closer to fulfilment when people cooperate with God who calls them to their vocations
• Christian vocation


  • Helps people discover what God has planned for them
  • Enables people to do the work they feel they were meant to do
• Marriage


  • Jesus restored God's original plan for marriage
  • The Sacrament of Marriage strengthens and guides people in their life together
  • Baptised people confer the Sacrament of Marriage upon one another
• Purposes of marriage


  • The sexual expression of married love to one another
  • The procreation of children
• Married couples developing a personal relationship with Jesus


  • Praying daily
  • Worshipping together
  • Receiving Jesus personally in Holy Communion
  • Getting to know Jesus and striving to live as he taught, especially the commandments
• Ways married couples nurture their marriage

  • Facing the daily problems that arise in marriage
  • Reopen communication when there is tension
  • Renewing their marriage commitment
  • Forgive each other
  • Support each other
  • Overcome temptations to be unfaithful
  • Developing married love
  • A relationship of mutual service
  • A relationship of shared responsibility
• Apostolic succession


  The spiritual gifts and responsibilities bishops receive, through which Jesus personally leads the Church which has been passed down the generations over the past two thousand years
• Role of St Peter


  • To serve as the rock upon which his Church was founded
  • Received the spiritual gifts needed to teach, sanctify and govern the world-wide Church
• Successor to St Peter

  The Pope
• Priestly vocation


  • A call to serve
  • They serve as parish priests, assistant parish priests, chaplains and priest assisting people in special areas and works of the Church, such as migrant care, health care and educational endeavours
  • They make available spiritual gifts to the communities they serve
  • They strengthen and support community members
  • They serve others by teaching the Gospel, sanctifying to become holier and guiding the community
  • A call to celibate love
• Religious life


  • People called to religious life seek to imitate Jesus by taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
  • Chasity: imitating Christ who loved God the Father and people in a celibate way that is totally available to everyone
  • Poverty: owning nothing personally in imitation of the poverty of Christ. Surrendering all goods and earning to the Church and depending on the Church for the support
  • Obedience: imitating Christ who gave his entire life to obeying God the Father, by placing one's talent, and even one's choice of how best to use those talents, at the complete disposal of the Church
• Religious sisters, brothers, and priests work in many different apostolates
• The basic purpose of every person’s life

  • The basic purpose of every person's life is to experience a loving relationship with God
  • The basic human vocation is to relate personally with God and become the person God calls each to be
  • There can be no greater human happiness than oneness with the Creator
• What happens after people die

  • Particular judgement after death – Jesus sees whether or not the person has accepted God's invitation to eternal relationship
  • Repentance before death – sometimes people repent of their wrong doing immediately before they die
  • The final purification
  • Heaven – the happiness experienced by all who accept God's call to personal relationship with the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit
  • Hell – a state of separation from God due to wrongful actions
  • The Last Judgment – when the world ends, Jesus will return in glory
• Questions need to make responsible moral choices

  • Have I had sufficient relevant knowledge?
  • Have I had sufficient personal freedom?
• Responsible choices are moral choices
• Factors affecting responsible moral choices

  • Internal pressures: strong emotions, personal habits and strong temptations
  • External pressures: social trends, advertising, peer pressure and expectations of others
  • Inadequate moral education
  • Personal pressures: attitudes and habits
  • Social pressures: vulnerability to conform to the expectations of others rather than to make their own independent choices like the media, famous people and negative peer pressure
  • The basic human desire: accepting the challenges involved in making responsible choices
• It is important to make responsible moral choices so that you can gain long term happiness
• Internal pressures


  • Strong emotions
  • Personal habits
  • Strong temptations
• External pressures


  • Social trends
  • Advertising
  • Peer pressure
  • Expectations of others
• Inadequate moral education


  People need to understand moral principles, and learn to apply these principles to everyday situations. Many lack the adequate moral education needed to decide what is good and right.
• Pressures


  • Internal pressures
  • External pressures
• Personal pressures


  • Attitudes
  • Habits