King Herod the Great 

Emperor Caesar Augustus

Procurator Pontius Pilate 

Emperor Tiberius

In essence, a Person, the Person of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Son from the Father

who suffered and died for us and who now, after rising, is living with us forever

Jesus Christ: only he can lead us to the love of the Father in the Spirit and make us share in the life of the Holy Trinity."¹⁵

What does Jesus’ name mean in Hebrew?

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What does the Greek term Christ and the Hebrew term messiah related?  What do the two terms mean?  How did Jesus fulfill this role in his various ministries?

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The word "Christ" comes from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed.

Christ It became the name proper to Jesus only because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission that "Christ" signifies
 Just the Messiah  can be anointed by the Spirit of the Lord at once as king and priest, and also as prophet

Jesus fulfilled the messianic hope of Israel in his threefold office of priest, prophet, and king.

Was Jesus created, or did he always exist with the Father?

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In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the ineffable Hebrew name YHWH, by which God revealed himself to Moses,⁵⁹ is rendered as Kyrios,

"Lord.

Does the incarnation mean that Jesus is part man and part God?

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What did the heresy of Gnostic Docetism deny with regard to Jesus’ nature?

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The first heresies denied not so much Christ's divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism). 

The heresies explain that Jesus was only divine not human. 

What did the Council of Chalcedon affirm about Jesus?

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As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time

(No) The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts

Did the sixth ecumenical council of Constantinople III (681) declare that Jesus had two wills or just one?

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What is meant by the term Immaculate Conception?  Which Pope promulgated this doctrine and in which year was it defined?

(paragraph 491)

The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin

 the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:

What are some of the implications that we can draw about Mary from the virginal birth?

(paragraphs 495 and 506)

Jesus entrusted this authority to the Church through the ministry of the apostles and in particular through the ministry of Peter, the only one to whom he specifically entrusted the keys of the kingdom

1.To direct the People of God and the Church. 

2.The right to forgive sins, power to do the Doctrinal judgemnet 

3.and To make decision to guide the church. 

 [N]either all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during his Passion. [T]he Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture 

In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten that "sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured.

How is Jesus passion and death related to God’s providential plan for creation?

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Jesus handed over according to the definite plan of God

He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures

he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"⁴⁰⁶ Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all," so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son."⁴⁰⁷

1.God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love

2.Christ's death is the unique and definitive sacrifice

What do we mean when we say that Christ descended into Hell? Does it have any significance for those who came before him as well as after him?  

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1.He descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.

2.Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.

1. Scriptures he inspired
2.Tradition, to which the Church Fathers are always timely witnesses
3.the Church's Magisterium, which he assists
4.the sacramental liturgy

5.In prayer, wherein he intercedes for us
6.in the charisms and ministries by which the Church is built up
7.in the signs of apostolic and missionary life
8.in the witness of saints through whom he manifests his holiness and continues the work of salvation

Theophanies (manifestations of God) 

Exodus 20:2-17 Giving of the Ten Commandment 

Mary is acclaimed and represented in the liturgy as the "Seat of Wisdom.

Example:  dwelling place where his Son and his Spirit could dwell among men

What are the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit?

(paragraph 736)

• love                * Goodness 
•  joy                 *Faithfulness
• peace                *Gentleness 
• patience              *Self-control
• kindness

The word "Church" (Latin ecclesia, from the Greek ek-kalein, to "call out of") means a convocation or an assembly

Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people

The equivalent Greek term Kyriak, from which the English word Church and the German Kirche are derived, means "what belongs to the Lord."

The Greek word mysterion was translated into Latin by two terms: mysterium and sacramentum. In later usage the term sacramentum emphasizes the visible sign of the hidden reality of salvation which was indicated by the term mysterium

*It is in this analogical sense, that the Church is called a "sacrament

Please describe how the People of God share in Jesus’ roles as Priest, Prophet and King.

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Jesus Christ is the one whom the Father anointed with the Holy Spirit and established as priest, prophet, and king.

On entering the People of God through faith and Baptism

"The holy People of God shares also in Christ's prophetic office

the People of God shares in the royal office of Christ.

•  by God's Word
• by Baptism
• by the sacraments
• by "the grace of the apostles
• by the virtues
• by the many special graces (called "charisms")

Please explain how the Church is one, holy, Catholic and apostolic.

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*The Church is one because her source ,her founder, her "soul"

*The Church Is Holy: United with Christ, the Church is sanctified by him; through him and with him she becomes sanctifying

*The Church is Catholic: The word "catholic" means "universal," 1.First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her 2.the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race

Apostolic: because she is founded on the apostles

Likewise, it belongs to the sacramental nature of ecclesial ministry that it have a collegial character

For this reason every bishop exercises his ministry from within the episcopal college, in communion with the bishop of Rome, the successor of St. Peter and head of the college. So also priests exercise their ministry from within the presbyterium of the diocese, under the direction of their bishop.

*Magisterium is the Teaching of authority of the Church.

*It is make up by the College of Bishop ( Episcopal)

 *Bishops are communion with The Pope

*The Responsibilities to Magisterium is a teaching that leads to better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals.

To whom does the term laity refer in the Church?  What is the mission and charism of the laity?

(paragraphs 897, 898, 901)

*Greek Laos mean People

*Laity are the people who have been part of the church through the Baptism with the exception for the Holy Orders or religious Communities by the approved of the church

*The Mission and Charism: the laity consecrate the world itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives.

Also by doing temporal affairs and works for the church.

What are the Evangelical Counsels?  How are they related to Consecrated Life?

(paragraph 915)

*What is "rising"? In death, the separation of the soulfrom the body, the human body decays and the soulgoes to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body.

*How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body

*When? Definitively "at the last day," "at the end of the world. Indeed, the resurrection of the dead is closely associated with Christ's Parousia

Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven—through a purification orimmediately,or immediate and everlasting damnation.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

1. What is the ultimate end of the deepest human longings? (1024)

 Heaven: Scripture speaks of it in images: life, light, peace, wedding feast, wine of the kingdom, the Father's house, the heavenly Jerusalem, paradise

Beatific Vision:Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man's immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it

Doctrine of Purgatory: Councils of Florence and Trent

Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned

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The Church prays that no one should be lost: "Lord, let me never be parted from you." If it is true that no one can save himself, it is also true that God "desires all men to be saved" (1 Tim 2:4), and that for him "all things are possible" (Mt 19:26).

Relious Life:it is distinguished from other forms of consecrated life by its liturgical character, public profession of the evangelical counsels, fraternal life led in common

Secular Institutes: is an institute of consecrated life in which the Christian faithful living in the world strive for the perfection of charity and work for the sanctification of the world especially from within

Societis of Apostolic:societies of apostolic life whose members without religious vows pursue the particular apostolic purpose of their society, and lead a life as brothers or sisters in common according to a particular manner of life, strive for the perfection of charity through the observance of the constitutions