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FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 body of the man is on the side of TOPIC OUTLINE: Lesson 1: I believe in God the evil. Ex: Marriage Lesson 2A: Creation Lesson 2B: The Fall Of Man Lesson...

FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 body of the man is on the side of TOPIC OUTLINE: Lesson 1: I believe in God the evil. Ex: Marriage Lesson 2A: Creation Lesson 2B: The Fall Of Man Lesson 3: Fides Qua (What) & Fides Quae (Which) - Faith is both an act of belief or trust and also that which is believed or LESSON 1: I BELIEVE IN GOD confessed, fides qua and fides quae, respectively. ★ Saint Peter of Verona, Martyr - Fides Qua (subjective): The act of - First canonized martyr of the believing in God and the divinely Dominican Order. revealed truths; the virtue of faith, - Born in 1205 in Verona, Italy, of that makes the act of faith possible; parents who had embraced the faith that strengthened the heresy of Catharism (fake news). martyrs. Example: St. Peter Verona’s - Educated at the University of act of faith that strengthened him Bologna and was accepted into the to die a martyr’s death Dominican Order (they refute - Fides Quae (objective): The faith Catharism) by Dominic himself. which is believed; the article of - Appointed inquisitor (leader who faith, the revealed truth; the debates against catharism) for the Catholic faith defended by the Milan area in 1234, and 1251 his martyrs. Example: The Catholic faith jurisdiction was extended to most preached, defended, and professed of northern Italy by St. Peter Verona by his blood. - Attracted huge crowds with his preaching and made enemies as an I believe - We Believe inquisitor. - Faith is a reality profoundly - Martyred at the age of forty-seven personal and ecclesial. In professing - As he lay dying from the blow of a our faith, we say both “I believe” heretic’s ax, Peter dipped his finger and “we believe”. into his blood and attempted to - Faith is professed within the write on the ground, “Credo in communion of the Holy Spirit Deum.” (I believe in God) which unites all believers with God - His murderer renounced heresy, and among themselves. became a Dominican cooperator brother, and died with a reputation The Creeds of the Church for sanctity. - The church has always summarized the object of faith in her creeds. The Cathary movement ultimate object of faith is not the - People who believe in dichotomy in creed but God. human life. (between good and evil) - The creed defines what we believe - This dichotomy exists in a human about God. person in a sense the soul of man is - Creeds - these are condensed on the side of the good, while the formulas of faith developed over the course of time; with their help FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 we can contemplate, express, learn, crucified was more malala than hand on, celebrate, and live out this being beheaded. reality. Creeds are brief formulas - Constantine the Great declared that make it possible for all that the entirety of Rome shall only believers to have a common be Christians. profession. - Arianism - created by Arius, Christian heresy that declared that Two types of Creed Christ is not truly divine but a a) The Apostles’ Creed created being. Arius mispread - The oldest authoritative doctrinal information which stated that God formulation of the Church’s belief in is a created being. After, the church the Trinity is the Apostles Creed, decided to excommunicate Arius. which, in the form of the ancient - In 381 AD, a new council, Roman baptismal summary of Constantinople, one word was faith, served as the basis of included in the Nicene Creed which catechumenical instruction was “Filoque” (and the son). (education formation to adults that weren’t baptised at a young age) Faith of the Filipino and as a baptismal confession of - Faith in the broadest sense is a faith since the second century. central reality in FIlipino life. It is an - It is based on the Trinitarian everyday “natural” factor in all our formula of Baptism human relationships and daily actions. Faith is multidimensional. b) The Nicene Creed - Our human experience of faith also - The Nicene Creed, which arose out helps rlte us to God. of the defensive struggle against - Saying “I believe in GOd,” therefore, Arianism, specially stresses the true means accepting all the truths he Divinity of the Son and His has revealed, obeying His will, adn consubstantiality with the Father entrusting ourselves to Him - It was amplified during the Council 1. In accepting the word of others, we of Constantinople, which arose out already show our faith in them of the defensive struggle against 2. We readily obey the directions of Arianism and Macedonianism. The those over us, at home. at work, in amplified creed stresses, side by our communities side with the divinity of the Son, 3. We even entrust ourselves and our also the divinity of the Holy Spirit. welfare to others: doctors, teachers, - In 325 AD - Nicea, Peter was judges, civic leaders, not tom crucified upside down for it was a emeation cooks, jeepney drivers crime to have any religion at that - Without such basic human faith, time. On the other hand, Paul was human life would be impossible. ordered to be killed through beheading; he belonged to the Levels of the Faith of the Filipino Roman empire. At that time being a) Paniniwala FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 - Belief in some teaching or doctrine; - The Holy Trinity is the apex of God’s belief in the testimonies of another revelation to mankind. It is the - believing acceptance most fundamental and the most b) Pagtitiwala profound mystery of faith. - Deeper trust in the person - God alone can make it known to us - Personal entrusting by revealing himself as Father, Son c) Pagsunod and Holy Spirit. It is beyond reason, - Obedient action but not contrary to reason. - It is beyond reason but not contrary Faith has a social dimension to reason (man has intelligence, we because it has been handed over can reason out. Faith appeals to by the church to the individual reason) believer who accepts, explores, and deepens faith. Faith is meant to be The Holy Trinity in Sacred Scriptures shared. 1) Let us make man in our image, Faith is not only a “head thing” but after our likeness (Genesis 1:26) a “heart thing” and a “hand thing” - God often speaks in the plural form as well. Our sharing the content of of Himself. The plural form may be faith is truly based on committed explained with more probability as faith (by words and deeds). the plural of majesty (pluralis - If faith is authentic it leads us to majestatis) which is really singular. commit by words and means. - In Jewish literary style, they use adjectives in 3 times. They do not The Holy Trinity as the Object of Our use superlatives. Ex: God is Holy Faith holy holy (instead of the Holiest). To - By his revelation, God out of the refer to God, they use the plural abundance of His love speaks to us form of majesty. as friends and lives among us, so that He may invite and take us into 2) The Holy Spirit will come upon fellowship with Himself (cf. Dei you, and the power of the Most Verbum,2) High will overshadow you; - The adequate response/man’s therefore the child to be born will response to this invitation is faith be called the holy, the Son of God (CCC 142) (Luke 1:35) - Faith is the submission of our whole - In The Annunciation, the three being (intellect and will) to God the Divine Persons are named: God, the revealer (Dei Verbum, 5) Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. - To believe has twofold references: to the person and to the truth: to to 3) When Jesus was baptized...the the truth, by trust in the person heavens were opened and he saw who bears witness to it (CCC 177) the Spirit of God descending like a dove... a voice from heaven, saying, The Mystery Of the Blessed Trinity “This is my beloved Son, with FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 whom I am well pleased” and the fellowship of the Holy (Matthew 3:16-17) Spirit be with all of you. (2 - The speaker is God the Father. Corinthians 13:13) Jesus is the Son of God. The Holy Spirit appears under a special symbol as an independent, Terminologies of the Trinitarian Dogma personal Essence side by side with - The church in her teaching the Father and the Son. concerning the DOgma of the Holy Trinity, uses philosophical concepts 4) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to a) Substance be with you always (John 14:16). - Rendered also at times by - The Holy Spirit who is sent is clearly “essence” or “nature” distinguished as a Person from the - Characterizes the physical essence Father and the Son who send Him. of God common to the Father, Son, The appellation “Advocate” and the and Holy Spirit, that is, the totality activities attributed to Him of the Perfections of the Divine (teaching, giving witness) Essence presuppose His personal - The concept of substance answers subsistence the question “What are you?” - Holy Trinity: I am God 5) Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in b) Person the name of the Father, and of the - Rendered also at times by Son, and of the Holy Spirit “hypostasis (bearer of nature)” (Matthew 28:19). - Carries the nature of the human - The Mystery of the Trinity is most - Boetheius defines “person” as an clearly manifested in the mandate individual substance of a rational of Jesus. The unity of the Three nature Persons is indicated in the singular - The concept of person answers the form “in the name.” question “Who are you?” - Holy Trinity: I am the Father, I am 6) Peter begins his epistle with the the Son, I am the Holy Spirit Trinitarian formula of blessing: To the... chosen and destined by God Excursus: Substance & Person the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ Hypostasis (person) and nature and for sprinkling with his blood (1 (substance) are related to each other in Peter 1:1-2) such a manner that the hypostasis is the bearer of nature and the ultimate 7) Paul ends his second epistle to the subject of all being and acting, while the Corinthians with the Trinitarian nature is that through which the blessing: The grace of the Lord hypostasis is and acts Jesus Christ and the love of God FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 c) Relations In God, there are two internal Divine - Ways in which things an stand with Procession: the begetting of the Son by the regard to one another o to Father and the procession of the Holy themselves Spirit from the Father and the Son. - Used by the church to designate 1. “Jesus said to them.. “ I proceeded the fact that Divine Person’s and came forth fro, God” (Jn 8:42) distinction lies in the relationship of 2. “When the Counselor comes, each to the others whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me. (Jn 15:26) The Trinitarian Dogma 1. The Holy Trinity is one God in Three Divine Persons (De Deo Uno ET Trino) What we can learn from the Holy 2. We distinguish among the persons, Trinity but we do not divide the substance. 3. The Divine Persons are distinct The Holy Trinity is the basis of the from one another in relations of Church’s synodality origin. - Syn (with) + odos (path). It indicates the path along which the People of God walk together Divine Processions - Theme of the forthcoming Synod - By “procession,” we mean the origin on October 2023; communion, of one from another. We participation, and mission. distinguish between external and internal processions. Communion - God gathers us together as diverse people of one faith, External procession - the end of through the covenant that he the procession goes outside the offers. The communion we share principle from which it proceeds. finds its deepest roots in the love Example: Creatures proceed by the and unity of the Trinity. external procession from God their Participation Primary Origin - The Divine Persosns are wholly in Internal Procession - the origin of a one another; all the ad extra Divine Person from another activites of Go are common to the through the communication of the Three Persons. Members of the numerically one Divine Essence. Church are thus called to involve themselves in the community. Participation s based on the fact FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 omnipotence and his wisdom. He that all of us are called to serve one another through the gifts we simply spoke, “Let there be light” have received from God. - Only God is creator LESSON 2A: CREATION AND FALL OF Ex amore MAN - God created the world out of love - God has no other reason for creating than his love and Apostles Creed Nicene Creed goodness. This love is natural to I believe in God the I believe in one God. Father Almighty God the Father Creator of Heaven Almighty, Maker of Heaven Common Preface IV and Earth and Earth, (There is only one of all things visible God, Invisible and invisible creatures are being referred to as the angels) Creation - Is the first act of God’s revelation. Creation is the Work of the Holy Trinity - Although we say that the work of the Creation is the Father’s, he did In Statu Viae this indivisibly together with the - Is Creation a one-time event? Son and the Holy Spirit - The universe was created In Statu Viae - Everything that God created is in the state of journeying, toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained - Through his Divine Providence, God protects and governs all things Ex Nihilo which he has made. - How did God create us? - Creation is a continuous process. - God created the world. God made everything out of nothing. NOTE: God the Creator is not like a - He did not need any previously watchmaker or an architect, who, after existing materials or help from doing his work, leaves it alone. anyone: this shows his God not only gives us existence but sustains us at every moment. FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 Challenging views on God as Creator Atheism - Total rejection of the existence of God. Even Catholics can become atheist in the sense of praise. You believe in God, you profess your beliefs in Him, but you practically think and do something evil right after you got to the mass - This painting explains that it is Materialism man’s freedom that he reaches out - Others reject any transcendent to the Lord. origin for the world, but see it as merely the interplay of matter that Creation has always existed. (ex: - Is the first act of God’s revelation Evolutionism and Big Bang Theory) - Gratuitous - everything is grace Deism Genesis - Some admit that the world was - Gignesthai, meaning “to be born” or made by God, but as by a “origin” watchmaker who, once he has - The first book of the Jewish and made a watch, abandons it to itself. Christian Scriptures. It does not give scientific explanations on the origin Gnosticism of the world. - According to some of these - Uses the literary form of religious conceptions, the world (at least the myth to speak about reality. physical world) is evil, the product of a fall, and is thus to be rejected of The Book of Genesis provides us with left behind two accounts of Creation. Priestly Account (1st account) Dualism/Manichaeism - Genesis 1:1-2:3 - Others have said that the world is a - The style of writing is simple and necessary emanation arising from repetitive. Priests in the temple do God and returning to him. Still repetitive things. others have affirmed the existence - It uses the divine name ‘Elohim’ of two eternal principles, Good and (translated as God) until God’s Evil, Light and Darkness, locked in name is revealed to Moses. permanent conflict. - Portrays God as distant, supreme, and omnipotent. God only speaks, Pantheism and everything is there - Everything is God, that the world is - Gives description how God created God, or that the development of the universe in six days and rested the world is the development of on the seventh day. God. FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 terms - Pleasure / delight (Hebrew) Yahwist Account (2nd account) - A royal garden (Persian) - Genesis 2:4-25 - The style of writing has flowery language Sanctuary Lamp - Refers to the divine with the divine - Placed in the altar - Similar to light being the first by the proper name, Lord. (YHWH, creation of God on the first day, the Tetragrammaton translation as light means presence and God Lord. means presence. - Emphasize God’s relationship to all human beings represented by The Human Person Adam and Eve. - Imago Dei (Genesis 1:26-28) - YHWH - presence; “I am who am’ - Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, 1st 1. God is the origin of according to our likeness; and let Account everything especially them have dominion over the fish that of life of the sea, and over the birds of the 2. Creation is orderly and air, and over the cattle, and over all good 3. Humankind is the the wild animals of the earth, and summit of God’s over every creeping thing that creation. creeps upon the earth.” 4. Humans are stewards - So God created humankind in his over all creation image, in the image of God he 5. Human sexuality and created them; male and female he procreation belong to the divine order of created them. creation - God blessed them, and God said to 6. Rest is godly them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; 2nd 1. We are connected to and have dominion over the fish of Account earth, soil, and land the sea and over the birds of the (Adamah) 2. The human being is air and over every living thing that both body and soul moves upon the earth.” 3. Eden is the original locale of human beings. The Dignity of the Human Person 4. Humans have the - As our God is our origin and destiny, vocation to care and beginning and purpose, we can say cultivate the world. that we are: 5. Man and woman complement each other. a) Created in the image and likeness 6. Human love and of God. marriage are divinely b) Redeemed by the blood of Christ ordered. c) Sanctified by the Holy spirit. Other Eden FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 will as desirable in one respect Body Soul and undesirable in another. Matera Principle of a) Necessary element composition of the vivification. It is - The quest for good. person. It is immortal corruptible b) Free element - The choice of the concrete object in which the good is sought. Three Elements Of Human Soul - It is only the Human Person who possesses the rational capacity that Freedom makes him/her free. CCC 1730 “God created man a rational being, Rational conferring on him the dignity of a - further divided into the scientific person who can initiate and control element, which enables us to his own actions.” contemplate or engage in God willed that man should be 'left theoretical activity, and the in the hand of his own counsel,' so calculative or deliberative element, that he might of his own accord which enables us to engage in seek his Creator and freely attain practical or political activity. his full and blessed perfection by - It is only the Human Person who cleaving to him. Man is rational and possesses the rational capacity that therefore like God; he is created makes him/her free. with free will and is master over his acts Appetitive - responsible for perception, CCC 1731; 1734 imagination, and movement, and The power, rooted in reason and so is present in other animals too, will , to act or not to act, to do this but not in plants. or that, and so to perform - This sort of soul lacks reason but, deliberate actions on one's own unlike the vegetative, can be responsibility. By free will one influenced by it. shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and Vegetative maturity in truth and goodness ; it - responsible for nutrition and attains its perfection when directed growth, and which is also found in toward God, our beatitude. plants and other animals. Makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, The faculty of thought knowledge of the good, and ascesis - The intellect discerns in a given enhance the mastery of the will object both perfection and over its acts. imperfection, both good and evil, and therefore, presents it to the FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 - They are personal, free, and spiritual Conscience beings who do not have a body like CCC 1777 ours. Angels play a major role in the Enjoins the person at the history of God’s dealing with appropriate moment to do good human beings. and to avoid evil (synderesis) - War broke out in heaven; Michael It also judges particular choices, and his angels battled against the approving those that are good and dragon. The dragon and its angels denouncing those that are evil fought back, but they did not It bears witness to the authority of prevail and there was no longer any truth in reference to the supreme place for them in heaven. Good to which the human person is - God did not spare the angels when drawn, and it welcomes the they sinned but condemned them commandments. to the chains, and handed them to When he listens to his conscience, be kept for judgment (2 Peter 2:4) the prudent man can hear God - The angels too, who did not keep to speaking. their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the Practical judgment of reason upon an individual act as good to be performed judgment of the great day. (Jude 6) or evil to be avoided. - The fallen angels were naturally good but became evil by their own doing. The irrevocable character of Two Types of Conscience their choice made their sin unforgivable. CALLOUS SCRUPULOUS The Human Person Falls Out of Love Fails to see a sin, Tends to see sin, when it is actually when there is - Genesis 3: 1-14 there. actually none. - The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out Freedom his hand and take also from the “Conscience is primarily a cognitive tree of life and eat, and live forever faculty, not a set of emotional or dispositional states.” Man’s original State in Paradise (Before (St. John Paul II) the Fall) Original Justice LESSON 2B: THE FALL OF MAN - The inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man Angels and woman, and finally the - A truth of faith harmony between the first couple and all creation, comprised the ἄγγελος state called "original justice." - Messenger FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 Original Holiness Sin is Destructive - Sharing of the human person to the - Man, tempted by the devil, divine life. abused his freedom and disobeyed God’s command. Preternatural Gifts - It ruined man’s harmony with Integrity God and with the rest of creation. - Perfect control of the passions to reason; subjection of the body to Original Sin the soul - The sin by which the first human beings disobeyed the Immorality commandment of God, choosing to - Non-subjection to the painful follow their own will rather than separation of the body and soul in God's will. As a consequence, they death. lost the grace of original holiness, Impassibility and became subject to the law of - Immunity from all suffering and death; sin became universally misery. present in the world. Besides the personal sin of Adam and Eve, Infused Knowledge original sin describes the fallen - Understanding the natural sciences state of human nature which without effort. affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the Man’s First Sin "new Adam," came to redeem us. - Man, tempted by the devil, let his - Although it is proper to each trust in his Creator die in his heart individual, original sin does not and, abusing his freedom, have the character of a personal disobeyed God’s command. fault in any of Adam's descendants. a) Self-Idolatry It is a deprivation of original - In that sin man preferred himself to holiness and justice, but human God and by that very act scorned nature has not been totally him. He chose himself over and corrupted: it is wounded in the against God, against the 'natural powers proper to it; subject requirements of his creaturely to ignorance, suffering, and the status and therefore against his dominion of death; and inclined to own good. sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence. b) Self-Deification - Constituted in a state of holiness, man was destined to be fully Concupiscence And Personal Sin "divinized" by God in glory. Seduced by the devil, he wanted to "be like Concupiscence As a result of original sin, human God," but "without God, before God, nature is and nothing in accordance with weakened in its God. powers; subject to FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 ignorance, suffering, and the LESSON 3: THE MYSTERY OF THE domination of INCARNATION death; and inclined to sin. Annunciation Personal Sin This type of sin - announcement arises from the free - The reason why feast days start and deliberate before the actual day when it is choice of an afternoon because the Jewish way individual to do what is morally evil of counting the day begins on a in the sight of God. sunset This is when a man chooses to Annunciation to Mary voluntarily and - March 25 - when the angel came to willfully disobey Mary the law of God - Fiat - agreement or yes of Mary to revealed to us. the Angel. - Mary is the Kecharitomene, which Two types of Personal Sins is how the angel greeted Mary in Greek. (“Hail, full of grace! The Lord Venial Sin Sin which does not is with you”). Only Mary is full of destroy the divine life in grace. the soul, as does mortal - Which Mary replied, “Behold, I am sin, though it diminishes and wounds it (1855). the handmaid of the Lord” Venial sin is the failure to observe necessary Annunciation to Joseph moderation, in lesser - Mary was pregnant at the age of 16 matters of the moral and was betrothed to Joseph, and law, or in grave matters they don’t live together. acting without full - That is why Joseph wanted to knowledge or complete consent (1862). divorce her because during that time it was a crime to get pregnant Mortal Sin A grave infraction without having a husband. of the law of God that - Joseph obeyed the angel due to destroys the divine life God’s command in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away Incarnation from God. For a sin to be - in + caro “flesh” mortal, three conditions - And the Word was made flesh and must be present: grave dwelt among us matter, full knowledge - Begotten not made, consubstantial of the evil of the act, and with the father and by the Holy full consent of the Will. Spirit, was incarnate of the Virgin (CCC 1855-1857) FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 Mary and became man (Nicene - Has complete human Creed) intellect & will. Human will submits to the divine will. Why did God become man? - Has Beatific, Infused, and For our “salvation” and Experimental Knowledge. “reconciliation” with God - The Logos became part of his Properties: “work”. He shared the human - Unless Jesus was truly God, condition of his life and death and he could not redeem us healed it from the inside. If he from sin & death. pretended to be human, he could - Unless Jesus was truly man, not represent us before God. he could not save us. - 100% True God; 100% True For God’s love to be known to Man humankind - Integrity & property of each - If God did not love us, He would not nature remain. give us any value. We would not - United but not mixed. know. how much we mean to God. - Distinct but not separated. For Jesus Christ to be humanity’s The Christological Councils model of holiness Nestorianism - He expressed in action, suffering, - By Nestorius and prayer what it means to be - The human nature of Jesus “truly alice” God is easier to follow must have its own subject. through Jesus Hence, there are two persons of Christ. By To partake in God’s divine nature extension, Mary is only - Eternal friendship with the Holy Christotokos or Christ-bearer Trinity is possible through Jesus’ redemptive work. Hypostatic Union - Theotokos The Hypostatic Union - The Incarnation did not - The mysterious personal union of diminish the Son's divine divinity and humanity in one nature. Hence, divinity & rational subject. humanity are distinct but - In the beginning, the Son eternally not separated in the one exists with God the Father and God divine Person of Jesus the Holy Spirit Christ. By extension, Mary is - Our goal: Communion Theotokos "God-Bearer" Incarnation - Sts. Cyril & John of Antioch - Took the form of a man in a particular time, space, and culture. He was named Jesus, meaning “God saves” FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 Arianism - By Arius The Ecumenical Councils - There was a time when he 1. Council of Nicea (Year 325) was not [divine]. - His substance is "like" or Teaching Heresy Encountered: "similar" to the Father's Arianism (homoiousios) but not the same. The Son of God is Taught that the Son begotten, not came to be from Homoousios made, of the things that were not same substance and that he was - Jesus is God. He belongs to (homoousios) as from another the Father's substance and the Father substance than that is of the "same" nature of the Father (homoousios) as He. (homoiousios). - Sts. Athanasius & Hilary Saint Hilary of Poitiers Monophysitism - “God the Father and God - By Eutyches the Son are clearly one, not - A human - divine nature by a union of Person but by existed during the a unity of nature.” Incarnation. Saint Athanasius Tome of Leo the Great - “While the Father and the - Homoousios & Hypostatic Son are distinct, the Son Union belongs to the Father’s - The Incarnation did not substance and is of the diminish the Son's human same nature as He.” nature. Divinity & humanity are united but unmixed in 2. Council of Constantinople (Year the one divine Person of 381) Jesus Christ. - St. Flavian & Pope Leo the Teaching Heresy Encountered: Great Apollinarianism Christ’s human Taught that the nature – complete Logos replaced the with operations of human soul of intellect and will, Christ. Jesus was not and human body truly a human being –belongs to the since he lacks a divine person of the rational soul, Son of God who without a principle assumed it. of human individuality, freedom, and action. FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 3. Council of Ephesus (Year 431) (I’m sorry for putting it here, di magkakasya ung table eh) 4. Council of Chalcedon (Year 451) Teaching Heresy Encountered: Nestorianism Teaching Heresy Encountered: The Divine Person of Claimed that there Monophysitism the Son of God were two persons in assumed humanity Christ: one divine The one and the (mono: “one”; physis: and made it his own, and the other same Lord Jesus “nature”) from his conception. human. They also Christ is to be Mary truly became held that Mary is acknowledged in Taught that human the Mother of God only Christotokos, two natures without nature had ceased to by the human not Theotokos, since confusion, change, exist as such in Christ conception of the a creature cannot division, or when the divine person Son of God in her give birth to God. separation. of God's Son assumed womb. it. The distinction Saint Cyril of Alenxandria between the Human + Divine = - “Jesus is the one incarnate natures was never Human-Divine Mixture nature of the divine Logos, abolished by their union, but rather the understanding that while character proper to remaining God, the Logos or each of the two Son took on human life. natures was There is union in hypostasis preserved as they or hypostatic union.” came together in one person. Saint John of Antioch - “Jesus is perfect God and St. Flavian’s profession of faith perfect man. The two (echoed by Pope Leo the Great) natures are without - “So the proper character of confusion.” both natures was maintained and came together in a single person. Lowliness was taken up by majesty, weakness by strength, mortality by eternity.” The Beauty of Jesus’ Humanity Lessons from the Nativity Scene Cave - inhabited by livestock manger - feeder for livestock FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 swaddling clothes - clothing staple communion through humility and for infants born in poor families obedience. ass & ox - substitute for fireplace The recorded acts of Jesus' nursing milk - little but sufficient childhood & youth are acts of 3 shepherds - the Infant Jesus' VIPs obedience. The special duty of children is to honor their parents. - Jesus spent 30 years These symbols mean POVERTY & HUMILITY preparing for his public That through poverty, God may emphasize ministry in obedience to his humility more. Mystics to whom the Blessed parents. Mother appeared (like Sts. Bernard & Peter Damian) often said that the Lord chose a lowly The special duty of parents as and humble life to teach and demonstrate the "God's vice-regents" is to mold the radical message of the Kingdom of God. The child into obedience. shepherds recognized the Savior's majesty in poverty. His birth exalts the humble while the - By this, he counters the arrogant ones are put to shame. pride & disobedience of Adam and Eve to God, our Father. Lessons from the Holy Family of Nazareth The Holy Family is composed of The Holy Family as a Training Ground Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. for Vocation & Mission - Although Mary and Joseph's faith is in the process of Lessons from St. Joseph during the journeying, they provided an Infancy & Early Life of Jesus environment for the child Jesus to prepare for his St. Joseph is a silent worker, public ministry. protector, chaste, righteous, and has a humble status. They take after the Holy Trinity’s He was about to divorce Mary, until "communion of love." the angel commanded not to do it. - God is at the center of the Brought his pregnant wife on a loving relationship, literally & journey to Bethlehem to have the figuratively. unborn child registered under his name. The Holy Family as a Builder of He had Jesus circumcised on the Communion 8th day of his birth. Jesus becomes part of the Jewish community. Lessons from the Holy Family Dynamics Listened to the angel's command The pride & disobedience of Adam to stay in Egypt temporarily to and Eve destroyed all forms of escape the massacre of the infants communion. at Judea. The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Jesus was brought to the Temple as Joseph reveals and realizes the first-born son to be FUN FAITH 1ST QUARTER | 1ST SEMESTER | 2024-2025 consecrated. The Holy Family went to the Temple 3x in a year. The Child Jesus as Our Model to Holiness, He taught Jesus how to do Vocation, and Mission carpentry for 12 years. “There was but one, the Son of God Lessons from the Blessed Virgin Mary who wished to be the Son of Man, during the Infancy & Early Life of Jesus that he might be a humble servant, and obey a man and woman as Mary is the favored one, their servant. He was subject to immaculate, obedient, humble them.” - St. Peter of Chrysologus She said her unwavering yes to He grew in wisdom and in stature divine motherhood. (Luke 2: 52) through obedience. Although exalted by her cousin, Elizabeth, Mary sang praises to God Obedience to the Obedience to Obedience to instead: "My soul proclaims the Law of Nature Parents the Will of the greatness of the Lord." Father Thanks to her preparedness, the infant Jesus was covered in Human and Mental Maturity Spiritual Maturity swaddling clothes. She held him to Experimental Knowledge her bosom and nursed him even if she had little milk. Went through the Taught that Obedient to the Went to Egypt following the Angel's phases of physical humility makes redemptive work command to Joseph. & cognitive one the greatest his Father made Even if she didn't need to be development. in the Kingdom of him do until purified, she chose to obey the God. death. Used familiar & Mosaic Law. Her offering of two cultural Dignified/ gave pigeons spoke of her humble objects/references value to work. status. to illustrate the When Jesus was 12, he was Kingdom of God. presented to the Temple as a sign that he was handed over to God. "Do whatever he tells you." She was instrumental in the first nature miracle of Jesus. She knew that there's no turning back in Jesus' public ministry once the miracle is performed. Bore her sorrows patiently until the end of Jesus' public ministry.