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The Church

The Church. Sacrament of Salvation. The Church. Chapter 7. Chapter 7. The Church as a Communion of Saints. Chapter Objectives. The student will be able to understand:. The Communion of Saints Indulgences What is a saint The intercession of the saints The Final Judgment

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The Church

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  1. The Church Sacrament of Salvation

  2. The Church Chapter 7

  3. Chapter 7 The Church as a Communion of Saints

  4. Chapter Objectives The student will be able to understand: • The Communion of Saints • Indulgences • What is a saint • The intercession of the saints • The Final Judgment • The relationship between the heavenly and earthly liturgies • The Particular Judgment • Purgatory • Aid to the souls in Purgatory • Hell • Heaven • The Parousia

  5. Keys to Chapter 7 • There is a real solidarity among the members of the Pilgrim, Suffering, and Triumphant Churches. • It is right for us on earth to venerate the saints in Heaven and to come to the aid of the souls in Purgatory. • The Mass is a window into Heaven. • The future holds death and judgment, followed by Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, and finally the Resurrection from the Dead and the Final Judgment. • We choose our eternal destiny in this life.

  6. For Discussion: • What is the Communion of Saints? • How do we participate in the heavenly liturgy? • What does the “end of time” signify for Christians? • What are the Particular Judgment, the Second Coming, and the Last Judgment? • What are Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory? continued

  7. For Discussion: • Why do we pray for the Holy Souls inPurgatory? • How can a merciful God send anyone to an eternal Hell? • What is the meaning of koinonia or communio, and how do these words describe the reality of the Church? • How can the saints intercede for us?

  8. The Communion of Saints Lesson Objectives The Communion of Saints Indulgences What is a Saint

  9. The Communion of Saints Basic Questions What is the Communion of Saints? • The Communion of Saints is the unity of all the members of the Body of Christ on earth, in Purgatory, and in Heaven.

  10. The Communion of Saints Basic Questions What is an indulgence? • The members of the Body of Christ on earth can assist the members in Purgatory through indulgences, that is, remission of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.

  11. The Communion of Saints Basic Questions What is a saint? • A saint is a member of the Church—the Mystical Body of Christ—on earth, in Purgatory, or in Heaven. The Church may officially declare a member of the Church in Heaven to be a saint by canonization, adding him to the calendar and promoting his public veneration.

  12. Focus Question • What is the first meaning of the term Communion of Saints? • Through the Mass and especially in the reception of the Eucharist, the members of the pilgrim Church on earth are in communion with the Church in Heaven.

  13. Focus Question • What is the second meaning of the phrase Communion of Saints? • Through our union with Christ, we are brought into communion with everyone else who is united to him, that is, the entire Church on earth, in Purgatory, and in Heaven.

  14. Focus Question • How do we enter the Communion of Saints? • In Baptism, we are incorporated into the Mystical Body of Christ, thus becoming adopted sons and daughters of the Father and brothers and sisters in Christ.

  15. Focus Question • What is the relationship between “the holy catholic Church” and “the Communion of Saints”? • In a sense they mean the same thing.

  16. Focus Question • In this phase of salvation history, in what three states does the Church exist? • The Church Militant, which is the pilgrim Church on earth, is comprised of Christ’s faithful here on earth. • The Church Suffering includes those in Purgatory who have died in communion with God, but who have not yet been fully purified. • The Church Triumphant is the heavenly Church in glory.

  17. Focus Question • What is the Communion of Saints? • It is the union within the Church between God and man and among men.

  18. Focus Question • What is the “work” of the entire Church in all three states? • It is to continue the saving work of Jesus Christ.

  19. Focus Question • What is the “work” of the Church Triumphant? • The blessed souls who enjoy heavenly glory intercede for the Church on earth.

  20. Focus Question • What is the “work” of the Church Militant? • Christians on earth remain united to Christ and work to bring the entire world into union with him.

  21. Focus Question • What is the “work” of the Church Suffering? • The Holy Souls in Purgatory: • become purified so as to be able to enter Heaven; and • intercede for the Church on earth.

  22. Guided Exercise • Break down the selection from the Catechism of Pius X into bullet points to show the three ways that the Church, in its different states, is one.

  23. Focus Question • What does the word “indulgence” mean literally? • It means a freeing from a penalty.

  24. Focus Question • Is an indulgence the forgiveness of sin? • No. It is the remission of the temporal punishment due to sins for which the guilt has already been forgiven.

  25. Focus Question • What is the “source” of an indulgence? • The source of an indulgence is the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.

  26. Focus Question • Who can dispense the treasury of the satisfactions of the Church? • The Church herself can dispense them because she is the minister of salvation.

  27. Focus Question • What is the distinction between a partial and plenary indulgence? • A partial indulgence removes part of the temporal punishment due to sin. A plenary indulgence removes all the punishment due to sin.

  28. Focus Question • Who can gain indulgences? • The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

  29. Focus Question • What is the basis of the efficacy of an indulgence? • An indulgence is an act of faith on the part of a member of the Church Militant that requires an offering of some prayer, sacrifice, or work of service in imitation of Christ and the saints. This act builds virtue and disposes us to receive grace. For this act, the Church rewards us from the “treasury of merits”—the abundance of grace won for us by Christ and by his faithful people down through the ages.

  30. Guided Exercise • Conduct a think/pair/share using the following question: • How do indulgences reflect the solidarity that exists among the members of the Church in her three current states?

  31. Guided Exercise • Conduct a think/pair/share using the following question: • What would you say to someone who objects that indulgences are corrupt because people can use them to buy forgiveness of sins even before they have committed them?

  32. Focus Question • What is the literal meaning of the word saint? • It means “holy one.”

  33. Focus Question • What is another meaning of the word saint in the Catholic Church? • It is a title that refers to those Christian men and women who remained faithful during their time on earth and have reached the glory of Heaven.

  34. Focus Question • What is the official process for declaring someone a saint? • Canonization.

  35. Focus Question • What does canonization establish? • The Church proclaims that the person canonized practiced heroic virtue, lived in fidelity to God’s grace, and is now in Heaven.

  36. Focus Question • What is the importance of saints for the pilgrim Church? • The Church proposes them to us as models and intercessors, that is, as persons we can imitate and pray to for help.

  37. Focus Question • What is celebrated on November 1 in the liturgy in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church? • The Solemnity of All Saints celebrates all of the unknown saints who are now in Heaven.

  38. Focus Question • What do all the saints, except the Blessed Virgin Mary, have in common with us? • They were sinners just like us, who had to struggle to overcome temptation. Like they were, we are saints-in-the-making.

  39. Focus Question • Why is it right for us to ask the saints in Heaven for help? • Their work in Heaven is to intercede constantly for the Church on earth.

  40. Veneration of the Saints in Heaven Lesson Objectives The intercession of the saints

  41. Veneration of the Saints in Heaven Basic Questions Why do Catholics venerate the saints? • The Sacred Scriptures, the early Church, and the Magisterium all testify that it is a good thing to venerate the saints in Heaven and pray for their intercession.

  42. Focus Question • What has always been the attitude of the pilgrim Church toward the saints? • The Church has always venerated the Apostles, the martyrs, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the angels, and has asked for their intercession.

  43. Focus Question • Do the saints help us by their own power? • No. They intercede for us. All benefits come from God the Father through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  44. Focus Question • Where does the New Testament support the idea that the members of the Church should pray for one another? • One example would be St. Paul’s instruction to his disciple, St. Timothy, that “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men” (1 Tm 2:1-4).

  45. Focus Question • What is an intercessory prayer? • It is praying to God on behalf of another.

  46. Focus Question • How did the Roman centurion offer an example of intercessory prayer? • He asked Jesus for his servant to be healed. He interceded for his servant.

  47. Focus Question • If God already knows our needs and the needs of our neighbor, why should we pray? • Intercessory prayer is a powerful way to express love for others.

  48. Focus Question • Who are the “saints” who can pray for us? • They are all members of the Body of Christ, both those in Heaven and those on earth, that is, other Christians. (This includes the souls in Purgatory.)

  49. Focus Question • In Colossians, when St. Paul uses the word saint, to whom does he refer? • Both the living members of the Church and those “in light,” that is, those who are now in Heaven.

  50. Focus Question • How do we know from Sacred Scripture that the saints in Heaven are praying for us? • In Revelation, the angels bear the “golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.”

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