Part 1 YouCat: Mid Term Exam Review
“I Believe in God the Father Almighty...”
1) Chi Rho – Christ in Greek
2) In hoc signo vinces – by this sign you will conquer
3) Alpa and omega – beginning and the end
4) IHS – Jesus in Latin
5) Cross with an M- To Jesus through Mary
6) Fish: Christianity
7) Polytheism – belief in many gods
8) Monotheism – Belief in one God
9) Constantine – first Christian emperor
10) Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam – all for the greater glory of God
11) Purpose in life: know love serve God so we can be happy with God in Heaven
12) St. Thomas Aquinas: wrote Summa Theologica, 5 proofs for existence of God
13) Reason: ability to think on our own
14) Creation: reasonable proof for existence of God – creation - Creator
15) Divine Revelation: God unveils or makes himself known to us
16) Sacred Scripture: written Word of God
17) Sacred Tradition: spoken Word of God
18) Magisterium: teaching Word of God
19) Deposit of Faith: all truths handed to us by Christ and his Church
20) Trinity: 3 distinctly different persons in one God
21) 1st person: Father
22) 2nd Person: Son
23) 3rd person: Holy Spirit
24) Supreme being: above all
25) Pure spirit: not confined to time or space or a body
26) Infinitely perfect: has all perfections to infinity and beyond
27) Omnipotent: all powerful
28) Omniscient: all knowing
29) Omnipresent: all present
30) Eternal: always was, always will be, not created can not be destroyed
31) Adonia: Lord
32) Yahweh: I am
33) Abba: Father
34) ) Creed: statement of Belief
35) Agnostic: believe in God, but not a personal God who is needed
36) Atheist: believe in no God
37) Faith: to believe
 Free – not forced
 Certain – must not be wrong
 Reasonable – must make sense
 Communal – must be shared
 Professed – must be lived
38) St. Augustine: Sinner Turned Saint: “Our hearts will not rest until it rests in you.”
“Creator of Heaven...”(all invisible)
39) Angels: means messenger- praise God, protect us, messenger
40) Pure spirit: angels have no bodies or gender
41) When we die: we do not become angels
42) Heaven: God’s eternal domain
43) Hell: the eternal absence of God and his love
44) Gehenna: Hebrew word for hell
45) Michael: leader of God’s army
46) Gabriel: messenger to Mary at the Annunciation
47) Raphael: guardian to Tobias in book of Tobit
48) Lucifer: name means light. Fallen angel = Satan
49) Demons: fallen angels
50) 9 choir of Angels: thrones, dominions, principalities, virtues, powers, archangels,
guardian angels, cherubim, seraphim
51) Human Soul: intellect, free will, conscience and capacity to love
“and earth” (all visible)
52) God Creates everything
 ex nihilo: out of nothing
 continues Keeps everything in existence
 Monogenism: we come from original parents
 Created everything good
53) How God creates? Important but left to science: 7 days, big bang, evolution...
54) Superfluous: meaningless. No matter what science finds, it will never prove the
creator meaningless or non existent
55) Why God Creates? LOVE and wants to share this with us.
56) Image of God: the soul, with an intellect and free will
57) Human Dignity: life has value and worth because we are made in God’s image
58) Steward: see everything as a gift from God and care for it
59) Shamar: guard and protect in Hebrew... one of Adam’s jobs
60) Solidarity: oneness, unity because we are all made by God with equality
61) From the Rib: God creates eve from Adam’s rib to show equality
62) Immortal soul: lives forever
63) Immaterial soul: not physical like rocks, plants or flesh
64) Anima: Latin for soul or life
65) Original Justice: 4 gifts  no suffering death/infused Knowledge/sanctifying
grace/control of passions
66) Original Sin: first sin of Adam and Eve passed onto all humanity. Loss of
Original justice(4 gifts)
67) Concupiscence: inclination to sin due to our fallen nature
68) Two shall become one: Sacrament of Matrimony  Union of Man and Woman
69) Hate the sin, not the sinner: With any sin, like Homosexuality we hate the act, not
the person. Still show love and respect for every person no matter what their sin
70) Whirlpool of Sin: we can not remove ourselves for cycle of sin, we need a savior
71) Redeemer: Jesus gets back what was lost by sin by his life/death and
resurrection(gets the 4 gifts back)
72) Genesis 3:15: first promise of a savior.
73) Physical evil: things like tornado, earthquakes, meteor destroying planet
74) Moral evil: things like murder, rape, drug abuse...
75) Why does God allow evil? God = 100% good. He does not create evil, but
allows it to bring a greater good to come out of it.
“I Believe in the Jesus Christ...”
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Jesus: God Saves
Christ: anointed one, messiah, savior
Adonia: Lord
Emmanuel: God is with us
2nd Person of the Trinity: distinctly different person from the Father and Holy Spirit, but
the same God- all knowing, all powerful, all present, eternal
Logos- “Word” of God
Evangelium – Gospel – Good news, contains life of Christ – Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John
Christians: anyone who follows Christ as their savior
Hypostatic Union: perfect union of two natures(human and divine) in the person of Jesus
– the God-Man, 100% and 100%
 Jesus has two intellects and two wills that are perfectly united and
unconfused. (Human and Divine-godly)
“Born of the Virgin Mary...”
1) Incarnation: the Son of God became flesh in the person of Jesus
2) Annunciation: the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked her to be the mother of
God. Mary say yes and she conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
3) Immaculate Conception: the conception of Mary in the womb of Anne. She was
conceived without original sin so she could be the Mother of God
4) Fiat: hebrew for Yes... Mary’s yes to being the mother of Jesus
5) Theotokos: Mary is the “Mother of God.” The “God Bearer.”
6) Ever Virgin Mary: virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ
7) New Eve: Mary is the spiritual mother of all the living for bring Christ to us
8) Bethlehem: “house of Bread” and city of David
9) Presentation: Jesus is presented at the Temple as a Jewish baby
10) Finding in the temple: Jesus was about 12 and in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover
and was in the temple teaching Jewish priests
11) Hidden Life of Christ: first 30 years are relatively unknown
12) Baptism in the Jordan River: Start of Public Ministry
13) Wedding Feast of Cana: first Miracle
14) Proclamation of the Kingdom: The kingdom is for EVERYONE... summarized by
Jesus’ Sermon on the mount, the beatitudes, his miracles...
15) Transfiguration: Jesus shows he is God to Peter, James and John and Moses and
Elijah are there.
16) Last Supper: the first Mass where Jesus Institutes the Eucharist and Holy Orders
“I believe in the forgiveness of sins...”
1) Bind and Loose: Jesus gave Peter and his first apostles the power and
authority to bind(not forgive) and loose(forgive) sins
2) Absolution: Prayer the priest prays that takes away sins
3) Sin vs the Holy Spirit: the only sin that can’t be forgiven, deny God the
power to forgive you
4) What sacraments remove sin?
Baptism: remove original sin and all personal sin, mortal and or venial
Confession: remove mortal and venial
Eucharist: removes venial
“I believe in Jesus Christ... who suffered died and was buried...”
1) Why do we suffer? Effect of sin, not God’s plan and because Jesus commands
us... pick up your cross and follow me.
2) Redemption: to get back what was lost
3) Redeemer: Jesus, who by his cross and resurrection sets us free
4) Personal Suffering: can be Redemptive if we unite it with Christ’s Cross
5) Longinus: one of the roman soldier who witnessed Christ’s death and
converted to Christianity
6) Spear: weapon used to pierce side of Christ to make sure he was dead
7) blood and water: what poured from Christ’s side when he was pierced
8) Shroud of Turin: burial cloth supposed used to burry Christ with his bloody
image
9) Sorrowful Mysteries: Agony in the Garden, Scourging at the Pillar, Crowning
with Thorns, Carrying Cross, Crucifixion
10) Mediator: a go between man, Jesus restores communication between us and
God through the Cross
11) Mediatrix: the go between woman, Mary, She assists the savior to restore
communication. Her yes is the gateway for grace.
12) Source of all grace: the Cross
13) Christ: Savior/Anointed one/Messiah
“He Descended into Hell”
1) Gates of Heaven: shut after fall of Adam and Eve
2) Gehenna: Hebrew for Hell... domain of Satan
3) Sheol: Hebrew for place of the dead
4) Jesus descended into HELL??? Not Gehenna by the place of the dead to
gather up all the faithful souls who had died before his death on the cross.
5) Key to Heaven: the cross.... Jesus death on the cross opens gates
“On the Third day he arose again from the dead.”
1) Fulcrum of faith = Resurrection: without Jesus Resurrection our faith is
useless. Jesus resurrection proves he is God and worthy of our Adoration
2) Glorified Body: still had wounds, but not bound to space and time not to
die again but to live forever
3) proof of resurrection: empty tomb/Jesus appeared to over 500
people/witness of martyrs, why would they march to their death for a lie?
4) Sign of Jonah: in belly of whale for 3 days, in tomb for 3 days, come out to
new life.
5) 40 days: visits with his disciples to prove resurrection/teach/last minute
instruction
6) Mary Magdalene: first witness of the resurrection
“He Ascended into Heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father...”
1) Ascension: Jesus lifts self body and soul up to heaven 40 days after
resurrection
2) Pentecost: Jesus sends his Holy Spirit to strengthen his apostles 50 days
after his resurrection
3) At right hand of the Father: shows Jesus kingship and that he is in heaven
“From there he shall come to Judge the living and the dead...”
1)Particular Judgment: judgment we face when we when we die
2)General Judgment: judgment we face at the end of time, “a public viewing”
and not a new judgment or different one from our particular
3) Parousia: means “personal presence,” the final judgment, the end times
“I believe in the Holy Spirit”
1) Ruah: name of the holy spirit meaning “wind”
2) dynimus: name of holy spirit meaning Power
3) 3rd Person of the Trinity: Holy Spirit
4) Lord Giver of Life: job of Holy Spirit, to distribute graces gained by Christ
5) Charisms: gifts given by the Holy Spirit to each person to spread the word of
God
6) Symbols of the Holy Spirit: wind, dove, fire, water, oil
7) Prophet: means mouth, people inspired by the Holy Spirit to speak the Truth
8) Pentecost: the first confirmation: strengthen to life, love, spread, defend Faith
9) Soul of the Church: the Holy Spirit dwells in Church as souirce of life, “life
blood”
10) Mystical Body of Christ: Jesus = the head, we make up the body(organs,
hands, feet, big toe...) and the Holy Spirit is the soul
11) Anima: Latin for life or soul
12) Holy Spirit = God: all knowing, all powerful, all present, eternal
“I believe in the Holy Catholic Church...”
1) Ecclesia: latin for Chruch, “to call forth”
2) Four Marks of the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic
3) Catholic: Universal, for everyone
4) Apostolic: traces roots back to the Apostles
5) Found of Church: Jesus in 33 AD
6) First Pope: Peter
7) Mt. 16: 13-20: You are peter and upon this rock I will build my Church...
8) Indefectibility: Church will last till end of time(guaranteed by Holy Spirit)
9) Infallible: Pope and popes unite with pope can not make errors when
teaching faith and morals. Does not guarantee that they are sinless... just can
err in teachings
10) Mission of Church: Lead people to heaven by teaching, ruling and
sanctifying
11) Sanctify: make holy... mass, prayer, sacraments...
12) Theocracy: Kingdom where God is king. The church is not a democracy or
left to popular opinion
13) Divine institution: The church is not any institution. The holy Spirit dwells in
it as a source of Life. It is living breathing organism... the body of Christ.
14) Sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation
15) Bride of Christ: the church(us)... he is the groom willing to die for his
bride
“I believe in the Communion of Saints...”
1) Saints in Heaven, Souls in Purgatory, People on Earth
2) Can help and need help: souls on earth
3) Can help and need no help: Saints in Heaven
4) Are helpless: people in purgatory
5) Church militant: people on earth fighting to get to heaven
6) Church Triumphant: saints who have made it to heaven
“I believe in the forgiveness of sins...”
1) Bind and Loose: Jesus gave Peter and his first apostles the power and authority to
bind(not forgive) and loose(forgive) sins
2) Absolution: Prayer the priest prays that takes away sins
3) Sin vs the Holy Spirit: the only sin that can’t be forgiven, deny God the power to
forgive you
4) What sacraments remove sin?
Baptism: remove original sin and all personal sin, mortal and or venial
Confession: remove mortal and venial
Eucharist: removes venial
“I believe in the resurrection of the Dead...”
1) Resurrection of the Dead??? our bodies will reunite with our souls at the end of time.
We will either be praising God in heaven body and soul or being tormented in hell bod y
and soul
2) Proof of Resurrection of Body: at least two persons have their body in heaven right
now...Jesus and Mary
3) How will this happen? Nobody really knows... we will have to wait and see!!
“Life everlasting...”
1) Begins at??? Baptism
2) Heaven: God’s domain... and endless moment of LOVE!! Everlasting Joy, Peace,
Happiness...
3) Hell: Gehenna in Greek. Satan’s domain. And endless moment void of God/Love.
Everlasting sadness, division, pain, misery...
4) Purgatory: a condition of purification. Souls who die in a state of grace(no unforgiven
mortal sin on their soul) but need to make up for effects of sin. Love for God is not pure.
5) Effects of Sin: every sin can be forgiven but even after the sin is forgiven there are
effects of that sin on the “Body of Christ” and out of Justice, these effects must be fixed.
We can do it by good works and acts of love while on earth. Think of them as spiritual
scars
6) Temporal punishment: the temporary punishment we have to make up the effects of
sins on our soul
7) Indulgences: good works, prayers or deeds set aside by the Church to remove temporal
punishment. They can be offered for yourself or for souls in purgatory.
8) Plenary Indulgence : an indulgence that removes all temporal punishment
9) Partial Indulgence: an indulgence that removes some temporal punishment
10) Mortal sin: Serious sin that must fit three conditions: 1) it is serious matter 2) you
know it is serious 3) you do it freely
“Amen”
1) Amen: “Yes”... I believe. You signature approving of everything you just prayed in
the Creed.
5 Major World Religions
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
Hindu