Church History
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The Seven Petitions
On this handout, students match the meaning to each line of the Lord’s Prayer.
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A Prayer Puzzle
On this handout, students must use clues to unscramble words related to prayer.
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Spirit Telecom: The Universal Wireless Prayer Network
This handout guides students as they locate and read various Scripture passages focusing on the many way God calls us to prayer.
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Helping the Church of Today and Tomorrow
This handout challenges students to reflect on and brainstorm what it would have been like to create Church teachings and rules shortly after Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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Around the World in More Than Eighty Days
Let’s take a glance around the globe to see some of the missionary efforts that began during the Fifteenth through Seventeenth centuries.
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The East-West Split
Looking back over the first 1500 years of Church history, the picture is not one of perfect harmony. Political conflicts, religious controversies, invasions, and condemnations created sometimes occasional, sometimes lasting rifts. For the Eastern Church and the Latin Church, the …
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The Divinity of Jesus: An Early Christian Debate
A reading about the early Christian debate over the divinity of Jesus.
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Handout: The Holy Trinity
Descriptions of how each person of the trinity is present in the liturgy.
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Handout: A People a Body a Temple
Scripture verses about the Church as the people of God, the body of Christ, and temple of the Spirit.
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Handout: Scripture and Tradition
Connections between Scripture passages and Catholic Traditions.
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A Preassessment
Answer each question by writing what you know for sure, what you think you know but are unsure about, and things related to the topic that you would like to explore.
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Aquinas’s Five Proofs for the Existence of God
The Summa Theologica is a famous work written by Saint Thomas Aquinas between AD 1265 and 1274. It is divided into three main parts and presents reasoning for almost all core Christian beliefs. The Summa Theologica is well known for …
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What Do I Know about the Catholic Faith
In the time allotted for this exercise, answer each question to the best of your knowledge. Each set of questions corresponds to the units you will study in this course and represents content you will cover in more detail in …
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A Preassessment of My Knowledge of Consecrated Life
A preassessment for students about their knowledge of terms associated with consecrated life.
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A Preassessment of My Knowledge of the Sacrament of Holy Orders
A preassessment about things that a student already knows, thinks that they know, and wants to know about the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
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A Preassessment of My Knowledge of the Vocation of Holy Orders
A preassessment of one’s knowledge of terms and concepts associated with the Vocation of Holy Orders.