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- 1. CHRISTIAN LIVING 11 G R A D E - 1 1 S T. J O H N PA R O C H I A L S C H O O L
- 2. MARKS OF THE CHURCH Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: • Understand that Jesus Christ founded only one Church • Understand that the Church is holy because her Founder and head is Holy • Understand what it means for the Church to be a Catholic • Understand that the Church was built upon the apostles
- 3. THE CHURCH IS ONE • Before Jesus ascended into heaven after his resurrection, he had prayed to the Father “Keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as We are” (Jn. 17:11) • He also prayed for all those who will become Christian and those who would be brought to birth by the apostles: “So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me” (Jn 17:21)
- 4. THE CHURCH AS ONE • ”We believe that the Church which Christ founded and for which He prayed is indefectibly one in faith and in worship and one in communion of a single hierarchy” (Paul VI, The Creed of the People of God, 21; cf. CCC 813-822)
- 5. THE CHURCH IS HOLY •Our Lord Jesus exhorts us to be holy as our heavenly Father is holy (cf. Mt. 5:48) •The Church tirelessly carries out the mission of salvation mandated by the Savior.
- 6. THE CHURCH IS HOLY • The Catechism of the Catholic Church unequivocal in its teachings. “The Church is held as a matter of faith, to be unfailingly holy. This is because Christ, the Son of God, who with the Father and the Spirit is hailed as “alone holy”, loved the Church as himself as his body endowed her with the gift of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God. The Church then is the “holy people of God and her members are called saints”
- 7. THE CHURCH IS HOLY • Because of her origin • Possesses holiness of doctrine • Provides mean to holiness The real fruits of the Church are the saints.
- 8. THE CHURCH IS CATHOLIC •As St. Ignatius of Antioch stated: “Where there is Jesus Christ, there is the Catholic Church” •The fullness of the Body of Christ which is the Church subsists in the Catholic Church (cf, Eph 1:22-23)
- 9. THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE CHURCH MANIFESTS ITSELF IN MANY WAYS The Church obeys the Lord’s command, The missionary mandate “ Go, therefore and make them disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Mt. 28:19-20) The Church expresses her catholicity in the sense that she continues to teach what Jesus had taught which was handed down by the apostles
- 10. In actual reality, the Catholic Church is universal. Her physical presence in terms of her leaders, workers and members through worship and sacraments is concretely seen and felt everywhere.
- 11. THE CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC • The Church is apostolic in her origin because Jesus established his Church under the leadership of Peter. He even assured Peter and the apostles that he would be with them until the end of time.
- 12. THE CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC BECAUSE SHE IS FOUNDED ON THE APOSTLES IN THREE WAYS Apostolic in Origin Apostolic in Teaching Apostolic in Government