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STATEMENTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS IN

THEOLOGY

THE CREED

1. Man is by nature and vocation, a religious being. Coming fromGod, going toward God; man lives a fully human life only if hefreely lives by his bond with God.

2. The Church teaches that the one true God, our Creator and Lord,can be known with certainty from his works, by the natural lightof human reason. (Vat. I, can.2)

3. God has revealed himself to man by gradually communicatinghis own mystery in deeds and words.

4. Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single depositof the Word of God (DV 10), in which, as in a mirror, the pilgrimChurch contemplates God, the source of all her riches.

5. God is the author of Sacred Scripture because he inspired itshuman authors; he acts in them and by means of them. He thusgives assurance that their writings teach without error his savingtruth. (Cf. DV 11)

6. The Church accepts and venerates as inspired the 46 book of the

Old Testament and the 27 books of the New.

7. Faith is a personal adherence of the whole of man to God whoreveals himself. It involves an asset of the intellect and will to theself-revelation God has made through his deeds and words.

8. Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinityand the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons ordividing the substance; for the person of the Father is one, theSons is another, the Holy Spirits is another; but the Godhead ofthe Father, son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their

majesty coeternal. (Athanasian Creed)

9. God alone created the universe freely, directly and without anyhelp.

10. By divine Providence, God cares for and sustains hiscreation. The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil

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is a mystery that God illuminates by His Son Jesus Christ whodied and rose to vanquish evil.

11. Man occupies a unique place in creation: he is in the image ofgod; in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material

worlds; he is created male and female, God established him inhis friendship.

12. Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants humannature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of theoriginal holiness and justice; this deprivation is called originalsin.

13. Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and theother human, not confused but united in the one person of GodsSon.

14. Christ, Son of God, and Lord are titles which indicatewho Jesus is.

15. Mary is truly Mother of God since she is the mother ofthe eternal Son of God made man, who is God himself.

16. Mary is the most excellent fruit of redemption (SC 103);from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preservedfrom the stain of original sin and she remained pure fro allpersonal sin throughout her life.

17. The mystery of the Incarnation (conception and birth) andthe Paschal mystery (passion, crucifixion, death, descent intohell, resurrection and ascension are the mysteries of ourredemption.

18. Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation. Theredemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came to givehis life as a ransom for many (Mt. 20:28)

19. Christ, the first- born from the dead (Col. 1:18), is the

principle of our won resurrection, even now by the justificationour souls (Rom 6:4), and one day by the new life he will impart toour bodies (Rom 8:11).

20. Christs ascension marks the definitive entrance of Jesushumanity into Gods heavenly domain.

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21. On Judgment Day at the end of the world, Christ will come inglory to judge the living and the dead to achieve the definitivetriumph of good over evil.

22. From the beginning to the end of time, whenever God sends his

Son, he always sends hi Spirit: their mission is conjoined andinseparable.

23. The word Church means convocation. It designates theassembly of those whom Gods Word convokes, i.e gatherstogether to form the People of God, and who themselves,nourished with the Body of Christ, become the Body of Christ,and Temple of the Holy Spirit.

24.The soul Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to beone, holy, catholic and apostolic subsists in the Catholic Church

which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishopsin communion with him. Nevertheless, many elements ofsanctification and of truth are found outside its visible confines.(LG 8)

25. The bishop of the Church of Rome, successor to St. Peter,is head of the college of bishops , the Vicar of Christ and Pastorof the universal Church. He enjoys, by divine institution,supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care ofsouls.

26. Lay people share in the three-fold office and mission ofChrist as priests, prophet and king.

27. Christ endowed the Magisterium of the Church with the giftof infallibility in matters of faith and morals.

28. Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortalsoul at every moment of his death; either entrance into heaven,purgatory, or everlasting damnation.

THE SACRAMENTS

1. Liturgy is rightly seen as an exercise of the priestly office ofJesus Christ. It involves the presentation of mans sanctificationunder the guise of signs perceptible to the senses, and itsaccomplishment in ways appropriate to each of these signs. In itsfull public worship is performed by the Mystical Body of JesusChrist. (SC 7)

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2. The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted byChrist and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life isdispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments arecelebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each

sacrament.

3. Christian initiation is accomplished by three Sacraments:Baptism Confirmation, and Eucharist.

4. The Eucharist is the memorial of Christs Passover, that is, of thework of salvation accomplished by the life, death andresurrection of Christ, a work made present by the liturgicalaction.

5. The forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is conferred by

a particular sacrament called the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

6. The sacrament of Reconciliation is a whole consisting in threeactions of the penitent (repentance, confession, reparation) andthe priests absolution.

7. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick has as its purpose theconferral of a special grace on the Christian experiencing thedifficulties inherent in the condition of grave illness or old age.

8. The ministerial priesthood differs in essence from the common

priesthood of the faithful because it confers a sacred power forthe service of the faithful. The ordained ministers exercise theirservice for the People of God by teaching, divine worship andpastoral governance.

9. The Sacrament of Matrimony is based on the consent of thecontracting parties, that is, on their will to give themselves, eachto the other, mutually and definitively, in order to live a covenantof faithful and fruitful love .

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. Freedom is the power to act or not to act, and so to performdeliberate acts of ones own. Freedom attains perfection in itsacts when directed toward God, the sovereign God.

2. The object, the intention and the circumstances make up thethree sources of the morality of human acts.

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3. Conscience is a judgment of reason by which the human personrecognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. A human beingmust always obey the certain judgment of his conscience.

4. Sins are tightly evaluated according to their gravity, which isdistinguished as Mortal or Venial.

5. The First Commandment summons man to believe in God, tohope and love him above all else.

6. The Second Commandment enjoins respect for the Lords name.The name of the Lord is holy.

7. The Sabbath which represented the completion of the firstcreation, has been replaced by Sunday which recalls the new

creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ.

8. According to the Fourth Commandment, God has willed that,after him, we should honor our parents and those whom he hasvested with authority for our good.

9. The Fifth Commandment teaches that every human life, from themoment of conception until death, is sacred because the humanperson has been willed for its own sake in the image and likenessof God.

10.The tradition of the Church has understood the SixthCommandment as encompassing the whole human sexuality.Every baptised person is called to lead a chaste life. Thecovenant which spouses have feely entered into entails faithfullove.

11.The Seventh Commandment enjoins the practice of justice andcharity in the administration of earthly goods and the fruits ofmens labor.

12. The Eight Commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth

in our relations with others.

13. The Ninth Commandment warns against lust or carnalconcupiscence.

14. The Tenth Commandment forbids avarice arising from apassion for riches and their attendant power.

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