Catechism for Youth
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
CATECHISM FOR YOUTH CARLOS MIGUEL BUELA CATECHISM FOR YOUTH Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church New York – 2008 Cover Design © 2008, IVE Press Cover Art © Servizio Fotografico “L’Osservatore Romano” Text © IVE Press, New York Edited by the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 113 East 117th Street New York, NY 10035 Ph. (212) 534 5257 Fax (212) 534 5258 E-mail [email protected] http:// www.ivepress.org ISBN 1-933871-48-2 © Catalogued in the Library of Congress of the US. Printed in the United States of America ∞ Nihil obstat Imprimatur Rev. Luis Kukovica, SJ Manuel Menéndez Censor Bishop of San Martín Buenos Aires - November 23, 1975. San Martín - January 2,1976. C 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents .............................................................. 5 To the Reader ................................................................... 11 THE FOUR PARTS OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE . 15 1. What We Must Believe .................................................. 15 2. What We Must Receive ................................................. 18 3. What We Must Do ......................................................... 19 4. What We Must Pray ...................................................... 21 PART ONE WHAT WE MUST BELIEVE .............. 23 The Profession of Faith .................................................... 23 Section One “I Believe”— “We Believe” ............................. 27 Chapter One Man is “Capable of God” ......................................... 29 1. The Desire for God ..................................................................... 29 2. Ways to Arrive at the Knowledge of God ................................... 30 Chapter Two Man’s Encounter with God ..................................... 33 1. The Revelation of God ................................................................ 33 2. The Transmission of Divine Revelation .................................... 34 Chapter Three Man’s Response to God ........................................ 41 1. I Believe ...................................................................................... 41 2. We Believe .................................................................................. 41 3. Youth and Faith .......................................................................... 42 Section Two The Profession of the Christian Faith: The Creed ............................................................................. 45 5 CARLOS MIGUEL BUELA Introduction.................................................................................... 47 Chapter One I Believe in God the Father ...................................... 49 Article 1 “I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth” ...... 49 1. God is One and Three ................................................................ 49 2. Creation ...................................................................................... 59 3. Original Sin ................................................................................. 62 Chapter Two I Believe in Jesus Christ ........................................... 67 Article 2 “I Believe in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord” ....................................... 67 1. The divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ ......................................... 67 2. The Humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ .................................... 69 3. One Lord Jesus Christ, True God and True Man ..................... 70 Article 3 “I Believe that he was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and was born of the Virgin Mary” ............................................................................. 72 1. The Most Holy Virgin Mary ....................................................... 72 2. The Mysteries of the Life of Christ ............................................ 80 Article 4 “He Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, Died and was Buried” ... 93 1. The Preludes to the Passion ....................................................... 93 2. The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ........................................ 94 3. The Work of our Salvation .......................................................... 96 4. Love for the Cross ...................................................................... 97 Article 5 “He Descended into Hell and on the Third Day He Rose from the Dead” . 102 1. Christ Descended into Hell ...................................................... 102 2. On the Third Day He Rose from among the Dead ................. 103 Article 6 “He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty” .................................................................................................... 105 At the Right Hand of the Father .................................................. 106 Article 7 “From thence He will come again to Judge the Living and the Dead” ................................................................................................................ 106 1. Final Judgment and Particular Judgment ................................ 106 2. The Final Purification or Purgatory ......................................... 108 Chapter Three I Believe in the Holy Spirit ................................... 111 Article 8 “I Believe in the Holy Spirit” .................................................................... 111 1. Who is the Holy Spirit? .............................................................. 111 2. Pentecost .................................................................................. 112 3. The Holy Spirit, the Gift from God .......................................... 113 4. The Fruits of the Holy Spirit .................................................... 113 5. The Holy Spirit and the Church ............................................... 114 Article 9 “I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church, In the Communion of Saints” ....... 116 Introduction.................................................................................. 116 1. The Nature of the Church ........................................................ 117 2. Attributes or Marks of the Church of Jesus Christ .................. 119 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3. The Members of the Church .................................................... 126 4. The Three States of the Church ............................................... 129 Conclusion .................................................................................... 130 Article 10: “I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins” ...................................................... 132 Article 11: “I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body” .............................................. 134 1. Christ’s Resurrection and our Resurrection ........................... 135 2. Dying in Christ Jesus ................................................................ 137 Article 12: “I Believe in Life Everlasting” ............................................................... 140 PART TWO WHAT WE MUST RECEIVE ........... 143 The celebration of the Christian mystery ....................... 143 Section One The Sacramental Economy ........................... 147 Chapter One The Paschal Mystery in the Age of the Church ..... 149 1. The Liturgy, Work of the Most Holy Trinity........................... 149 2. The Paschal Mystery in the Church’s Sacraments .................. 149 Chapter Two The Sacramental Celebration of the Paschal Mystery .......................................................................................... 157 1. Celebrating the Church’s Liturgy ............................................. 157 2. Liturgical Diversity and Unity of the Mystery ....................... 159 Section Two The Seven Sacraments of the Church .......... 161 Chapter One The Sacraments of Christian Initiation .................. 163 1. The Sacrament of Baptism ....................................................... 163 2. The Sacrament of Confirmation ............................................... 164 3. The Sacrament of the Eucharist ............................................... 165 Chapter Two The Sacraments of Healing .................................... 175 4. The Sacrament of Penance or Confession ............................... 175 5. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick ........................... 178 Chapter Three The Sacraments at the Service of the Community .................................................................................... 181 6. The Sacrament of Holy Orders ................................................ 181 7. The Sacrament of Matrimony .................................................. 183 Conclusion .................................................................................... 184 7 CARLOS MIGUEL BUELA PART THREE WHAT WE MUST DO ................. 185 Life in Christ ................................................................... 185 Section One Man’ s Vocation, life in the Spirit .................. 189 Chapter One The Dignity of the Human Person ......................... 191 1. Man, the Image of God ............................................................. 191 2. The Freedom of Man ................................................................ 191 3. The Morality of Human Acts ................................................... 192 4. The Morality of the Passions .................................................... 192 5. Moral Conscience ..................................................................... 193 Chapter Two The Human Community .......................................