Please take your assigned seat

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Please take your assigned seat

• Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live
  righteously,
• and he will give you everything you need. Mt
  633

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The Serenity Prayer

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot change courage to change the things I
  canand wisdom to know the difference.
• Living one day at a time Enjoying one moment at
  a time Accepting hardships as the pathway to
  peace Taking, as He did, this sinful worldas
  it is, not as I would have it Trusting that He
  will make all things rightif I surrender to His
  WillThat I may be reasonably happy in this
  life and supremely happy with HimForever in the
  next.Amen.

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What do we mean by Church?

• Brainstorm the ideas and images that come to mind
  when you think of Church

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The Church as the Body of Christ

• The Church is
• A sign of salvation in the world
• A sacrament
• Made up of people
• A structured institution
• For celebration and worship
• A teacher
• A sign of Christ among us

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The Catholic Church a Sacrament of Christ

• Read pages 170-172 of Christ and Culture
• Each of us is called to reveal Christ to the
  world
• The Church celebrates Christ through official
  worship

• Second Vatican Council
• 1962-65
• Major council of bishops and church leaders
• Led to the modernization of the Church
• E.g. the mass is no longer in Latin and the
  priest faces the congregation

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The Vatican

• The Centre of Roman Catholicism
• Located in Rome, Italy
• The Pope lives and works there
• All major decisions and encyclicals come out of
  the Vatican

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The Catholic Church as an institution

• The Catholic Church took shape slowly with the
  first disciples
• They brought the message of Gods kingdom to the
  communities around the Mediterranean Sea
• Constantine the Great declared that Christianity
  was to be the official religion of the Roman
  Empire after he became emperor (AD 312)

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Church Hierarchy

• The Church, like many institutions, is
  hierarchical
• The Church is organized in a specific way
  according to different levels of authority
• All of us are given the task of being priests,
  prophets, and rulers
• The diagram is not organized according to
  importance (one tier is not more important than
  the next)

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The Body of Christ

• As Church, we are called the Body of Christ
• Human body made up of many parts ? the Church is
  made up of many different parts
• Every part of the body/church plays a role and is
  dependent on the other parts
• Christ is the head of the Church
• Like the human head, he provides direction, unity
  and strength
• We, the Church, are the arms and legs because we
  do the work of Christ on earth

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Five actions of the Catholic Church

1. To proclaim Jesus Christ
2. To worship
3. To form a community
4. To give witness
5. To serve others

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Day of Pardon Learning through history

• Read pages 176-77 in your text
• Copy and answer the following questions on lined
  paper
• What does it mean to ask pardon?
• What does it mean for the Church to ask pardon?
• What four sins does the Church ask for pardon?
• How are we implicated in these sins of the
  Church?
• What does it mean to be reconciled?