The Church’s Foundation
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The Church’s Foundation
Jesus Christ Establishes His Church
First Things
What is History?
History of persons, events, movements
History of ideas, thoughts, teachings
What is the Church? (Read page 11-13)
Human: Institution
Divine: Person
Human & Divine: Mystical Body
Marks: (read page 13)
When Does the Church Begin?
Adam
Communion / Relationship
Abraham
Chosen / Covenant
Moses
First official act of worship begins with Aaron
David
United
KEY: “The principal purpose to which the plan of the old
covenant was directed was to prepare for the coming of
Christ.” (Dei Verbum)
Beginnings
Jesus
Christ-ian
Pentecost (read p. 8)
Schism
Peter & Paul
Growth
See p. 10 map
70 AD
Separation
History of Jesus
When He was born
See Map p. 5
Shepherds & Magi set theme
Jews & Gentiles
Key Teaching
Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7)
Last Supper Discourse (Jn 13-17)
Key Event: Paschal Mystery
Passion, Death, Resurrection
Record of Life: Gospels (next slide)
Use p. 7
Complete Chart
Matthew
Who is he?
Audience
Symbol
Picture of
Jesus
Mark
Luke
John
Other Sources
Other sources for Jesus’ Life
Historical records (crucifixion record)
Josephus
Protoevangelium
Apocryphal accounts
Review
Let’s hope this works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG55ErfdaeY&list=P
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After the video: The importance of the history (for the
church)
Abraham
Jesus
Paul
Constantine
The Apostles
Part One
The Twelve
What is the background of these men?
Disciples (120+) – See Acts 1
Ethnicity & Religion
Profession
Education
How do they become Apostles
Apostle means… (see John 20)
Qualifications (see Acts 1)
Job Description (see Mt 28, Lk 24, Acts 1)
Peter & Paul
Peter: The Inside Man
Historical Details
Pentecost
Key Event = Read Acts 10.10-16
Paul: The Converted Enemy
Prayers of St Stephen
Damascus Road
Paul & Gentiles
Paul’s Travels
Four journeys
Map pp. 20-21
What areas does Paul cover? Where is his home base?
Where does his last trip end?
Dissention about Paul
Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15)
Three Mosaic
Dietary = idols
Commandments (sixth commandments)
Circumcision = baptism
Issues
Resolution
The Apostles
Part Two
After Pentecost
The life of each apostle
Their land
Their death
Persecution
Why by Jews?
Why by Romans?
Beliefs & Practices
Worship
Influence of Judaism
Mass
Daily Prayer (Morning, 3rd, 6th, 9th, Evening)
Importance of 70 AD
What Replaced Sacrifices?
In Judaism
In Christianity
Reception into the Church
Catechumenate
KEY: Most converts are adults
Role of Sponsors/Godparents
Vouch for candidate
Mentor candidate (Focus: Morality)
Make sure they understand potential persecution
Text: Our Father, Creed (Commandments)
Rite of Initiation
Easter Vigil
Three sacraments at once
Practices: The Didache
Two Ways (1.1)
Way of Life = Be Jesus (1.2-1.6)
Keep the Commandments (2.1-2.2)
Flee from evil (3.1-3.5)
Live like the saints (4.2; 4.7-4.11)
Way of Death (5.1-5.2)
Practices: The Didache
Sacraments & Sacramentals
Baptism (7.1-7.4)
Fasting & Prayer (8.1-8.3)
Eucharist (9.4-9.5; 10.2)
Hospitality (11.1-11.2; 12.1-12.5)
Lord’s Day (14.1-2)
Episcopacy / Hierarchy (15.1)
Eschatology – Watch! (16.1-16.8)
Mass
Where
Catacombs/Cemeteries
Homes
What is Agape?
What is Eucharist?
Belief about bread and wine
Transubstantiation
Words consecrate
Scriptures
Old Testament
Changed by Jews after 70 AD
New Testament Canon
How it was developed
The List (382 AD)
Early Christian Writers
Martyrs
Define “Martyr”
About
To
For
Earliest
Holy Innocents
St Stephen
St James
Apostles
Apologists
Define Apologist
St Justin Martyr
Investigate the charges against us with an open mind
Tertullian
Lawyer; wrote in Latin
Explain faith to Romans and Europeans
“See how they love each other”
St Hippolytus
Record of the Mass
Transforming Culture
Used philosophy; not anti-intellectual (Justin Martyr)
Trans-cultural; trans-ethnic; trans-economic (Diogenese)
“[T]he Christians are distinguished from other men neither
by country, nor language, nor the customs which they
observe…following the customs of the natives in respect to
clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct”
“They have a common table, but not a common bed. They
are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They
pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.
They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time
surpass the laws by their lives. They love all men and are
persecuted by all.”
“[W]hat the soul is to the body, that are Christians in the
world”
Transforming Culture
Willing to die for their faith
Focused on needs of others, especially the poor
Mercenary doctors
“See how they love one another.” (Tertullian)
“On the monthly day, if he likes, each puts in a small
donation; but only if it be his pleasure, and only if he be
able: for there is no compulsion; all is voluntary. These gifts
are . . . not spent on feasts, and drinking-bouts, and
eating-houses, but to support and bury poor people, to
supply the wants of boys and girls destitute of means and
parents, and of old persons confined now to the house;
such, too, as have suffered shipwreck; and if there happen
to be any in the mines or banished to the islands or shut up
in the prisons, for nothing but their fidelity to the cause of
God's Church, they become the nurslings of their
confession” (Tertullian)
Transforming Culture
Respected government while opposing governmental
policies
“We pray, too, for the emperors, for their ministers and for
all in authority, for the welfare of the world, for the
prevalence of peace, for the delay of the final
consummation.” (Tertullian)
“by inculcations of God’s precepts we confirm good habits”
(Tertullian)
". . . Christianity served as a revitalization movement
that arose in response to the misery, chaos, fear, and
brutality of life in the urban Greco-Roman world. . . .
Christianity revitalized life in Greco-Roman cities by
providing new norms and new kinds of social
relationships able to cope with many urgent problems.”
(Stark)