Theology Thursdays: What the Catholic Church ACTUALLY teaches

A brief summary of Catholic Teaching: Things which ALL Catholics should know about their faith and that all nonCatholics might want to know about the Catholic Faith.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD

1. I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange Gods before Me.
2. Thou Shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shall not kill.
6. Thou shall not commit adultery
7. Thou shall not steal.
8. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife.
10. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s house.

THE SIX PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH

1. To hear Mass on Sunday and holy days of obligation
2. To fast and abstain on the days commanded
3. To confess our sins at least once a year
4. To receive the Blessed Eucharist at Easter or within the time appointed
5. To contribute to the support of our Pastors
6. Not to solemnize marriages at the forbidden times; nor to marry persons within the forbidden degrees of kindred, or otherwise prohibited by the church. nor secretly.

THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS

1. Baptism
2. Holy Eucharist
3. Confirmation
4. Penance
5. Extreme Unction (Last Rites)
6. Holy Orders
7. Matrimony

THE THREE THEOLGICAL VIRTUES

1. Faith
2. Hope
3. Charity

THE FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES

1. Prudence
2. Justice
3. Fortitude
4. Temperance

THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. Wisdom
2. Understanding
3. Counsel
4. Fortitude
5. Knowledge
6. Piety
7. Fear of the Lord

THE TWELVE FRUITS OF THE HOLY GHOST

1. Charity
2. Joy
3. Peace
4. Patience
5. Kindness
6. Goodness
7. Faithfulness
8. Gentleness
9. Self-control
10. Chasity
11. Modesty
12. Purity of Heart

THE SPIRITUAL WORKS OF MERCY

1. To give counsel to the doubtful
2. To instruct the ignorant
3. To admonish sinners
4. To comfort the afflicted
5. To forgive offenses
6. To bear patiently the troublesome
7. To pray for the living and the dead

THE CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY

1. To feed the hungry
2. T o give drink to the thirsty
3. To clothe the naked
4. To shelter the needy
5. To visit the sick
6. To visit the imprisoned
7. To bury the dead

THE EIGHT BEATITUDES

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
2. Blessed are the meek; for they shall possess the land
3. Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted
4. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice; for they shall be filled
5. Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy
6. Blessed are the clean of heart; for they shall see God
7. Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God
8. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

SEVEN DEADLY SIN

1. Pride
2. Covetousness
3. Lust
4. Anger
5. Gluttony
6. Envy
7. Sloth

CONTRARY VIRTUES

1. Humility
2. Liberality
3. Chasity
4. Meekness
5. Temperance
6. Brotherly Love
7. Diligence

SINS AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST

1. Presumption upon God’s Mercy
2. Despair
3. Impugning the known truth
4. Envy of another’s spiritual good
5. Obstinacy in sin
6. Final impenitence

SINS CRYING TO HEAVEN FOR VENGEANCE

1. Willful murder
2. The sin of Sodom
3. Oppression of the poor
4. Defrauding laborers of their wages

NINE WAYS OF BEING ACCESSORY TO ANOTHER’S SIN

1. By counsel
2. By command
3. By consent
4. By provocation
5. By praise or flattery
6. By concealment
7. By partaking
8. By silence
9. By defense of the ill done

THREE EMINENTY GOOD WORKS

1. Alms-deeds
2. Works of Mercy
3. Prayer and Fasting

THREE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS

1. Voluntary Poverty
2. Chastity
3. Obedience

SUBJECTS FOR DAILY MEDITATION

1. God to glorify
2. Jesus to imitate
3. The Angels and Saints to invoke
4. A soul to save
5. A body to mortify
6. Sins to expiate
7. Virtues to acquire
8. Hell to avoid
9. Heaven to gain
10. Eternity to prepare for
11. Time to profit by
12. Neighbors to edify
13. The world to despise
14. Devils to combat
15. Passions to subdue
16. Death perhaps to suffer
17. And Judgment to undergo

Among the truths, which faith teaches us…the existence of one God; the Mystery of the Redemption of mankind by the Incarnation and death of Jesus Christ, and the future state of reward and punishment.
THESE ARE THINGS WHICH EVERY CATHOLIC IS ALSO BOUND TO KNOW…

• The three most ordinary Catholic Prayers…

1. Lord’s Prayer
2. Hail Mary
3. Apostles Creed

• The commandments of God
• The precepts of the church
• The Doctrine of the Sacraments …especially these three

1. Baptism
2. Penance
3. Holy Eucharist
4. The duties and obligations of one’s state of life

It is a mortal sin for a Catholic to be ignorant of these things, “IF” it be through his won willfulness “OR” neglect.