Essential Catholicism 2

This course continues the study of the Creed in Part 1 (Section 2, Chapter 3) of the catechism. Our knowledge of God becomes more complete aswe consider the person and work of the Holy Spirit. We will discuss the Mystery of Christ’s life,death, and resurrection which allow each of us to enter into a relationshipwith God. We see the Virgin Mary as a reflection of God’s grace and herrole as Mother of the Church. This course will also discuss the natureand mission of the Church and the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven andHell. Finally, we discuss the Resurrection of the Body and EverlastingLife with the purpose of helping students to find an increase in the virtue ofhope.

Madonna in Sorrow

Location	Day	Time	Instructor	Dates
St. John Lalande	Monday	6:30pm-9:00pm	Dino Durando	October 10, 17, 24, 31
St. Patrick (St. Joseph)	Monday	6:30pm-9:00pm	Dr. Tim Brennan	October 10, 17, 24, 31
The Catholic Center Room 20	Tuesday	9:00am-11:30am	Dino Durando	October 4, 11, 18, 25
St. Andrew the Apostle	Tuesday	6:30pm-9:00pm	Rachel Schmidt	October 4, 11, 18, 25
The Catholic Center Room 21 (Young Adult Course)	Wednesday	7:00pm-9:00pm	Dr. Tim Brennan	October 12, 19, 26, November 2
The Catholic Center Cafeteria	Thursday	6:30pm-9:00pm	Dr. Tim Brennan	October 13, 20, 27, November 3

A. The essential difficulty that would result if Jesus Christ was not somehow fully man (in all ways except sin) is that this would mean that in the Incarnation, the Eternal Son would not have assumed our human nature. If he merely seemed to be human and was not, in fact, human then Jesus would not have redeemed human nature upon the cross. The Catechism in paragraph 461 tells us, “Taking up St. John's expression, ‘The Word became flesh’, the Church calls ‘Incarnation’ the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it.”

St. Gregory Nazianzus proves the integrity of the Sacred Humanity of Jesus by the argument, “That which was not assumed is not healed; but that which is united to God is saved.”