Spirit, Creed and Church – Sa Mạc Emmaus II

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Created on January 07, 2026 By

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Emmaus II - Part I: Spirit, Creed, and Church

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Lent is a special time in the Church devoted to:

prayer

almsgiving (giving to charity)

all of the above

fasting

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When we say "We believe in the Trinity," we are saying we believe that:

God has three faces and we can only see one at a time

there is one main God in heaven Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God's messengers

there is only one God who has been revealed to us in three different persons

there are three Gods: the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit

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When we say, "On the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and
is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty," we are stating our belief that:

because Jesus is human, he can only be in one place at a time. Now he can be found in heaven

Jesus is now in heaven. He can no longer help people the way he could when he was on earth

the resurrected Jesus, who is now with the Father in heaven, is the same Jesus who walked on earth

Jesus is no longer the same person he was before he died

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The Catholic Church is for everyone. The word, "catholic" means:

love of God

universal

body

community

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When we say we believe in "the holy Catholic Church," we are stating that:

the Catholic Church is always right

we are called to welcome all people to share the gift of God's love with them

anything that we can do to make other people become Catholic is good

the Catholic Church is the only church in which God can be found

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When we say that we believe "in the forgiveness of sins, "we are stating our belief that:

there is no sin so great that God cannot forgive it

all of the above

all of us need forgiveness

revenge is wrong

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The Catholic Church teaches us to ask saints to pray for us because:

God loves saints more than sinners, and is more likely to listen to them

saints are members of our community; their prayers affect our lives

we shouldn't bother God too often

saints understand us better than God because they were human

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Advent is a special time set aside by the Church to:

prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus

make a Christmas wish list

sacrifice and repent for our sins

cover our poinsettias so they are red at Christmas

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Pentecost is now celebrated:

50 days after Easter

50 days after Christmas

50 days before Christmas

50 days before Easter

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When we call God the "Father Almighty," we are stating our belief that:

God is strong and tough more often than he is gentle and caring

Fathers are more like God than mothers

God is male

God is the perfect parent who always loves us, but who lets us make our own choices

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When we say that we believe in "the resurrection of the body," we are stating our belief that:

our bodies will be exactly the same in heaven as they are on earth

what we do with our bodies affects our relationship with God

we should not give our bodies to science because we will need them in heaven

if you dig up the graves of holy people, they will be empty because their bodies are in heaven

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Sharing the "Good News" in order to raise awareness of God with others is an example of;

Spiritualism

Evangelization

Revelation

Mormonism

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Which of the following are the fruits of the Holy Spirit?

gentleness, generosity and guilt

intelligence, kindness and faithfulness

peace, joy and sorrow

patience, self-control and love

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God can be found:

all of the above

as a human being in the person of Jesus

in the Christian community

in the Scriptures and the teachings of the Church

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Believing in the one holy Catholic Church means believing that:

people of every age, social status, nation, race, colour, and way of life can be part of the same church

any church that isn't Roman Catholic isn't really a church after all

God prefers Catholics to all other people

Catholics are much holier than anyone else who believes in God

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Who belongs to the communion of saints?

all people who have died

all people who have seen God's love for them and responded by loving God and their neighbor

only people who have performed miracles

only those people canonized by the Church

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When we say, " I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord," we are stating our belief that:

we trust Jesus to take God's place if God gets too busy

Jesus is not quite as important as God, but he is still important

Jesus is one with God and can help us understand God in a way no other person can

all of the above

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"Catholic" means:

universal

strict

belonging to the Pope

the same thing as Christian

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The Holy Spirit:

is with us as a helper

is the Ghost of all Christians who have died

is an angel

is another name for Jesus

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"Amen" means:

"please accept my prayers"

"I believe, I accept, I trust"

"that's all there is"

"thank you"

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When we say "we believe in the communion of saints", we are stating our belief that:

holy communion is for people who behave like saints

all Christians, living and dead, are connected to each other in Christ

the New Orleans football team (the Saints) should go to Mass before they play

we believe that it is better to pray to saints for little things and only bother God with really important things

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The gifts of the Holy Spirit:

have to be earned

make it possible for us to see the effects of our actions

are all easy to see in every Christian

help us to understand and do what God wants us to do

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Christians believe that death:

is never sad

cannot destroy the bonds of love and Christian community

is the end of all human relationships

puts an end to our ability to pray

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When we say "I believe in God," we are stating our belief that:

there are many Gods but ours is the best

we believe in creation, not evolution

modern medicine is unnecessary. We trust God to care for us

we will not let anything become more important to us than God and what God wants

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When we say that we believe in "life everlasting," we are stating our belief that

through his resurrection, Jesus won out over death

all of the above

nothing that has been created by God should be treated as unimportant

death does not last forever

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When we say "from there he will come to judge the living and the dead," we are stating our
belief that:

Jesus knows things about us that no one else could know He will judge us fairly

Jesus will make us pay for our mistakes

Jesus will make the people who killed him suffer

Jesus will make sure that we eventually get even with all the people who hurt us

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When we say that Jesus was "conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary," we
are stating our belief that:

Jesus was both human and divine

Jesus did not have a father

Jesus was once a helpless baby

Jesus would not have been born if Mary had not agreed to be his mother

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God created human beings:

to exist for about 80 years and then be gone

for eternal life

knowing that they couldn't live forever

and then realized that without death the earth would get too crowded

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Which of the following is true?

all of us are called to be saints

to be a saint you must do something really extraordinary

saints are people who never sinned

only some people were created to be saints

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When we call God the "Creator of heaven and earth," we are stating our belief that:

science is a waste of time. God is the only answer

God created heaven and earth, but all the other planets were the result of the Big Bang

all creation is the work of God; therefore, all creation is good

God made the stars and planets from the stuff which has always been floating around in the universe

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When we say, "I believe in the Holy Spirit," we are stating the belief that:

the Holy Spirit is the ghost of Jesus

whenever people hear voices in their head it is really God

the Holy Spirit is God who dwells within us and gives the power to change our lives and the world

the Holy Spirit controls Christians so that they cannot do anything really wrong

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