Catechism
Here is the most original form of the Catholic Catechism You will find those burning questions that have always plagued your mind.
What is meant by Sacrament?By the word Sacrament is meant a sensible and efficacious sign of grace to sanctify our souls. The actual part of a sacrament takes part in the supernatural or is unseen. To mark this unseen event that the senses cannot perceive a human form or physical or corporal form is needed.
The Seven Sacraments
Baptism
Confirmation
Holy Communion
Penance
Extreme Unction
Holy orders
Matrimony
Sins against the Holy Ghost Despairing of being saved. -
One must never be discouraged about being saved, because God's mercy is far greater than sin. (How to save your soul)
Presuming on being saved without merit.
(A hierocratic individual with intense pride deems himself saved although he has no merit, says no prayers, does not follow the precepts of the Catholic Church, nor does he confess his sins)
Opposing the know truth.
(heresy, Schismatism) (After ones fault is pointed out the schismatic must return to the truth if he does not he will sin exceeding against the truth)
Envying anothers graces.
(each one has special graces that must not be envied by another, there are thousands of types of graces)Obstinately remaining in sin.
( Shunning of repeated attempts by the Holy Spirit to steer us away from sin)Final Impenitence.
(Obstinacy at the hour of death)Theological Values Faith
Hope
Charity
What is Faith?
Faith is a supernatural virtue, which God infuses into our souls, and by which, relying on the authority of God Himself, we believe everything which He has revealed and which through his church he proposes for our belief. The millions of miracles performed by the Catholic Church down the ages serve to strengthen this faith.
What is Hope?Hope is a supernatural virtue, infused by God into the soul, by which we desire and expect that eternal life that God promised to his servants, as well as the means necessary to attain it.
What is Charity?
Charity is a supernatural virtue, infused into our soul by God, by which we love God above all for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. (Loving our neighbor for his sake is called humanism and is opposed to charity)
The Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Wisdom
Understanding
Counsel
Fortitude
Knowledge
Piety
Fear of the Lord
Capital Sins
These sins are called "Capital" because they are the starting point for all other sins.
Pride (This is the prime sin and the cause of all men who fall and who have entered Hell. Fought with Humility)
Covetousness (
this breaks the 10th Commandment, being content with one's own)Lust
(Sexual hankering, lewd thoughts and sexual dreaming, porn - fought with self-mortification)Anger
(Excessive anger and execration. Anger is not wrong when the name of God is blasphemed - Fought with Humility)Gluttony
(not only overeating but eating for pleasure rather than nourishment -Fought with fasting)Envy
(Hate directed towards a person who has, what you do not)Sloth
(wishy-washy attitude towards service of God and not praying at fixed times, fought with discipline and military regimen)The Cardinal Virtues Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
The 4 Last EndsDeath (whatever one does on earth after 70 or 80 years he has to go, today alive, tomorrow dead)
Judgment
(One has to give an account for every second and every deed good or bad and reap it benefits thereof)Heaven
(The eternal reward when the good works far surpass the bad and the souls is saved)Hell
(The eternal reward when the bad works far surpass the good works)
Precepts of the Church.
I. To hear mass on all Sundays and Holy days of Obligation
II. To fast during Lent, on Ember Days and appointed vigils, and not to eat meat on forbidden days.
III. To confess our sins once a year and to receive Holy Communion once a year in his own parish.
IV. To contribute to the Church according to local custom.
V. Not to solemnize marriage at forbidden times, that is, from the first Sunday in advent until the Epiphany, and from the first day of Lent until Low Sunday.