Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor participate in another man's sins; keep yourself pure.... First, prayer of the ordination starts by laying grounds for the rest of the prayer, "Lord God almighty, creator of all, deliverer, savior, redeemer and renewer of mankind, who by your infinite beneficence distribute visible and invisible gifts to your Holy Church." Here we are reminding ourselves that God is the one who gives gifts, and as we know from the scriptures, Ordination is both a visible and invisible gift from God. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Revelation as a whole is often viewed as a very hard book to understand. However, if taken in small sections and really studied closely, the meaning of the text can come through. The first step to understand the book is to understand when it was written and the occasion and purpose for which it wa...

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Faith Faith, according to Hebrews 11:1, is being sure of what we hope for and what we do not see. (New International Version Teen Study Bible) In modern times, faith has been weakened in meaning so that some people use it to mean self-confidence. But in the Bible, true faith is confidence in Go...

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Colossians 1:16 tells us "For by him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created through him and for him." ... In addition, they must have existed before the fall of man in Genesis 3, or where did Satan come from? ... This sounds like a contradiction: man lower-but eventually higher through redemption." ... They have directed men, as God wants man to act. ... Angels were viewed as mediators between God and man. ...

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The Council of Trent defines a sacrament as the symbol of something sacred, a visible form of invisible grace, having the power of sanctifying. ... Man is given the power of choice. ... The recipient of the one is God, who receives the sacrifice of His only-begotten Son; of the other, man, who receives the sacrament for his own good. ... In the Old Testament God said to Adam: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh." In the rite of marriage a man and woman declare their intentions in f...

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, a sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace. ... A real confession being made with Christ as the basis is thought to be in such way "that the whole man submits himself to Truth, in the judgment of his understanding, in the submission of his will and in the consecration of his whole power of love . . . To do this, poor-spirited man is only able when he has been confirmed by God's grace" ("Sacrament of Confirmation"). ...

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• Grade Level: High School