Read the Bible passages in the handout below. For each passage, what is the relationship between the author and the events he describes? Write out on a piece of loose leaf.
New Testament (Period 8)
Read pg. 36-39 in your textbook
Morality (Period 7)
Read the three saints' lives. Choose one saint and describe how his life required the virtues of faith, hope and love. Write out on a piece of loose leaf to be turned in.
Morality (Period 1 and 3)
Review the cardinal virtues on pg. 17. For each of the four cardinal virtues, describe a moral scenario in which that particular virtue would come into play. Write out on a piece of loose leaf to be handed in tomorrow.
New Testament Handout
Authors of the
Gospels
Assignment: Read the following Bible passages. For each of
the passages, identify what relationship the author claims to the events he is
describing. What relationship does he have to the events of Christ’s life?
Luke 1:1-4
1 Since many have undertaken to
compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just
as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word
have handed them down to us, 3 I too have decided,
after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly
sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so
that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received.
John 20:1-10, 30-31
1 On the first day of the
week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was
still dark,[c] and saw the stone removed from the
tomb. 2 So she ran[d] and went to Simon Peter and to the
other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from
the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” 3 [e]So Peter and the other disciple went out and
came to the tomb. 4 They both ran, but the other
disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; 5 he
bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. 6 When
Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths[f] there, 7 and
the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up
in a separate place. 8 Then the other disciple also
went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and
believed. 9 [g]For they did not yet understand the
scripture that he had to rise from the dead. 10 Then
the disciples returned home…
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in
the presence of [his] disciples that are not written in this book. 31 But
these are written that you may [come to] believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the
Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.
John 21:20-25
20 Peter turned and saw the disciple
following whom Jesus loved, the one who had also reclined upon his chest during
the supper and had said, “Master, who is the one who will betray you?” 21 When
Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” 22 Jesus
said to him, “What if I want him to remain until I come?[a] What concern is it of yours? You
follow me.” 23 [b]So the word spread among the brothers that
that disciple would not die. But Jesus had not told him that he would not die,
just “What if I want him to remain until I come? [What concern is it of yours?]”
24 It is this disciple who testifies
to these things and has written them,[c] and we know that his testimony is
true. 25 There are also many other things that
Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the
whole world would contain the books that would be written.
Galatians 1:11- 2:10
11 Now I want you to know, brothers,
that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. 12 For
I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came
through a revelation of Jesus Christ.[j]
13 [k]For you heard of my former way of life in
Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy
it, 14 and progressed in Judaism beyond many of my
contemporaries among my race, since I was even more a zealot for my ancestral
traditions. 15 But when [God], who from my mother’s
womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased 16 to
reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did
not immediately consult flesh and blood,[l] 17 nor did I go
up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia[m] and then returned to Damascus.
18 [n]Then after three years[o] I went up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas and remained
with him for fifteen days. 19 But I did not see any
other of the apostles, only James the brother of the Lord.[p] 20 (As to what
I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.) 21 Then
I went into the regions of Syria
and Cilicia . 22 And
I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea
that are in Christ; 23 they only kept hearing that
“the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried
to destroy.” 24 So they glorified God because of
me.
Chapter 2
q] 1 Then after
fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem
with Barnabas,[r] taking Titus along also. 2 I
went up in accord with a revelation,[s] and I presented to them the gospel
that I preach to the Gentiles—but privately to those of repute—so that I might
not be running, or have run, in vain. 3 Moreover,
not even[t] Titus, who was with me, although he
was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised, 4 but
because of the false brothers[u] secretly brought in, who slipped in to
spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might enslave
us— 5 to them we did not submit even for a moment,
so that the truth of the gospel[v] might remain intact for you. 6 But
from those who were reputed to be important (what they once were makes no
difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those of repute made me add
nothing. 7 [w]On the contrary, when they saw that I had
been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter to the
circumcised, 8 for the one who worked in Peter for
an apostolate to the circumcised worked also in me for the Gentiles, 9 and
when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me, James and Cephas and John,[x] who were reputed to be pillars, gave
me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership, that we should go to the
Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 Only, we
were to be mindful of the poor,[y] which is the very thing I was eager to
do.
2 Peter 1:1-2, 16-21
1 [a]Symeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus
Christ, to those who have received a faith of equal value to ours through the
righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ: 2 may
grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge[b] of God and of Jesus our Lord…
16 We did not follow cleverly devised
myths when we made known to you the power and coming[i] of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had
been eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he
received honor and glory from God the Father[j] when that unique declaration came to
him from the majestic glory, “This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well
pleased.” 18 We[k] ourselves heard this voice come from
heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain.19 Moreover,
we possess the prophetic message that is altogether reliable. You will do well
to be attentive to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns
and the morning star rises in your hearts. 20 [l]Know this first of all, that there is no
prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, 21 for
no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the
holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.
Revelation 1:1-3, 9-20
1 The revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave to him, to show his servants what must happen soon. He made it
known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who
gives witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ by
reporting what he saw. 3 Blessed is the one[b] who reads aloud and blessed are those
who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the
appointed time is near….
g] 9 I, John, your
brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we
have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos[h] because I proclaimed God’s word and
gave testimony to Jesus. 10 I was caught up in
spirit on the Lord’s day[i] and heard behind me a voice as loud as
a trumpet, 11 which said, “Write on a scroll[j] what you see and send it to the seven
churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and
Laodicea.” 12 [k]Then I turned to see whose voice it was that
spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands13 and
in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man,[l] wearing an ankle-length robe, with a
gold sash around his chest. 14 The hair of his head
was as white as white wool or as snow,[m] and his eyes were like a fiery
flame. 15 His feet were like polished brass refined
in a furnace,[n] and his voice was like the sound of
rushing water. 16 In his right hand he held seven
stars.[o] A sharp two-edged sword came out of
his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest.
17 When I caught sight of him, I fell
down at his feet as though dead.[p] He touched me with his right hand and
said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, 18 the
one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the
keys to death and the netherworld.[q] 19 Write down,
therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen
afterwards.[r] 20 This is the
secret meaning[s] of the seven stars you saw in my right
hand, and of the seven gold lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Morality Handout
The Theological
Virtues and the Saints
Assignment:
Read the following short biographies of three canonized saints. (You will be responsible for knowing all three.) Once you have read the biographies, choose one saint and explain how faith, hope and love were necessary virtues in the lives they lived. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper to be turned in.
Read the following short biographies of three canonized saints. (You will be responsible for knowing all three.) Once you have read the biographies, choose one saint and explain how faith, hope and love were necessary virtues in the lives they lived. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper to be turned in.
St. Peter Claver
The son of a Catalonian farmer,
was born at Verdu, in 1581; he died 8 September, 1654. He obtained his first
degrees at the University of
Barcelona. At the age of twenty he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona. While he was
studying philosophy at Majorca in
1605, Alphonsus Rodriguez, the saintly door-keeper of
the college, learned from God the future
mission of his young associate, and thenceforth never ceased exhorting him to
set out to evangelize the Spanish possessions in America . Peter obeyed,
and in 1610 landed at Cartagena,
where for forty-four years he was the Apostle of the negro slaves. Early
in the seventeenth century the masters of Central and South
America afforded the spectacle of one of
those social crimes which are entered upon so lightly. They needed
labourers to cultivate the soil which they had conquered and to exploit the
gold mines. The natives being physically incapable of enduring the
labours of the mines, it was determined to replace them with negroes brought
from Africa.
The coasts of Guinea ,
the Congo , and Angola became the
market for slave dealers, to whom native petty kings sold their
subjects and their prisoners.
By its position in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena became
the chief slave-mart of the New World. A
thousand slaves landed there each month. They were bought for two,
and sold for 200 écus. Though half the cargo might die, the trade
remained profitable. Neither the repeated censures of the pope, nor those of Catholic moralists could
prevail against this cupidity. The missionaries could not
suppress slavery, but only alleviate it, and no one worked more heroically
than Peter Claver.
Trained in the school of Père Alfonso de Sandoval , a wonderful
missionary, Peter declared himself "the slave of the
negroes forever", and thenceforth his life was one that confounds
egotism by its superhuman charity. Although timid and lacking in
self-confidence, he became a daring and ingenious organizer. Every month when
the arrival of the negroes was
signalled, Claver went out to meet them on the pilot's boat, carrying food and
delicacies. The negroes,
cooped up in the hold, arrived crazed and brutalized by
suffering and fear. Claver went to each, cared for him, and showed him
kindness, and made him understand that henceforth he was his defender and
father. He thus won their good will. To instruct so many speaking
different dialects, Claver assembled at Cartagena a group of
interpreters of various nationalities, of whom he made catechists. While
the slaves were penned up at Cartagena waiting to
be purchased and dispersed, Claver instructed and baptized them in
the Faith.
On Sundays during Lent he assembled
them, inquired concerning their needs, and defended them against their
oppressors. This work caused Claver severe trials, and
the slave merchants were not his only enemies.
The Apostle was accused of indiscreet zeal, and of having
profaned the Sacraments by giving them to creatures who scarcely
possessed a soul.
Fashionable women of
Cartagena refused to
enter the churches where Father Claver assembled his negroes.
The saint's superiors were often influenced by the many criticisms which
reached them. Nevertheless, Claver continued his heroic career, accepting all
humiliations and adding rigorous penances to his works of charity. Lacking the
support of men, the strength of God was given him. He
became the prophet and miracle worker of New Granada, the oracle of Cartagena, and all were
convinced that often God would
not have spared the city save for him. During his life he baptized and
instructed in the Faith more than 300,000 negroes. He was beatified 16 July,
1850, by Pius IX,
and canonized 15
January, 1888, by Leo XIII.
His feast is
celebrated on the ninth of September. On 7 July, 1896, he was proclaimed the
special patron of all the Catholic missions
among the negroes. Alphonsus Rodriguez was canonized on the same
day as Peter Claver.
Br. Andre Bessette
Alfred Bessette was born Aug. 9,
1845…[In 1870], Alfred presented himself as a candidate at the novitiate of the
Congregation of Holy Cross in Montreal .
Because of his uncertain health, his superiors had doubts concerning his
religious vocation. Finally, he was accepted and given the name Brother Andre.
He was made porter at Notre Dame college and was known to say: "When I
entered the community, my superiors showed me the door, and I remained there 40
years without leaving." He also washed floors and windows, cleaned lamps,
brought in firewood, and worked as messenger.
Soon Brother Andre started to
welcome the sick and broken-hearted. He invited them to pray to St. Joseph to obtain
favors. Before long, many people reported their prayers were being answered.
For 25 years, in his small office or in the tramway station across the street
from the college, Brother Andre spent six to eight hours a day receiving
visitors. He built a chapel with the help of friends and with the money he
earned giving haircuts to the students of the college. He was certain that St. Joseph wanted a place
on the mountain and he spent his whole life preparing a beautiful shrine in the
saint's honor.
In the meantime, there was talk of healings which doctors
could not explain. Brother Andre began visiting the sick and earned the
reputation of miracle-worker. But he strongly protested: "I am nothing ...
only a tool in the hands of Providence , a lowly
instrument at the service of St.
Joseph ." He went even further: "People are
silly to think that I can perform miracles. It is God and St. Joseph who can heal you, not I."
His aloofness in the presence of
strangers contrasted sharply with the carefree side he showed friends. He loved
to tease. He would often say: "You must not be sad; it is good to laugh a
little." Brother Andre was always cheerful and tried to communicate his
happiness to others, especially to the poor and unfortunate. He used his sense
of humor to share his joy and to slip some good advice into a conversation, or
to change the subject when a verbal attack on someone was brewing.
He was a man of determination who
refused to compromise his principles. His great respect for others was largely
responsible for the respect others had for him. He was a very sensitive man. At
times, he could be seen crying with the sick or being moved to tears after
hearing a particularly sad story from one of his visitors.
During all these years, an immense
project was being realized and larger crowds were swarming to the Oratory. The
first small chapel had been erected in 1904, but it soon became too small to
receive all the people who were coming to the mountain. The chapel was extended
in 1908 and again in 1910. Still, a larger church was needed.
In 1917, a new crypt church, able
to hold a thousand persons, was inaugurated. This, however, was only the
starting point of an even more important endeavor. During his whole life,
Brother Andre devoted his efforts to building the Oratory, which was to become
the world's greatest sanctuary dedicated to St. Joseph .
And yet, Brother Andre never referred
to "my project, my work". On the contrary, he said: "God chose
the most ignorant one. If there was anyone more ignorant than I am, God would
have chosen him instead of me."
When crowds came to the Oratory for
important celebrations, Brother Andre would go into seclusion. He would hide
behind the choir and pray quietly.
The economic crisis of 1931 forced
the construction of the basilica to come to a standstill. In 1936, the
authorities of the Congregation of Holy Cross called a special meeting to decide
if the project should continue, especially since snow and frost threatened to
damage the roofless structure. The provincial summoned Brother Andre for his
opinion. The aging brother had only a few words for the assembly: "This is
not my work, it is the work of St.
Joseph . Put one of his statues in the middle of the
building. If he wants a roof over his head, he'll take care of it."
Two months later, the congregation
had the necessary funds to continue working on the construction.
St. Isaac Jogues
French missionary,
born at Orléans,
France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at Ossernenon, in the
present State of New
York, 18 October, 1646. He was the first Catholic priest who ever came
to Manhattan Island
(New York). He entered
the Society of
Jesus in 1624 and, after having been professor
of literature at Rouen, was sent as a
missionary toCanada in
1636. He came out with Montmagny,
the immediate successor of Champlain. From Quebec he went to the
regions around the great lakes where the illustrious Father de Brébeuf and
others were labouring. There he spent six years in constant danger. Though a
daring missionary, his character was of the most
practical nature, his purpose always being to fix his people in permanent
habitations. He was with Garnier among
the Petuns,
and he and Raymbault penetrated
as far as Sault Ste
Marie, and "were the first missionaries", says
Bancroft (VII, 790, London, 1853), "to preach the gospel a
thousand miles in the interior, five years before John Eliot
addressed the Indians six
miles from Boston Harbour".
There is little doubt that
they were not only the first apostles but also the first white men to
reach this outlet of Lake Superior . No
documentary proof is
adduced by the best-known historians that Nicholet, the discoverer of
Lake Michigan , ever visited the Sault.
Jogues proposed not only to convert the Indians of Lake
Superior, but the Sioux who
lived at the head waters of the Mississippi .
His plan was thwarted by his
capture near Three Rivers returning
from Quebec.
He was taken prisoner on
3 August, 1642, and after being cruelly tortured was carried to
the Indian village of Ossernenon, now Auriesville, on the
Mohawk, about forty miles above the present city of Albany. There he remained
for thirteen months in slavery,
suffering apparently beyond the power of natural endurance. The Dutch Calvinists at Fort
Orange (Albany)
made constant efforts to free him, and at last, when he was about to be burnt
to death, induced him to take refuge in a sailing vessel which carried him
to New Amsterdam (New York). His description
of the colony as it was at that time has since been incorporated in
the Documentary History of the State. From New York he was sent;
in mid-winter, across the ocean on a lugger of only fifty tons burden
and after a voyage of two months, landed Christmas morning,
1643, on the coast of Brittany ,
in a state of absolute destitution. Thence he found his way to the
nearest college of the Society. He was received
with great honour at
the court of the Queen Regent, the mother of Louis XIV, and was allowed
by Pope Urban
VII the very exceptional privilege of
celebrating Mass,
which the mutilated condition of his hands had
made canonically impossible; several of his fingers having been eaten
or burned off. He was called amartyr of Christ by the pontiff. No similar
concession, up to that, is known to have been granted.
In early spring of 1644 he returned
to Canada,
and in 1646 was sent to negotiate peace with the Iroquois. He followed the
same route over which he had been carried as a captive. It was on this
occasion that he gave the name of Lake of the Blessed Sacrament to
the body of water called by the Indians Horicon, now
known as Lake George . He reached Ossernenon on 5 June,
after a three weeks' journey from the St. Lawrence. He was well
received by his former captors and the treaty of peace was made. He started
for Quebec on
16 June and arrived there 3 July. He immediately asked to be sent back to the Iroquois as a
missionary, but only after much hesitation his superiors acceded to his
request. On 27 September he began his third and last journey to the Mohawk. In
the interim sickness had broken out in the tribe and a blight had fallen on the
crops. This double calamity was ascribed to Jogues whom the Indians always
regarded as a sorcerer. They were determined to
wreak vengence on him for the spell he had cast on the place, and
warriors were sent out to capture him. The news of this change of sentiment
spread rapidly, and though fully aware of the danger Jogues continued on his
way to Ossernenon,
though all the Hurons and
others who were with him fled except Lalande. The Iroquois met him near
Lake George , stripped him
naked, slashed him with their knives, beat him and then led him to
the village. On 18 October, 1646, when entering a cabin he was struck with a
tomahawk and afterwards decapitated. The head was fixed on the Palisades and the body thrown into the Mohawk.
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