Twelve questions chosen at random. A new selection appears at each visit.
Q140The Second Article: Jesus Christ
We mean that Jesus Christ is the eternal Word (Logos) of God the Father, the living Message whom the Father addresses to His creatures. In Him the Father speaks His ultimate word of love:…
Read the answer →Q319Holy Communion: The Eucharist
The Lord’s great and unique work of atonement took place upon the cross, which had four corners, like the altar before the Holy of Holies, on which the life-giving blood was poured: he “loves…
Read the answer →Q111The First Article: God
The book of Genesis is an account meant to convey essential and timeless truths about the origin of creation, the goodness of God’s work, and the root cause of evil and death. It is…
Read the answer →Q252The Ninth Article: The Church
The English word “Church” translates the Greek ekklesia, which carries the idea of God’s people being “called out” from the fallen world and gathered into the one flock of Christ (Rev 18:4; Joh 10:16;…
Read the answer →Q423The Fifth Petition: “Forgive Us Our Debts”
It is through the blood of Jesus Christ that God forgives the debt of sin, as the Scriptures testify: Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead… To him who loves us…
Read the answer →Q150The Third Article: The Incarnation
The Creed teaches that the Word and Son of God came forth from the eternal bosom and throne of the Father, represented symbolically by the Holy of Holies, into our world of space and…
Read the answer →Q041The Books of the Bible
The Books of Wisdom are Job, the Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs (in the ordering of the Septuagint, Job follows the Psalms). These books teach the fear of the LORD as…
Read the answer →Q138The Second Article: Jesus Christ
In the Holy Scriptures, there is a clear divide between Creator and creature, Savior and those in need of salvation, Judge and those who are judged. On which side of that divide does Jesus…
Read the answer →Q470The Sixth Beatitude
The Word of God compares the heart of man to an eye and speaks of mature Christians as having “the eyes of your heart enlightened” (Eph 1:18). As the clear eye can see the…
Read the answer →Q416The Fourth Petition: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
According to the teaching of our Lord, we should ask no more than bread for subsistence, the food and the material things that are truly necessary for life. Whatever goes beyond this, serving gratification…
Read the answer →Q546On the Fourth Commandment
The fasts of the Nativity and of the Dormition are preparatory exercises of abstinence, the better to honor the ensuing feasts of the Nativity of the Lord and of the falling asleep of the…
Read the answer →Q418The Fourth Petition: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
Since we are a unity of body, soul, and spirit, we may and should ask, for the soul also, that bread of subsistence without which the inner man perishes of hunger. The divine Scriptures…
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