Tuesday, April 03, 2007

From the Penny Catechism

1. Who made you? God made me.

2. Why did God make you? God made me to know Him, love Him and serve Him in this world, and be happy with Him forever in the next.

3. To whose image and likeness did God make you?
God made me to his own image and likeness.

4. Is this likeness to God in your body, or in your soul?
This likeness to God is chiefly in my soul.

5. How is your soul like to God? My soul is like to God
because it is a spirit, and is immortal.

6. What do you mean when you say that your soul is immortal?
When I say my soul is immortal, I mean that my soul can never die.

7. Of which must you take most care, of your body or of your soul?
I must take most care of my soul; for Christ has said, 'What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?' St. Matthew 16:268. What must you do to save your soul? To save my soul I must worship God by Faith, Hope and Charity; that is, I must believe in him, I must hope in him, and I must love him with my whole heart.

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