4 PILLARS OF CHRISTIANITY

1. CREED – represents faith. [What must we believe?]

2. SACRAMENTS – public worship. [What must we celebrate?]
3. COMMANDMENTS – moral. [What we must do?]
4. OUR FATHER – idea of personal prayer. [How should we pray?]

CREED “/latin/: credere” – to believe

- Has 12 articles.
- I believe in Christ His only Son, our Lord (2nd article is all about Jesus Christ)

Question: WHO IS JESUS CHRIST?

- He is the second person in the Blessed Trinity
- Father – creator  refers to the word of God  existed in eternity and unity
- Son – redeemer
- Holy spirit – sanctifies
--- ST. PAUL: PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 – Jesus Christ is only incarnated to serve
(servant – obedient)
2. THE INCARNATED SON OF GOD
BIRTH OF JESUS  SON OF GOD  REDEEMER OF HUMANKIND
The incarnation happen of the Birth of Jesus. Jesus Christ become man to redeem
humankind.

LUKE 1;35 – Idea of Holy Spirit

QUESTION: What is the meaning of Jesus and Christ?

INRI – Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeaorum (Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews)

Jesus in Hebrew  Yehosusa

Arabic  Yeshua
Greek  Iesus
Italian  Gesu
} IN MISSION TO SAVE
HUMAN KIND FROM
THE SIN
DISOBEDIENT
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According to Luke 1:31 – name Jesus

According to Matthew 1:21 – name Jesus to save humankind from disobedient or
original sin.
Question: WHY DO WE NEED TO CELEBRATE THE NAME OF JESUS?
 Because He is the saviour.
 IHS - /latin/ IESUS HOMINUN SALVATOR

ACTS 4:12 – “the name of Jesus Christ is all about the heart of Christianity”

BIBLICAL NAMES AND MEANINGS:

1. Lucifer – bearer of light (Isiah 14:12)
2. Michael – who is like God {Rev. 12:7}
3. Raphael – Medicine of God [Tobit 12:15]
4. Gabriel – Power of God (Luke 1:37)
5. Adam – Earth [Gen.2:7]
6. Eve – Mother of all living [Gen. 3:20]

Question: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CHRIST

Christ  Messiah
[Hebrew] – Mashiach
[Greek] – Khirstos
[Latin] – Christu
“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

ST. BARNABAS AND PAUL  Place of Antioch  Disciples who followed

Jesus that was called Christians [Acts 11:26]

Question: WHY DO POPES AND SOME RELIGIOUS CHANGE THEIR NAME?

1. You’re not owned by your family, but Christ.
2. Identification of Spirituality and Personality started when God called Simon to be
the shepherd of the universal church.
SIMON  PETER “the rock” [Matthew 16:18] “You are Peter
and upon this I will build my church”
3. Signifies new life dedicated to Christ.

JESUS PUBLIC MINISTRY

- Baptism at Jordan
 Jesus, at the age of 30, baptized by John at the River Jordan. John the Baptizer
used water /purity/ “You are my beloved Son, in You, I am well pleased listen
to him.”
 “PASCHAL MYSTERY” – Holy Week

PRESENCE OF GOD
- Mystery of Incarnation
- Paschal Mystery – Passion, death and resurrection.

*THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

40 days in dessert of Judea, Jesus was tempted.
“Do not play with fire” – Mother Teresa
1st temptation: [about bread] command that the stones be made of bread
2nd temptation: [about miracles] Cast yourself down, for it is written, that who had
given his angels change over you and in their hands they bear(?) you up.
3rd temptation: [about power] At these will I give you, if falling down you will adore
me.

*THE CALLING OF THE APOSTLES: (call – vocare, apostles – being sent)

- One of the first public deeds of Jesus was the calling of the Twelve Apostles who
would continue His ministry after His Ascension into Heaven.
1. St. Peter – Rome, crucifies upside down in 64A.D.
2. St. James the Great – Spain, beheaded in Jerusalem 9n 44 A.D.
3. St. Andrew – Russia, crucified upon an x – shaped cross in Greece in 70 A.D.
4. St. Philip – Syria, crucified in 54 A.D.
5. St. Bartholomew – Ethiopia, skinned alive and then beheaded in Caspia Sea.
6. St. Matthew – Hebrew, axed to death in 100 A.D.
7. St. Thomas – killed by a spear in Madras in 72 A.D.
8. St. James in less – preached in Egypt, stoned and clubbed to death in 63A.D.
9. St. Jude Thaddeus – preached in Edessa, crucified in Syria in 64 A.D.
10.St. Simon the Zealot – preached in Egypt, crucified in Persia 79.A.D.
11.St. Matthias – preached in Ethiopia, was stoned and be headed in Georgia in 80 A.D.
12.
**MIRACLES
1. Wedding at Cana – first miracle happened [water turns to wine (wine –
“joy”,”light”)]
2. Jesus healed the sick.
3. Jesus helped the adultreious woman

“Evil is still at work.” – 2 Thes. 2:7

2 Natures of Jesus Christ:

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1. True God One divine person
2. True Man

Proofs: 1. He is God  Eternal

Was never created
2. Humanity/Human Nature  Mortal
Conceived by Virgin Mary under the
power of Holy Spirit.
In the council of Ephesus, (in the year 431 A.D.) declared that 2 natures are in
one divine person
Hypostatic Union (refer to a mystical union/faith)

The Church suggested color coding for the union of 2 natures of Jesus Christ.
1. Blue – heaven (signifies the divine nature of Jesus)
2. Red – blood (signifies about the human nature)

PROOFS THAT JESUS IS THE DIVINE NATURE/PERSON.

1. The Beginning of Gospel of St. John
- “LOGOS”
Word of God
Identifies that the Logos is indeed God – since, Jesus Christ is the
word that turned into flesh. (John 1:1)
2. Jesus answered St. Philip
 during the last supper, the apostle Philip asked Jesus to show the Father.
 John 14:9-10 “whoever has seen me, seen the Father”
3. The Profession of St. Thomas
 “My Lord and my God” (John 20:29)

PROOFS OF HUMAN NATURE

1. Incarnation in Mary’s womb
 Latin: in & carnem literally means to enter into the flesh or to become man.
2. Death of Jesus
 death on the cross
 God cannot die, only humans do.
 the son of man
3. The teaching of St. Paul
 Jesus Christ being the MEDIATOR
 (1 Timothy 2:5) “There can no person here in this Earth that can enter
heaven without passing through Jesus.
Christmas is all about advent (which means joyful and waiting for Jesus Christ) .
Advent wreath  advent crown
Why circle? Because the church has no ending at all.

EKKLESIA – the people of God and all of them are sinners.

 4 events or virtues of Advent
1. Hope – “second coming or PAROUSIA”
– the coming of God.
2. Peace – the idea that during the baptism, when Jesus came, we felt peaceful.
3. Joy – kalipay na padulong na si Kristo.
4. Love – Give love.
The white candle symbolizes Jesus Christ, while the candles around it are the people waiting
for Christ.

Wrong teaching
CHRISTOLOGICAL HERESIES
Errors about concerning
the real identity of Jesus Christ
HUMAN DIVINE
Ebionism
 they try to establish that Jesus
Christ is only a human.
 denied the divinity of Jesus
Christ.
 it is illogical to say that Jesus
Christ is not a human when His parents are
Mary and Joseph that are both Humans.
 faded during the 2nd century,
became oblivion because of the lack of support
of both Jews and Christians.

Adoptionism
 founded by Theodotus of
Byzantium 2nd century
continued to adhere or follow
Ebionism
denied the divinity of Jesus Christ
they believed that Jesus is an
adopted son during the time of the Baptism at
Jordan.
was answered by Pope Victor I of
Synod of Ratinson (Synod of Ratinson is a
council, a gathering of leaders of churches
trying to answer the heresy of adoptionism)

Docetism
Greek: Dokein – “to seem”
denied that Jesus Christ is
human.
 Jesus seem to be human
but He is God.
phantasm
birth suffering death
according to extremists, it
is only apparent
answered by St. Polycarp
(or Golden Mouth/Gold Fish)
Arianism
Heresy of a priest named Arius
of Alexandria.
does not believe the divinity of
Jesus.
”not of the same nature, but
similar nature with the Father.”
denied trinity.
DOGMA – teaching of the
church that cannot be changed. While
DOCTRIN can be changed. (Divine
motherhood of Mary – the council of Nicea
that condemned Arianism 325 A.D. –
Constantinople 381 A.D.
5. Nestorianism
 Nestorius Bishop of Constantinople (429 A.D.)
believed that there are 2 natures of Jesus Christ but is not united and is
separated.
objective to the use of the term “theotokos” – mother of God.
 “Christokos” – Mother of Christ, therefore, Mama Mary must be called
as Christokos instead of Theotokos because she is the mother of Christ.