God Is Love Chapter 21

The New Testament Letters  Prayerfully reading the ____________ with other people or alone can help us come to know and love God  The Church has named the ________ books of the Old Testament and the _________ books of the New Testament as the inspired word of God  While the ___________ are the heart of the New Testament, they were not the first books of the New Testament that were written  In addition to the four Gospels, the New Testament contains the Acts of the Apostles, the Book of Revelation, and __________ letters  The New Testament includes the ______ letters, or epistles, of Saint Paul the Apostle; ________ Catholic Letters and Letter to the __________

God Is Love  Three of the seven Catholic Letters are attributed to Saint _______ the Apostle  Saint John passes on the faith of the early Church in who Jesus, the __________ Son of God, revealed God to be  The early Church professed. “_________ is __________”  “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the _____________ of God” 1 John 3:1

Love of God and Others  In John’s First Letter we read that love is of ________ and God is of ____________ (1 John 4:8)  God gives us a special gift that gives us the ___________ to love him  ______________ virtues, such as faith, hope, and love enable us to live a life of _______________ and to share in the life and love of the __________ __________  The virtue of love also gives us the power to make God’s love the most ______________ thing in our lives  We know that God’s love is taking hold of us by the way we treat ___________  If we are to live as children of God, we must imitate this divine ____________