Grade 7/8 Our Life in the Church Religion Topics Ms. Purves

Part 1 The Church 1. Christ’s Abiding Presence 2.The Birth of the Church 3.The Nature of the Church 4.The Teaching Church 5.Authority in the Church – Teaching/Governing 6.The Visible Hierarchical Church 7.The Church Sanctifying – Sacraments of Memebership

Part 1 The Church (con’t) 8.The Church Sanctifying – Worship 9.Mary – Mother of the Church 10. The Communion of Saints 11. Saints of Our History – The First Thousand Years 12. Saints in Our History – The Second Thousand Years 13. The Separated Brethren

Part 2 The Christian in the World 14. The Universal Call to Holiness 15. The Life of Virtue 16. The Works of Mercy and Happiness 17. Vocations- The Religious Life and Priesthood 18. The Lay Apostolate 19. Marriage and the Family 20.The Christian in the World 21. Law and Conscience 22. The Church and the Social Order

Part 3 The Means to Fulfill Our Call to Holiness 23. Prayer 24. The Sacramental Life

Part 4 The End of Christian Life 25. Death and the Particular Judgement 26. The Trumpet Shall Sound – the End of the World