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Day 9:
Takeaways-
- Jesus pardoned sins, leading the Sanhedrin to believe he was a blasphemer
- Christ died for our sins
- We were saved because of God’s love
- Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation
- Jesus fulfilled the mission of his Father by his death on the cross, freeing the world from the slavery of sin

Day 8:
Takeaways-
- Mary, the virgin, is the mother of God
- Mary is pure from sin
- Jesus’ obedience to his parents shows holiness in daily life/family
- The temptation in the desert shows how Jesus triumphs over satan
- The Kingdom of Heaven was inaugurated on Earth by Christ, keys given to Peter
- Jesus went to Jerusalem voluntarily, knowing death was imminent

Day 7 Cont.
Takeaways-
- Jesus is God’s word incarnate
- Jesus is true God and true man, for that reason he is the only mediator between God and man
- Jesus posses a divine and human nature that co-operate and are united into God’s son
- Christ has human intellect and will as well as divine
- The incarnation is the mystery of the wonderful union between divine and human nature in the one person of the word-Jesus

Day 7:
Takeaways-
- The name Jesus means God Saves (the child born of Mary will save people from their sins)
- The title “Christ” means anointed one (God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit)
- To be a Christian, one must believe that Jesus is the Son of God
- The title”Lord” indicates divine sovereignty, to confess or invoke Jesus as Lord is to believe in his divinity

Day 6 Cont.
Takeaways-
- it was through the Devils envy that death entered the world
- Satan and other demons are fallen angels that have refused to serve God
- By his sin, Adam the first man, lost God’s original holiness and justice he was given for all
men
- As a result of the original sin human nature is weekend
- The world has fallen into the slavery if sin but is set free by Christ’s sacrifice

Day 6:
Takeaways-
- God created the Earth alone and allows evil in it because he respects free will
- Angels is the name of their office not nature, for angels are spirits in nature and messengers of God
-God willed the diversity of his creatures
- The soul is created by God
- soul is unified with the body until death
- God created man and woman to be partners for each other

Day 5:
Takeaways-
- Holy Spirit come from the Father and through the Son (filoque)
- The Trinity is One, God in different forms
- “Everyone who follows Christ does so because the Father draws him in and the Holy Spirit moves him.”
- Nothing is impossible through God
- God created all things WILLINGLY to share his love

Day 4:
Takeaways-
- To say the Apostles and Nicene Creed is to pledge ourselves to God and his Church, reaffirming the commitment made at baptism.
- There is one God
- God revealed his name to Moses as ‘Yhwh’ (I Am Who I Am), but in the Bible Yhwh is replaced by the word “Lord”.
- God is truthful and God has an abundance of love.

Day 3:
Takeaways-
- Faith is always above reason
- We as Catholics must have faith in God: Father,
Son, Holy Spirit
- We recognize the strong faith of Mary and Abraham and strive to be like them
- Faith is necessary for salvation, but God gave us free will to choose whether to be faithful or not