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PIUS X CATECHETICAL INSTITUTE

Mati City, Davao Oriental

CERTIFICATE IN CATHOLIC STUDIES

Lesson Prospectus

This Lesson Prospectus is a complete list of lessons based on three Traditional Catechetical Pillars: Creed,
Commandments, Liturgy, Sacraments and Prayers. This lesson prospectus can be used by an enrolled student at the
institute to monitor the numbers of sessions/classes he/she attended for a year.

CREED

____ Lesson 1: Divine Revelation: Scripture, Tradition and Church Magisterium

____ Lesson 2: Dogma of the Blessed Trinity
____ Lesson 3: Creation, Revelation and Science
____ Lesson 4: Angels, Devils and Temptation
____ Lesson 5: Man, Our First Parents and Evolution
____ Lesson 6: Sin: Original, Actual, Mortal and Venial
____ Lesson 7: Occasions and Sources of Sin and the Seven Capital Sins
____ Lesson 8: The Promise of the Redeemer
____ Lesson 9: Jesus Christ: The God-Man, Incarnation and Nativity
____ Lesson 10: Jesus Christ: His Hidden and Public Life
____ Lesson 11: Jesus Christ: His Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension
____ Lesson 12: The Holy Ghost
____ Lesson 13: Sanctifying Grace and Actual Grace
____ Lesson 14: Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost
____ Lesson 15: The Theological and Moral Virtues
____ Lesson 16: The Eight Beatitudes
____ Lesson 17: Foundation of the Church
____ Lesson 18: The Apostles: The First Bishops of the Church
____ Lesson 19: The Primacy of Peter
____ Lesson 20: Marks of the True Church
____ Lesson 21: The Living Church
____ Lesson 22: The Catholic Eastern Church: Rites
____ Lesson 23: The Papacy: Bishop of Rome, Powers of the Pope, and the Roman Curia
____ Lesson 24: The Hierarchy: Bishops, Priests, Deacons (Laity will be included in discussion)
____ Lesson 25: Church and State: Services of the Church to the State
____ Lesson 26: Authority of the Church: Infallibility, Indefectibility, and Salvation
____ Lesson 27: Schism, Apostasy, Heresy, and the Protestant Churches
____ Lesson 28: The Gates of Hell
____ Lesson 29: Communion of Saints and Forgiveness of Sins
____ Lesson 30: The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven & Hell (includes Purgatory)

COMMANDMENTS

____ Lesson 1: God’s Law

____ Lesson 2: The Great Commandments
____ Lesson 3: Works of Mercy and Obligation of Good Works
____ Lesson 4: The Commandments of God
____ Lesson 5: First Commandment
____ Lesson 6: Second Commandment
____ Lesson 7: Third Commandment
____ Lesson 8: Fourth Commandment
____ Lesson 9: Fifth Commandment
____ Lesson 10: Sixth and Ninth Commandments
____ Lesson 11: Seventh and Tenth Commandments
____ Lesson 12: Eight Commandment
____ Lesson 13: The Commandments of the Church
____ Lesson 14: First Commandment of the Church
____ Lesson 15: Second Commandment of the Church
____ Lesson 16: Third and Fourth Commandment of the Church
____ Lesson 17: Fifth Commandment of the Church

LITURGY, SACRAMENTS AND PRAYERS

____ Lesson 1: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments

____ Lesson 2: The Sacrament of Baptism
____ Lesson 3: The Sacrament of Confirmation
____ Lesson 4: The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
____ Lesson 5: The Sacrament of Penance
____ Lesson 6: The Sacrament of Extreme Unction
____ Lesson 7: The Sacrament of Matrimony
____ Lesson 8: The Sacrament of Holy Orders
____ Lesson 9: The Evangelical Counsels, Religious State, and Religious Communities
____ Lesson 10: Sacramentals
____ Lesson 11: Prayers and Devotions: Sign of the Cross, “Our Father”, and Prayers to Mary
____ Lesson 12: The Holy Rosary
____ Lesson 13: Other Practices of Devotion, Processions and Pilgrimages
____ Lesson 14: Religious Associations and Propagation of the Faith
____ Lesson 15: Church Symbolism
____ Lesson 16: Why I Am Catholic?