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GRADE 8 CHRISTIAN LIVING EDUCATION

MODULE 8

NEW TESTAMENT EVENTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN SALVATION HISTORY

Objectives:

 Describe the following New Testament events and explain their significance in salvation history.
o Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection
o The institution of the Sacraments
o Pentecost and the Holy Spirit
o The Institution of the Church
 Identify and emulate the virtues and values Jesus and Mary manifested in the different events that
happened in their lives.
 Write a prayer of supplication and thanksgiving to God, for giving us His only Son, as the way, the
truth and the life of our life.
LOGGING ON

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The Paschal mystery is one of the central concepts of Catholic faith relating to the history of

salvation. Its main subject is the passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ – the work that God
the Father sent His Son to accomplish on earth. According to the Compendium of the Catechism of
the Catholic Church, "The Paschal Mystery accomplished once for all by the redemptive death of His
Son Jesus Christ."[1] The Catechism states that in the liturgy of the Church which revolves around the
seven sacraments, "it is principally His own Paschal mystery that Christ signifies and makes
present."[2][3]
Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox Christian churches celebrate this mystery on Easter. It is recalled
and celebrated also during every Eucharist,[4] and especially on a Sunday, which is the Pascha of the
week.[5]
Paschal mystery embraces several events of Jesus' passing away from this world. They are central to
the Christian Creed.
The Crucifixion and Descent of Jesus to the Dead
Jesus sacrificed his life by freely accepting death on the cross and being put in a tomb. In experiencing death and
overcoming it in resurrection, Christ assures us that we will have life everlasting with God as we too, through
Christ's accomplishment as our representative, will triumph over death and pass into eternal life with the
resurrection of the glorified body.

The Resurrection
Three days after he died and was buried, Christian faith holds that Jesus was raised from the dead with a new and
glorified body. All four Gospels of the New Testament clearly give an account of the resurrection. This event is at the
heart of faith in Christ (see 1 Corinthians 15:3-5).

The Ascension and Exaltation

Forty days after the resurrection, the risen Christ ascended to the Father in Heaven, God's domain. From there,
Christ, who is hidden from our eyes, will come again in glory at the end of time to judge the living and the dead.
Through the Ascension and Exaltation of Christ, humanity has been given the unbreakable promise of everlasting
life with God.
Through the Paschal Mystery everything has been justified and made right in Christ with God. Jesus came to fulfil
and perfect the covenant of God, and to assure all that God's love is eternal and constant.
"As Jesus truly dies and is buried, how we should be filled with wonder! Seamlessly the sadness of Christ’s death
gives way to the joy of the Resurrection as Easter dawns upon us" (Compendium, 126).
Pause and Reflect
1. What is Paschal Mystery?
2. What do we learn from the sufferings and death of Jesus?

2. THE INSTITUTION OF THE SACRAMENTS

PAUSE AND REFLECT
1. What was the command of Jesus to his Apostles after His resurrection or, before His ascension into heaven?
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2. What is the Sacrament of Baptism and its importance in the life of a Christian?
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3. JESUS CALLING HIS APOSTLES TO HELP HIM SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS

PROLOGUE
"FATHER, . . . this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
have sent."1 "God our Savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the
truth."2 "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" 3 - than the
name of JESUS.

I. THE LIFE OF MAN - TO KNOW AND LOVE GOD

1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him
share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls
man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided
by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent
his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his
adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

2 So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen,
commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded
you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." 4 Strengthened by this mission, the apostles "went forth
and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that
attended it."5

3 Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of
Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been
faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation,
by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.6

PAUSE AND REFLECT

1. Are you called to be an apostle? Why and How?
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2. What are the qualifications Jesus used when selecting His 12 apostles?
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3. List down the good news that Jesus wanted his Apostles to spread throughout the world.
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4. Today who are the successors of the apostles who continue to spread the good news of God?

4. JESUS MIRACLES

Jesus Christ performed many miracles, demonstrating his power over nature and spirits, and thus confirming that
the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:15). “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).
Through the above miracle, Jesus recruited his first four Apostles - Peter, his brother Andrew, and James and
John.
Hebrew Scripture, our Old Testament of the Bible, abounds in miracles, three famous ones being God's creation of
the universe (Genesis 1-2), God through Moses parting the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21-22), and the sun and moon
standing still in Joshua 10:12-14. In a physical miracle, such as making the blind see, or walking on water, or
calming a storm, the laws of the universe are suspended through divine intervention.
Jesus the Christ also performed moral miracles in the New Testament. In a moral miracle, such as forgiveness of
sins or driving out demons, the blessing of Jesus purifies the soul. In Mark 2:1-12, Jesus performed a physical
miracle, healing the paralytic, to demonstrate a moral miracle, the forgiveness of sins.

Only three miracles appear in all four Gospels - his own Resurrection (Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John
20), the greatest miracle of them all; the feeding of the 5000 through the multiplication of the loaves and fish, found
in Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, and John 6:1-14; and, while different individuals are involved

The miracle stories are an integral part of the Gospel narrative, as in the Gospel of Mark, where nearly half of Mark's
account of the public ministry of Jesus (Chapters 1-10) describes miracles. The ministry of Jesus is centered on the
establishment of God's imminent Kingdom, which ended the dominion of the evil one over the world, present ever
since sin and death entered mankind. The miracles were Jesus' chief weapon in the struggle with evil (Mark 3:22-
27), the most direct being the exorcism of demons, which defeated the power of evil and liberated humanity. That is
PAUSE AND REFLECT
1. What do you think are the reasons why Jesus made so many miracles for the people of his time?
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2. Jesus’ miracles are classified into three categories.
a. Power over nature
b. Power over demons and diseases
c. Power over death
Classify the 37 miracles of Jesus into three categories. (Refer to Hand out B.)

POWER OVER NATURE POWER OVER DEMONS & DISEASES POWER OVER DEATH

3. In your own life, what are the miracles that are so memorable to you? Give at least five.
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TRANSFORMING LIVES
 Get to know more about St. Vincent Ferrer, the miracle worker.
St Vincent Ferrer and the stories of those he raised from the dead
One of greatest miracle workers in the history of the Catholic church was the Dominican priest St. Vincent
Ferrer (1350-1419). He moved in the limelight before both ordinary people and the great of the world. He
once converted 10,000 Jews at one time by marching right into their synagogue and preaching to them; the
Jews turned their synagogue into a Catholic Church.
So great a missionary was St. Vincent Ferrer that he can only be compared to the 12 Apostles. His
accomplishments were incredible and rare in the whole history of the Church; his life story contains one
amazing story after another, many of these are documented in the book “St Vincent Ferrer –The Angel of the
Judgment” by Father Andrew Pradel, O.P.

When St. Vincent Ferrer was 46 years old, suffering from a grievous illness, Our Lord appeared to him,
accompanied by St. Francis and St. Dominic; Our Lord said to Vincent, among other things, "Arise, then, and
go to preach against vice; for this have I specially chosen thee. Exhort sinners to repentance, for My
judgment is at hand." Our Lord told St. Vincent that his preaching before the coming of Antichrist would be for
mankind a merciful occasion of repentance and conversion.
During this vision St. Vincent was immediately cured.

Two years later, in 1398, he was given permission to begin his apostolate of preaching. St. Vincent travelled
all over Western Europe preaching penance, attracting enormous crowds, and followed by thousands of
disciples. He converted St. Bernardine of Siena and Blessed Margaret of Savoy. Vincent had the gift of
languages; preaching in his Valencion idiom he was understood wherever he went; and in conversation he
spoke French, Italian, German or English as fluently as his native tongue.

St. Vincent Ferrer identified himself as "The Angel of the Judgment" and preached as if the end of the world
were near. Some would say that since it did not end, Vincent, at least in that respect, failed as a prophet. It
would seem there is a simple answer: All such prophecies or predictions by individuals are contingent upon
reform and penance. Through Vincent's thunderous words and the results of his preaching, the end of the
world was simply delayed again. Many who are informed in the ways of God, of prophecy and reparation,
believe this has probably happened more than once in the history of the world. To cite two examples from
Holy Scripture: Jerusalem was spared again and again before its final destruction by the Romans and also
the city of Ninevah was spared through the conversion of the people due to the preaching of Jonah the
prophet.
Some would consider it a conservative estimate that St. Vincent Ferrer converted 25,000 Jews and 8,000
Moors; his total number of conversions was around 200,000 souls- among them Moors, Jews, heretics, and
apostate Catholics. At Toulouse he spoke on the Passion for six hours without a break before a crowd of
30,000 at the packed Place St. Etienne. When he cried out, "Arise you dead, and come to Judgment!"  the
whole crowd fell on their faces begging for mercy.

Learning about the many other wonders of St. Vincent makes it easier to accept the accounts of his death-to-
life miracles. The Acta Sanctorum records 873 miracles performed by the saint, but there were actually many
more. In 1412 Vincent himself told a crowd, "God has wrought in His mercy, through me a miserable sinner,
three thousand miracles." After that Vincent lived seven more years, which was a period of even greater
miracles.
Source: https://www.miraclesofthesaints.com/2010/10/saints-who-raised-dead-people-brought.html
 PAUSE AND REFLECT

What are the everyday miracles that can work within the family during this COVID 19 outbreak?

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Write a short prayer of supplication in this time of pandemic.

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Prepared by: SR. MA. PILAR GUILLEN, OP

Teacher
PASSION, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS

THE TRIAL OF JESUS

Divisions among the Jewish authorities concerning Jesus

595 Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of
Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St.
John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in him", though very
imperfectly.378 This is not surprising, if one recalls that on the day after Pentecost "a great many of the priests were
obedient to the faith" and "some believers. . . belonged to the party of the Pharisees", to the point that St. James could
tell St. Paul, "How many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for
the Law."379

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Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers.381 To those who feared that "everyone will believe in him, and
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