Father McGuire’s Christo-centric Catechism
Know, Love & Serve
Book 3
for Third & Fourth Grades
Contents
The Greatest Priority, General Introduction, Outline of Subject Matter, and Prayers
Lesson 1 The World We Live In
Lesson 2 This is Your World
Lesson 3 The Bible and the Catholic Church
Lesson 4 If Only Adam and Eve had Lived Rightly
Lesson 5 How We Imitate God Our Creator
Lesson 6 Creatures Share in God’s Glory
Lesson 7 All Things Made by God are Good
Lesson 8 Salvation History (1)
Lesson 9 Betrayal and Forgiveness
Lesson 10 Good Times and Bad Times
Lesson 11 God Tells His People How to Know, Love, and Serve Him Rightly
Lesson 12 Salvation History (2)
Lesson 13 The Savior of the World is Born
Lesson 14 Heaven and Earth Adore the God Man
Lesson 15 Joy in the Lord
Lesson 16 Jesus Leaves Home
Lesson 17 Jesus and the Devil
Lesson 18 Jesus Chooses His First Priests
Lesson 19 The Miracle of Jesus
Lesson 20 The Poor Hear the Gospel
Lesson 21 The Law of Love
Lesson 22 Nicodemus Meets Jesus
Lesson 23 People-Not-Friendly With Jesus
Lesson 24 Hard Sayings of Christ
Lesson 25 Friends of Christ and You
Lesson 26 Christ’s Last Supper
Lesson 27 The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Lesson 28 Your Holy Communion
Lesson 29 The Passion of Our Lord
Lesson 30 The Resurrection of Jesus
Lesson 31 The Ascension of Jesus
Lesson 32 The Sacrament of Confirmation
Lesson 33 Mary, The Immaculate Mother of God
Lesson 34 Sacramentals of the Church
Lesson 35 Indulgences
Lesson 36 A Few Popular Catholic Devotions
Lesson 37 Prayer
Appendix 1 Index and Glossary
Appendix 2 Brief Synthesis of Particular Doctrines
Suggestions
This series of catechisms incorporates the worthwhile advances in psychology and pedagogy, as urged by the Vatican Council II. It rejects the aims of extreme geneticists. social engineers and educators who consider the individual only in the perspective of community living. We are concerned with the individual as a person, who is by nature a component of society.
The basic principle of these religion books is the Catholic premise: Salvation is primarily and ultimately an individual work, under the guidance and help of the Catholic Church. This is the message of our Savior, that the Last Judgement will depend on personal merit or demerit.
Definite official teachings of our faith must be presented for the inspiration and safe travel of our children to eternal salvation. Pope Paul VI noted this when he said in 1967, opening the first Synod of Bishops; “Faith, … is not…acquiescence in the philosophical or sociological trends of passing historical moment… faith is… principally certainty.”
The defined Catholic truths are unchangeable. There can be no accommodation. For Christian civilization to endure, each age has to be related to these certainties for correct thinking and virtuous living. When our Lord commissioned His disciples to teach all nations, He said: “Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.”
Accordingly, in this catechism we make no concessions to the current consensus or situation ethics determination of truth and morality. In every lesson we include approved Questions and Answers. All contain the doctrine professed in The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Those recommended for memorizing are marked with an asterisk before them.