THE CATECHISM EXPLAINED
AN EXHAUSTIVE EXPOSITION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
A PRACTICAL MANUAL
FOR THE USE OF THE PREACHER, THE CATECHIST, THE TEACHER, AND THE FAMILY.
MADE ATTRACTIVE AND INTERESTING BY
ILLUSTRATIONS, COMPARISONS, AND QUOTATIONS
FROM THE
SCRIPTURES, THE FATHERS, AND OTHER WRITERS.
FROM THE ORIGINAL, OF
REV. FRANCIS SPIRAGO,
Professor of Theology.
- Preface
- Devotions
- General Survey of the Faith
- Introduction to the Catholic Faith
- Part I. Faith
- I. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- II. DIVINE REVELATION
- III. THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL
- IV. HOLY SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION
- V. THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
- VI. THE MOTIVES OF FAITH
- VII. ON THE ABSENCE AND LOSS OF FAITH
- VIII. ON THE DUTY OF CONFESSING OUR FAITH
- IX. THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
- X. THE APOSTLES CREED
- FIRST ARTICLE OF THE CREED: “I BELIEVE IN GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.”
- SECOND TO SEVENTH ARTICLE OF THE CREED: JESUS CHRIST
- EIGHTH ARTICLE OF THE CREED: THE HOLY GHOST
- NINTH ARTICLE OF THE CREED: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- 1. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS INSTITUTION
- 2. THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH
- 3. BISHOPS, PRIESTS, THE FAITHFUL
- 4. FOUNDATION AND SPREAD OF THE CHURCH
- 5. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS INDESTRUCTIBLE AND INFALLIBLE
- 6. THE HIERARCHY OF THE CHURCH
- 7. NOTES OF THE TRUE CHURCH
- 8. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ALONE GIVES SALVATION
- 9. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
- 10. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS
- TENTH ARTICLE OF THE CREED: THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS
- ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH ARTICLES OF THE CREED: THE LAST THINGS
- CHRISTIAN HOPE
- Part II. The Commandments, Vice and Virtue, Perfection
- A. THE COMMANDMENTS
- I. WHAT COMMANDMENTS (OR LAWS) HAS GOD GIVEN US?
- II. THE TWO COMMANDMENTS OF CHARITY
- III. THE PRECEPT OF THE LOVE OF GOD
- IV. THE LOVE OF THE WORLD IS OPPOSED TO THE LOVE OF GOD
- V. THE COMMANDMENT OF CHARITY TOWARDS OUR NEIGHBOR
- VI. LACK OF CHARITY TO ONE’S NEIGHBOR
- VII. LOVE OF ONE’S FRIENDS
- VIII. THE COMMANDMENT TO LOVE OUR ENEMY
- IX. THE LOVE OF ONE’S SELF
- X. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
- THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- 1. THE ADORATION OR WORSHIP OF GOD
- 2. IDOLATRY OR THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS
- 3. FOOLISH OR PERVERTED WORSHIP
- Sins Against the First Commandment
- 4. THE VENERATION OF SAINTS
- 5. THE VENERATION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
- 6. THE VENERATION OF IMAGES OF THE SAINTS
- 7. THE VENERATION OF RELICS
- 8. THE EXTRAORDINARY WORSHIP OF GOD
- THE SECOND COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE THIRD COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE NINTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE TENTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF GOD
- XI. THE WORKS OF MERCY
- XII. THE DUTY OF GRATITUDE
- XIII. THE POVERTY OF THE CHRISTIAN
- B. GOOD WORKS, VIRTUE, SIN, VICE
- I. GOOD WORKS
- II. VIRTUE
- III. SIN
- IV. VICE
- V. THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN
- VI. TEMPTATION
- VII. OCCASIONS OF SIN
- VIII. THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL VIRTUES AND THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL VICES
- 1. HUMILITY
- 2. THE OPPOSITE OF HUMILITY: PRIDE
- 3. OBEDIENCE
- 4. DISOBEDIENCE
- 5. PATIENCE, MEEKNESS, PEACEABLENESS
- 6. THE OPPOSITE OF MEEKNESS: WRATH
- 7. LIBERALITY
- 8. THE OPPOSITE OF LIBERALITY: AVARICE
- 9. TEMPERANCE IN EATING AND DRINKING
- 10. INTEMPERANCE IN EATING AND DRINKING
- 11. CHASTITY
- 12. UNCHASTITY
- 13. ZEAL IN WHAT IS GOOD
- 14. THE OPPOSITE OF ZEAL: SLOTH
- C. CHRISTIAN PERFECTION
- A. THE COMMANDMENTS
- PART III. The Means of Grace
- I. THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
- 1. ON SACRIFICE IN GENERAL
- 2. THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST UPON THE CROSS
- 3. THE INSTITUTION, NATURE, AND PRINCIPAL PARTS OF THE MASS
- 1. The Son of God offered a sacrifice at the Last Supper, because He gave His body and blood to be offered up, in order to reconcile His heavenly Father with man
- 2. We call the sacrifice instituted by Our Lord at the Last Supper holy Mass, or the sacrifice of the Mass
- 3. What takes place in the sacrifice of the Mass
- 4. There are three distinct parts in the sacrifice of the Mass: the offertory, the consecration, and the communion
- 4. THE CEREMONIAL OF THE MASS
- 5. THE RELATION WHICH THE MASS BEARS TO THE SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS
- 6. THE PROFIT TO BE DERIVED FROM THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
- 7. THE CELEBRATION OF HOLY MASS
- 8. THE VALUE OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.
- 9. DEVOTION AT HOLY MASS
- 10. THE OBLIGATION OF HEARING MASS
- 11. THE TIME WHEN MASS IS TO BE CELEBRATED
- 12. THE PLACE WHERE MASS IS TO BE CELEBRATED
- 13. THE VESTMENTS AND SACRED VESSELS USED AT MASS
- 14. THE COLORS OF THE VESTMENTS
- 15. THE LANGUAGE OF THE MASS
- 16. SINGING AT MASS
- 17. HEARING THE WORD OF GOD
- II. THE SACRAMENTS
- III. THE SACRAMENTALS
- IV. PRAYER
- I. THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS