Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Here's something cool I thought I'd share.



This looks like a really cool project, and I hear it's legit. His other videos are good too!

V.V. is HardCore

Take the Quiz. I dare you. I did pretty badly the first time I took it, with a barely-thirteen-out-of-thirty-one. After looking at the answer key, there were many face-palm "D'oh!" moments, but a majority of the things on there I did not know. Which is pretty depressing...

The second time around, I tried not to look and re-did my answers with what I knew. Here're the answers I had. And I'm still not that good. Urgh.

I have a vague memory of the 4 Cardinal Virtues, 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Spiritual/Corporal Acts of Mercy, and the 12 Fruits of the Holy Spirit from something like fourth grade (my first year in a Catholic school), and that's it. None of them were ever mentioned ever again.

Personally, I think that we should switch things up a bit. Whereas last year we mostly focused on memorizing the seven Sacraments (many people had a hard time with this and acted as if it was the first time they'd heard of most of them, justified in the fact that we haven't really been tested on them since--guess--fifth grade), I think that this is a bit off.

I'm of the opinion that we should be expected to have the Sacraments down to pat every year after fourth grade. Pop-quizzes would be great. As the students mature mentally, they'll be able to have a maturing understanding of the Sacraments with each year.

They should also be able to remember that Jesus IS God, that the Son, Father and Holy Spirit are all Three Persons, One God, as was pounded into our skulls for three units last year...but that's another story.

In 7th grade, the students should start working on the harder, more "memorization" oriented aspects:the Acts of Mercy, the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, the Virtues, the Sins, the Gifts... Right along with memorizing the Stations of the Cross (last year), the Creed (this year)...

I believe that Verbum Veritatis is right: The items on his quiz are all things that you should know before you get Confirmed.

I'm getting Confirmed later this year with both my class and the 7th grade. I'm considered the go-to person in Religion class, I'm known as the girl who "studied religion over the summer" and "the prude" and "the puritan" among other things. I don't know these things. I've never looked for them, because by the time I've become aware of my faith's importance, I'd forgotten they even existed.

My point is: We haven't been taught this, or what we have been taught hasn't stayed over the years of having not been reminded of them, and I feel that our textbooks don't go as in-depth as they should on certain subjects. Most of the points on VerbumVeritatis's quiz should be met before one gets Confirmed--it's only right to KNOW, really KNOW about your faith before you "confirm" yourself in it and pledge yourself to give everything for it!

I don't know. It's still early in the year. Maybe I'll be surprised--in a good way, because getting gawked at by numerous classmates for saying that Jesus IS God, and that the Body of Christ is--guess what, the BODY OF CHRIST--was surprising, too...

--Rae

**And I only know the 7 Deadly Sins from pop-culture (Fullmetal Alchemist being the biggest influence there). Pictured below is the NightmareFuel Gluttony. In his least frightening form.