Chapter 1: Jesus is the Son of God
 

1. God the Father sent his Son, Jesus, to be with us.
2. Jesus is God’s greatest gift to us.
3. The name Jesus means “God saves”.
4. We call Jesus, Joseph, and Mary the Holy Family.
5. Jesus wanted people to know that God always cares for them.
6. Jesus taught us the Our Father.
7. Divine is a word we use to describe God. This means that Jesus is God and could do things only God can do.
8. We call the three Persons in one God the Blessed Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
9. Jesus brought the good news that God loves all people.
10. Jesus taught us that God is with us always.
11. Jesus is human like us.
12. Jesus, the Son of God, taught us about God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

Chapter 2: Jesus Christ Gives Us the Church

1. Jesus was good and fair to everyone.
2. A disciple of Jesus is someone who follows Jesus by doing what he taught.
3. Peter, Andrew, Mary, and Martha were some of the first disciples of Jesus.
4. The twelve men chosen by Jesus to be the leaders of his disciples were called the apostles.
5. Jesus died on the cross.
6. Jesus died and rose from the dead to save us from sin.
7. Jesus’ rising from the dead is called Resurrection.
8. we celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter.
9. Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples.
10. We call the day the Holy Spirit came to help the disciples Pentecost.
11. On the Pentecost the Church began.
12. The Church celebrates the feast of Pentecost fifty days after Easter Sunday.
13. The Church is all the people who are baptized in Jesus Christ and follow his teachings.

14. The Holy Spirit helps us to live as Jesus wants us to live and helps us to tell others about Jesus Christ.

Chapter 3: We Celebrate God’s Love
 

1. We belong to the Catholic Church.
2. Catholics are baptized members of the Church, led and guided by the pope and bishops.
3. Parishes are communities that worship and work together.
4. Catholics celebrate God’s love by praying and worshiping.
5. Faith is a gift from God that helps us to trust God and believe in him.
6. Worship is to give thanks and praise to God.
7. We gather as a parish community each week at Mass to celebrate all Jesus has done for us.
8. Our church celebrates with seven special signs called sacraments.
9. A sacrament is a special sign given to us by Jesus.
10. Jesus is present with us in the sacraments.
11. The sacraments help us to live as friends of Jesus.
12. The seven sacraments are: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders.

 Chapter 4: We Celebrate Baptism

1. At Baptism, we become children of God and members of the Church.
2. Baptism is the first sacrament you receive.
3. At Baptism, we receive grace, a share in God’s life.
4. Water is an important sign of the sacrament of Baptism.
5. We call God’s life in us grace.
6. The first man and woman disobeyed God. That first sin is called original sin.
7. We are all born with original sin.
8. Baptism is the sacrament in which we are freed from sin and given grace, a share in God’s life. 
9. We celebrate the sacrament of Baptism with special words and actions.
10.  We can show that we are children of God by what we say and do.
11.  Your parents and god parents promise to keep the light of Christ burning in your life.