The sin of Adam and Eve brought death into the world and deprived us of eternal life with God. But God did not abandon us; He promised us a Redeemer--His own Son, Jesus Christ. Man could never fully atone for his sin, because we owe God our entire existence. Our sin, both original and personal, severs our relationship with God.
Only Christ, true God and true man, can repair it. His Incarnation is the central event of human history, in which (as the Athanasian Creed states) humanity was assumed into the Godhead. Christ is God from all eternity, but He became man at the Incarnation, at the moment of His conception in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Annunciation, ninth months before His Birth at Christmas.
Christ did not come simply to save mankind, however, but to instruct us as well. His life on earth is the example for us in all things--including in suffering and sacrifice, the theme of next week's lesson.
Lesson Seventh from the Confirmation Catechism has 18 questions. Note that the lesson begins with Question 60, continuing with the numbering from Lesson Sixth.
In the First Communion Catechism, the parallel lesson this week is Lesson Sixth. It is quite a bit shorter; it includes 7 questions drawn from Lesson Seventh of the Confirmation Catechism.
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