Grade 7

RELIGION BENCHMARKS

RELIGION CURRICULUM

JESUS CHRIST IS THE FULL AND FINAL REVELATION OF GOD. HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

SACRED TRADITION AND SACRED SCRIPTURE MAKE UP A SINGLE SACRED DEPOSIT OF THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS ENTRUSTED TO THE CHURCH. 

ALL THAT EXISTS, BOTH SEEN AND UNSEEN WAS CREATED THROUGH1 THE WORD.  

AFTER THE FALL, ALL HUMAN BEINGS STAND IN NEED OF REDEMPTION. THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE HUMANS LOST GOD'S GRACE.  

IN HIS PROVIDENCE, THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, IN TYPES (PRE-FIGUREMENTS) AND PROPHECY, GOD PROMISES A REDEEMER.  

THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD WAS BORN OF WOMAN THROUGH WHOM WE BECAME HIS ADOPTED CHILDREN.  

MARY COOPERATED IN GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION. MARY'S FIAT AT ANNUNCIATION WAS HER UNCONDITIONAL YES TO BECOMING THE MOTHER OF GOD. 

JESUS CHRIST WAS RAISED IN NAZARETH AND WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF HIS RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY. 

THE TITLE MESSIAH OR CHRIST MEANS ANOINTED ONE. THIS IS A TITLE AND ROLE, NOT A NAME.  

JESUS CHRIST REVEALS THE INTER LIFE OF THE BLESSED TRINITY. GOD IS THREE EQUAL PERSONS, ONE DIVINE NATURE OR GODHEAD. 

JESUS CHRIST IS TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN.  

THE HUMAN AUTHORS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DEPEND PRIMARILY ON ORAL TRADITION ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND HIS

THE FOUR GOSPELS PROCLAIM THE LIFE, MINISTRY, MIRACLES AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST. 

JESUS CHRIST'S PASSION, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION ARE THE HIGH POINT AND MAIN FOCUS OF ALL THE GOSPELS.  

THERE ARE 2if BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, INCLUDING GOSPELS, ACTS, LETTERS, AND REVELATl0N. 

JESUS CHRIST CALLED HIS DISCIPLES TO FOLLOW HIM. 

THE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED BY JESUS CHRIST AND IS RECOGNIZED BY THE FOUR MARKS OF THE CHURCH. 

JESUS CHRIST MADE SIMON, SON·OF JOHN, WHOM HE NAMED PETER, THE ROCK OF HIS CHURCH AND SHEPHERD OF THE WHOLE FLOCK.  

JESUS CHRIST TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HOW TO PRAY, LIVE, SERVE AND LOVE. 

JESUS CHRIST IS THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 

THE SACRAMENTS WERE INSTITUTED BY JESUS CHRIST AND ENTRUSTED TO THE CHURCH.  

AT PENTECOST, THE HOLY SPIRIT, DESCENDED UPON THE DISCIPLES.

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES TELLS THE STORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH. 

THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST.  

HELL'S PRINCIPAL PUNISHMENT CONSISTS IN ETERNAL SEPARATION1 FROM GOD.  

THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES ARE NECESSARY TO LIVE A LIFE IN KEEPING WITH THE GOSPEL AND THE COMMANDS OF JESUS CHRIST. 

LITURGY IS THE PUBLIC WORK OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST, THI; CHURCH. 

JESUS CHRIST TAUGHT US HOW TO TREAT ONE ANOTHER WITH JUSTICE AND MERCY IN ORDER TO TRULY LIVE AS HIS DISCIPLES. 

Review Previously Taught Prayers 

Prayers to Memorize

Faith Theme: Jesus Christ, the Lord 

Faith Theme: Worship and Liturgy

Faith Theme: Social Justice/Service

Several passages in the New Testament teach specifically on the redemption God gives us through Jesus Christ. 

The Canon of Scripture includes 46 books for the Old Testament and 27 for the New Testament.

The book of Genesis has two symbolic stories of creation that reveal God as the source of all life.

Human beings are created with a body and a soul. 

The human person has both a physical and a spiritual dimension. 

The spiritual principle of human beings is the soul. The soul is the subject of human consciousness and freedom; soul and body together form one unique human nature. Each human soul is individual and immortal, immediately created by God. 

As a consequence of Original Sin man lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world. Human nature is described as being in a fallen state. 

There are present in the Old Testament Scriptures types and prophecies regarding the , Promised Savior. 

God sent his Son born of The Blessed Virgin Mary through which we became his adopted children. 

Mary is the Ever-Virgin Mother of God. 

The New Testament mentions several historical cities and places, as well as geographical features that can be located on a map. 

Jewish culture during the time of Jesus Christ had many elements and components.  

Messiah is a Hebrew word meaning "anointed". 

Christ is a translation into Greek from the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed". It became the name proper to Jesus because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission of priest, prophet, and King, signified by his anointing as Messiah, "Christ".

In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance.

The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity is the center of Christian life and belief. 

In the Mystery of the Incarnation God the Son, the Word, became fully human without loss 1.1.1 of His Godhead.  

In Jesus Christ there is a unity of human nature and divine nature in the one divine person of the Son. God the Son is consubstantial with the Father. 

The Gospel writers, the Evangelists, were inspired by God the Holy Spirit to write the good news of our salvation. 

The development of the New Testament canon resulted in 27 books. The four Gospels in the New Testament canon have commonalities between them and particularities that make each unique. 

The Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John each have a unique presentation of Jesus Christ. 

The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ can be found in all four Gospels. 

The books of the New Testament are each classified into a literary genre. 

Jesus Christ summoned to himself Twelve Apostles and gave them the power and authority 5.5.6 to act in his Name.  

The bishops have by divine institution taken the place of the apostles as pastors of the Church to collaborate the work begun, to tend the whole flock. The Holy Spirit guides the  bishops in shepherding the Church of God.  

The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. 

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, St. Peter's successor, and the Church's supreme pastor. 

Jesus Christ taught in parables to provide the people with a new way of living God's call to love and forgiveness. 

The Beatitudes were given by Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount to help people live according to the values of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus Christ taught about the end of the world, the Second Coming, the General Judgment and the Resurrection of the Dead.  

Jesus Christ heals the sick and forgives sinners, calling all to repentance. 

Jesus Christ shows the power, forgiveness, and the compassion of God through the miracles he performs. 

Jesus Christ is at work in each of the Seven Sacraments. Sacraments confer the grace they 2.2.1- signify, and each has form and matter. 

The Holy Spirit is the third divine Person of the Blessed Trinity, the personal love of Father and Son for each other. 

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.  

Key events in the Acts of the Apostles provides a broad survey of the church's development from the resurrection of Jesus Christ to Paul's first Roman imprisonment and how the early Church lived and shared in community. 

In the Communion of Saints, all the faithful of Jesus Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, those being purified, and the blessed in heaven share in a common fund of spiritual 1.3.9 goods. 

Beatific Vision is the contemplation of God in heavenly glory, a gift of God which is a constitutive element of the happiness (or beatitude) of heaven. 

Hell is the state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed. It is reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives. Hell's principal punishment consists of eternal separation from God. 

The Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity) are gifts infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as his children and meriting eternal life.

The laity, consecrated religious and ordained ministers are called to join in the work and prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is the daily public prayer of the Church, prayed at regular intervals throughout the day.

The Church marks time with a Liturgical Calendar, in order to sanctify our days. 

The Bishop calls the faithful to "full, active and conscious participation" in the Liturgy; especially, the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration, the central liturgical action of the faithful.  

The Seven Sacraments are celebrated as part of the Liturgical work of the Church and help the faithful to lead lives directed towards Jesus Christ.

The message of justice and mercy in the Beatitudes is central to the New Covenant. 

The Church gives us 7 points of Social Teaching by which to model our lives. 

Every disciple of Jesus Christ has a responsibility to serve those in need through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.  

Act of Love

Stations of the Cross 

Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary 

JESUS CHRIST IS THE FULL AND FINAL REVELATION OF GOD. HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

SACRED TRADITION AND SACRED SCRIP"FURE MAKE UP A SINGLE SACRED DEPOSIT OF THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS ENTRUSTED TO THE CHURCH.  

ALL THAT EXISTS, BOTH SEEN AND UNSEEN WAS CREATED THROUGH THE WORD. 

AFTER THE FALL, ALL HUMAN BEINGS STAND IN NEED OF REDEMPTION. THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE HUMANS LOST GOD'S GRACE. 

IN HIS PROVIDENCE, THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE, IN TYPES (PRE-FIGUREMENTS) AND PROPHECY, GOD PROMISES A REDEEMER.  

THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD WAS BORN OF WOMANITHROUGH WHOM WE BECAME HIS ADOPTED CHILDREN. 

MARY COOPERATED IN GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION. MARY'S FIAT AT ANNUNCIATION WAS HER UNCONDITIONAL YES TO BECOMING THE MOTHER OF GOD. 

JESUS CHRIST WAS RAISED IN NAZARETH1AND WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF HIS RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY. 

THE TITLE MESSIAH OR CHRIST MEANS ANOINTED ONE. THIS IS A TITLE AND ROLE, NOT A NAME.  

JESUS CHRIST REVEALS THE INTER LIFE OF THE BLESSED TRINITY. GOD IS THREE EQUAL PERSONS, ONE DIVINE NATURE OR GODHEAD. 

JESUS CHRIST IS TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN

THE HUMAN AUTHORS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DEPEND PRIMARILY ON ORAL TRADITION ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FIRST FOLLOWERS. 

THE FOUR GOSPELS PROCLAIM THE LIFE, MINISTRY, MIRACLES AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST. 

JESUS CHRIST'S PASSION, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION ARE THE HIGH POINT AND MAIN FOCUS OF ALL THE GOSPELS. 

THERE ARE 27 BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, INCLUDING GOSPELS, ACTS, LETTERS, AND REVELATION. 

JESUS CHRIST CALLED HIS DISCIPLES TO FOLLOW HIM.

THE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED BY JESUS CHRIST AND IS RECOGNIZED BY THE FOUR MARKS OF THE CHURCH. 

JESUS CHRIST MADE SIMON, SON,OF JOHN, WHOM HE NAMED PETER, THE ROCK OF HIS CHURCH AND SHEPHERD OF THE WHOLE FLOCK. 

JESUS CHRIST TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HOW TO PRAY, LIVE, SERVE AND LOVE.

JESUS CHRIST IS THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 

THE SACRAMENTS WERE INSTITUTED BY JESUS CHRIST AND ENTRUSTED TO THE CHURCH~

AT PENTECOST, THE HOLY SPIRIT, DESCENDED UPON THE DISCIPLES. 

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES TELLS THE STORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH. 

SAINT PAUL JOURNEYED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL MESSAGE AMONG THE GENTILES. HE AUTHORED-MANY OF THE 

THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST. 

HELL'S PRINCIPAL PUNISHMENT CONSISTS IN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. 

THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES ARE NECESSARY TO LIVE A LIFE IN KEEPING WITH THE GOSPEL AND THE COMMANDS OF

THE CARDINAL VIRTUES ARE THE HABITS THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO RESPOND EFFECTIVELY TO THE THEOLOGICAL

LITURGY IS THE P.UBLIC WORK OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST, THE CHURCH. 

JESUS CHRIST TAUGHT US HOW TO TREAT ONE ANOTHER WITH JUSTICE AND MERCY IN ORDER TO TRULY LIVE AS HIS DISCIPLES. 

Revelation is God telling us about Himself, ourselves, and the world around us, and inviting us into relationship with Him. Divine Revelation is relational and calls us to actively receive what God has first given. 

The Incarnation is the fact that the Son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our salvation in that same human nature. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, is both true God and true man, not part God and part man. 

Several passages in the New Testament teach specifically on the redemption God gives us through Jesus Christ. 

The Canon of Scripture includes 46 books for the Old Testament and 27 for the New Testament.  

The living transmission by Holy Mother Church, accomplished in the Holy Spirit, is called Sacred Tradition.

Scripture and Divine Tradition together make up a single deposit of faith.

The book of Genesis has two symbolic stories of creation that reveal God as the source of all life. 

Human beings are created with a body and a soul. 

The human person has both a physical and a spiritual dimension. 

The spiritual principle of human beings is the soul. The soul is the subject of human consciousness and freedom; soul and body together form one unique human nature. Each human soul  is individual and immortal, immediately created by God.  

Sanctifying grace heals our human nature wounded by sin by giving us a share in the divine life of the Trinity. It is a habitual, supernatural gift which continues the work of sanctifying us - making us "perfect", holy, and Christlike. 

Original sin is the sin by which the first human beings disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than the will of God. 

The fall of the angels can be compared to the fall of man, behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy. 

As a consequence of Original Sin man lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world. Human nature is described as being in a fallen state. 

There are present in the Old Testament Scriptures types and prophecies regarding the Promised Savior.  

God sent his Son born of The Blessed Virgin Mary through which we became his adopted children. 

Mary is the Ever-Virgin Mother of God. 

Catholic teaching regarding the singular vocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is that she is the Mother of God.  

The New Testament mentions several historical cities and places, as well as geographical features that can be located on a map. 

Jewish culture during the time of Jesus Christ had many elements and components. 

Messiah is a Hebrew word meaning "anointed". 

Christ is a translation into Greek from the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed". It became the name proper to Jesus because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission of priest, prophet, and King, signified by his anointing as Messiah, "Christ".

In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, they are one nature or substance. 

The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity is the center of Christian life and belief.  

In the Mystery of the Incarnation God the Son, the Word, became fully human without loss of His Godhead.

In Jesus Christ there is a unity of human nature and divine nature in the one divine person of the Son. God the Son is consubstantial with the Father.

The Gospel writers, the Evangelists, were inspired by God the Holy Spirit to write the good news of our salvation.

The development of the New Testament canon resulted in 27 books. The four Gospels in the New Testament canon have commonalities between them and particularities that make each unique. 

The Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of John each have a unique presentation of Jesus Christ.  

The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ can be found in all four Gospels. 

The books of the New Testament are each classified into a literary genre.

Jesus Christ summoned to himself Twelve Apostles and gave them the power and authority to act in his Name.  

The bishops have by divine institution taken the place of the apostles as pastors of the Church to collaborate the work they had begun, to tend the whole flock. The Holy Spirit guides the bishops in shepherding The Church of God.  

The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. 

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, St. Peter's successor, and the Church's supreme pastor.  

Infallibility is the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church whereby the pope/ pastors of the Church and bishops in union with him, can definitively proclaim a doctrine of faith or morals for the belief of the faithful. 

Jesus Christ taught in parables to provide the people with a new way of living God's call to love and forgiveness.

The Beatitudes were given by Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount to help people live according to the values of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus Christ taught about the end of the world, the Second Coming, the General Judgment and the Resurrection of the Dead.

Jesus Christ heals the sick and forgives sinners, calling all to repentance. 

Jesus Christ shows the power, forgiveness, and the compassion of God through the miracles He performs.  

Jesus Christ is at work in each of the Seven Sacraments. Sacraments confer the grace they signify, and each has form and matter.  

The Holy Spirit is the third divine Person of the Blessed Trinity, the personal love of Father and Son for each other.  

The Holy Spirit is always guiding the Church in the Magisterium, Liturgy, in the witness of the saints and in the whole work of salvation.  

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord.  

Key events in the Acts of the Apostles provide a broad survey of the church's development from the resurrection of Jesus Christ to Paul's first Roman imprisonment and how the early Church lived and shared in community.

During the missionary journeys of Saint Paul several letters were written by him. These letters now make up part of the New Testament Canon. 

In the Communion of Saints, all the faithful of Jesus Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, those being purified, and the blessed in heaven share in a common fund of spiritual goods.

Indulgence is the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven.

Beatific Vision is the contemplation of God in heavenly glory, a gift of God which is a constitutive element of the happiness (or beatitude) of heaven.  

Hell is the state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed. It is reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives. Hell's principal punishment consists of eternal separation from God. 

The Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope and Charity) are gifts infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them  capable of acting as his children and meriting eternal life.  

The Cardinal Virtues are Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. These human virtues are stable dispositions of the intellect and will that govern our acts, order our passions, and guide our conduct in accordance with reason and faith. 

The laity, consecrated religious and ordained ministers are called to join in the work and prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is the daily public prayer of the Church, prayed at regular intervals throughout the day.  

The Church marks time with a Liturgical Calendar, in order to sanctify our days. 

The Bishop calls the faithful to "full, active and conscious participation" in the Liturgy; especially, the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration, the central liturgical action of the faithful. 

The Seven Sacraments are celebrated as part of the Liturgical work of the Church and help the faithful to lead lives directed towards Jesus Christ. 

The liturgy has undergone changes throughout the history of the Church in order to better serve the needs of the faithful. 

The message of justice and mercy in the Beatitudes is central to the New Covenant. 

The Old Testament and New Testament both contain scriptural stories that guide the faithful in living lives of justice and mercy. 

The Saints provide us with examples of how to live justly and with compassion for others. 

The Church gives us 7 points of Social Teaching by which to model our lives. 

The Magisterium has given us guidance in the form of encyclicals and letters to help us live just lives. 

Every disciple of Jesus Christ has a responsibility to serve those in need through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.