A. They shall be punished for ever in the flames of hell. Q. W Ill faith alone save us? A. No; it will not without good works. Q. Can we do any good work towards our salvation, of ourselves? A. No; we cannot without the help of God's grace. Q. How may we obtain God's grace ? ments. Q. What is prayer? A. It is the raising up of our mind to God. Q. What think you of those who at their prayers think not of God, nor of what they say? A. If these distractions are wilful, such prayers, instead of pleasing God, offend him. Q. Which is the best of all prayers ? Q. Q. Who made the Lord's prayer ? A. Christ our Lord. Q. Say the Lord's prayer? A. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven: give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Q. Who is it that is here called, Our Father? A. God, who made us all, and who by his grace, is the Father of all good Christians. Q. Why do you say, Our Father, and not My Father? for A.. Bacause we are not to pray ourselves alone, but for all others. Q. What do we pray for, when we say, Hallowed be thy nome? A. That God may be honoured and served by all his creatures. Q. What means, Thy kingdom come? A. We pray that God may come, and be king in all our hearts by his grace, and bring us all hereafter to his heavenly kingdom. ९. Q. What means, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven? A. That God would enable us by his grace, to do his will in all things as the blessed do in heaven. Q. What means our daily bread? Give us this day A. We beg by these words all necessaries for soul and body. Q. What means, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us? A. We beg that God will forgive us our sins as we forgive others the injuries they do us. Q. What means; Lead us not inte temptation? A. That God would give us grace not to yield to temptation. Q. What means, Deliver us from evil? A. We beg that God will free us from all evil of soul and body. Q. May we desire the saints and augels to pray for us? A. Yes; we may. Q. How do you prove that the saints and angels can hear us? A. There shall be joy before the an gels gels of God over one sinner that repents St. Luke, c. xv. ver. 10. Q. What is the prayer to our blessed Lady, which the church teaches us ? A. The Hail Mary. Q. Say the Hail Mary? A. Hail, Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Q. How many parts are there in the Hail Mary? A. Three parts. Q. Who made the two first parts? A. The angel Gabriel and St. Elizabeth, inspired by the Holy Ghost. Q. Who made the third part? A. The church of God; against those who denied the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of God. Q. Why say you the Hail Mary so often? A. To put us in mind of the Son of God being made man for us. Q. For what other reason? A. To honour the blessed Virgin, Q. Who gave the ten commandments? A. God himself in the old law, and Christ confirmed them in the new. Q. Which is the first commandment? A. I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thy. self any graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth; thou shalt not adore them, or serve them. Q. What are we commanded by this? A. To believe, hope, love, and serve one true and living God, and no more. Q. What is forbidden by this commandment? |