Baltimore Catechism No. 1 (of 4) | Page 3

The Father is God and the first Person of
the Blessed Trinity.
25. Q. Is the Son God? A. The Son is God and the second Person of the
Blessed Trinity.
26. Q. Is the Holy Ghost God? A. The Holy Ghost is God and the third
Person of the Blessed Trinity.
27. Q. What is the Blessed Trinity? A. The Blessed Trinity is one God
in three Divine Persons.
29. Q. Are the three Divine Persons one and the same God? A. The
three Divine Persons are one and the same God, having one and the
same Divine nature.

LESSON FOURTH ON THE ANGELS AND OUR FIRST PARENTS
34. Q. Which are the chief creatures of God? A. The chief creatures of
God are men and angels.
35. Q. What are angels? A. Angels are bodiless spirits created to adore
and enjoy God in heaven.
39. Q. Who were the first man and woman? A. The first man and
woman were Adam and Eve.
40. Q. Were Adam and Eve innocent and holy when they came from
the hand of God? A. Adam and Eve were innocent and holy when they
came from the hand of God.
43. Q. Did Adam and Eve remain faithful to God? A. Adam and Eve
did not remain faithful to God; but broke His command by eating the
forbidden fruit.
44. Q. What befell Adam and Eve on account of their sin? A. Adam
and Eve, on account of their sin, lost innocence and holiness, and were
doomed to misery and death.
45. Q. What evil befell us through the disobedience of our first parents?
A. Through the disobedience of our first parents we all inherit their sin
and punishment, as we should have shared in their happiness if they
had remained faithful.
47. Q. What is the sin called which we inherit from our first parents? A.
The sin which we inherit from our first parents is called original sin.
50. Q. Was any one ever preserved from original sin? A. The Blessed
Virgin Mary, through the merits of her Divine Son, was preserved free

from the guilt of original sin, and this privilege is called her
Immaculate Conception.

LESSON FIFTH ON SIN AND ITS KINDS
51. Q. Is original sin the only kind of sin? A. Original sin is not the
only kind of sin; there is another kind of sin, which we commit
ourselves, called actual sin.
52. Q. What is actual sin? A. Actual sin is any wilful thought, word,
deed or omission contrary to the law of God.
53. Q. How many kinds of actual sin are there? A. There are two kinds
of actual sin--mortal and venial.
54. Q. What is mortal sin? A. Mortal sin is a grievous offense against
the law of God.
57. Q. What is venial sin? A. Venial sin is a slight offense against the
law of God in matters of less importance; or in matters of great
importance it is an offense committed without sufficient reflection or
full consent of the will.
59. Q. Which are the chief sources of sin? A. The chief sources of sin
are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth;
and they are commonly called capital sins.

LESSON SIXTH ON THE INCARNATION AND REDEMPTION
60. Q. Did God abandon man after he fell into sin? A. God did not
abandon man after he fell into sin, but promised him a Redeemer, who
was to satisfy for man's sin and reopen to him the gates of heaven.
61. Q. Who is the Redeemer? A. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ is the Redeemer of mankind.
62. Q. What do you believe of Jesus Christ? A. I believe that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, true
God and true man.
69. Q. What do you mean by the Incarnation? A. By the Incarnation I
mean that the Son of God was made man.
70. Q. How was the Son of God made man? A. The Son of God was
conceived and made man by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb
of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
74. Q. On what day was the Son of God conceived and made man? A.

The Son of God was conceived and made man on Annunciation
day--the day on which the Angel Gabriel announced to the Blessed
Virgin Mary that she was to be the Mother of God.
75. Q. On what day was Christ born? A. Christ was born on Christmas
day in a stable at Bethlehem, over nineteen hundred years ago.

LESSON SEVENTH ON OUR LORD'S PASSION, DEATH,
RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION
78. Q. What did Jesus Christ suffer? A. Jesus Christ suffered a bloody
sweat,