Chapter 19

We Believe: Chapter 19 - God Fulfills His Promise

The Students will learn:

• • Mary is blessed by God.

  • Mary and Elizabeth have special roles in God’s plan.

  • God the Son became man

  • John prepared the way for Jesus.

Faith Words:

Incarnation- the truth that the Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, became man.

• 1. In the town of Nazareth in Galilee, an angel of God gave a message to a young girl named Mary

  2. The fulfillment of all that God had promised through the prophets began with Mary’s choice to Follow of God’s plan.

  3. Mary would give birth to a child conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  4. An angel of the Lord came to Joseph, a descendant of King David, in a dream.

  5. God called Mary and her relative, Elizabeth, to take their roles in his plan to save his people.

  6. In response to Elizabeth’s joyful words, Mary praised God in a song. Mary’s song, or canticle, is also known as the Magnificat.

  7. Because of Zachariah’s disbelief that his wife would bear a child, he lost the ability to speak and would not speak until his son was born.

  8. Elizabeth gave birth to a son, and Zechariah named him John.

  9. Like the prophets before him, John would prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.

  10. Mary gave birth to her son in Bethlehem, fulfilling the words of the prophet Micah.

  11. Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem of Judea for the census.

  12. The Incarnation is the truth that the Son of God, the second Person of Blessed Trinity, became man.

  13. Jesus grew up with Mary and Joseph in Nazareth.

  14. When Jesus was twelve he went to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover in the Temple.

  15. The significance about Jesus’ visit to Jerusalem when he was twelve years old was that He stayed behind in Jerusalem listening and questioning the teachers in the Temple.

  16. The story of the finding of Jesus in the Temple is important because we learn Jesus is a faithful and obedient child and had a deep understanding and knowledge of God.

  17. We do not learn much about Jesus’ life until he was about thirty years old.

  18. Since people came to be baptized by John in the Jordan River, he became known as John the Baptist.

  19. After Jesus was baptized by John and began praying, the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove.

Some of the things that changed in Judea during the “hidden years” of Jesus were Caesar Augustine in Rome and Rome slowly taking over Judea.