 Jesuswas born around 4 BCE in Bethlehem in Judah,

but grew up in the little-known town of Natazeth,

southwest of the Lake of Galilee. His mother Mary
[Hebrew Miriam] was married to Joseph, a
construction worker and craftsman [ Greek tèktōn
].He may have younger brothers and sisters (Mark
6:3; Matthew 13:55-56).
 Love your Adonai
 Love your neighbor
for Him, this was the essence of Judaism, and of
what he wanted people to know.
 Christianity began initially as a Jewish sect, since Jesus of Nazareth aparently did
not intend to found a new religion separate from the ancient practice of what is
known as Judaism.
 Christians were not able to openly practuce their religion untl the Roman emperor
Constantine defeated Maxentius, his rival as Augustus of the Western halfnof the
Roman empire. He attributed his success to the favor and protection of the God of
Christians, who had manifested in a vision, appearing in the setting sunnas a cross
intertwined with the Greek letters X{chi} and P {rho} — the first two letters in the
Greek word for Christ.
 Roman emperor Theodosius the Great brought Constantine’s policy of uniting the
Empire with the church to its conclusion by imperial decree in 380 CE, making
Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire, which at this point stretched
from Spain in the west to as far as Mesopotamia (Iraq) in the east.
 Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great used the term Catholic as the
official religion of Roman Empire.

 Some years later, father Augustine of Hippo (influential church) used the
term Catholic to distinguish the true church from heretical groups.
The Latin phrase extra Ecclesiam nulla salus means "outside the Church there is no
salvation".[1][2] The 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church explained this as "all
salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is His Body."[3]This
expression comes from the writings of Saint Cyprian of Carthage, a bishop of the 3rd
century. The axiom is often used as shorthand for the doctrine that the Church is
necessary for salvation.
 Formal Catholic worship is ordered by means of the liturgy, which is regulated by
church authority. The celebration of the Eucharist, one of seven sacraments, is the
center of Catholic worship. The Church exercises control over additional forms of
personal prayer and devotion including the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and
Eucharistic adoration, declaring that they should all somehow derive from the
Eucharist and lead back to it.[9] The Church community consists of the ordained
clergy (consisting of the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate), the laity,
and those like monks and nuns living a consecrated life under their constitutions.