Chapter 1 vocab
Spiritual creatures, created by God with intelligence and will, who surpass humans in perfection. They are personal and immortal creatures.
Angels
The deliberate killing of unborn human life by means of medical or surgical procedures. Direct abortion is gravely wrong because it is an unjustified attack on human life.
Abortion
The official body of rules (canons) that provides for good order in the Catholic Church.
canon law
The total rejection of Jesus Christ (and the Christian faith) by a baptized Catholic.
apostasy
Definition of Beatitude
Beatitude means “supreme happiness,” especially the eternal happiness of heaven, which is described as the vision of God, or entering into God’s rest.
The “sum total of social conditions that allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily”
Common Good
The moral virtue that inclines you to discern a good, ethical, and moral life and to choose the means to accomplish it
prudence
The free and undeserved help that God gives you to respond to his supernatural call to become his adoptive sons and daughters, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life. Grace is a participation in the intimacy of God’s own Trinitarian life, offered from the Father, through the Son, and in the Holy Spirit.
Grace
The contemplation of God in heavenly glory; the source of our eternal happiness (or beatitude); the final union with the Triune God for all eternity.
Beatific Vision
Evangelize
To bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to others by what you say and how you live, in fulfillment of Christ’s command.
Disordered human desires resulting from Original Sin that produce an inclination to sin, also expressed as “the rebellion of the ‘flesh’ against the ‘spirit’”
concupiscence
A gift of the Holy Spirit whereby “the pope and bishops in union with him can definitively proclaim a doctrine of faith or morals for the belief of the faithful”
infallibility
The grace of the Holy Spirit to justify you—that is, to cleanse you from your sins and to communicate to you the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ and through Baptism.
justification
The eight blessings preached by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that teach you about the supreme happiness in heaven to which God calls you and confront you with decisive choices in order to purify your heart so that you can love God above all things. Beatitude means “supreme happiness,” especially the eternal happiness of heaven, which is described as the vision of God, or entering into God’s rest.
Beatitudes
Theological Virtues
Faith, hope, and love.
“The power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility”
Free Will
The four pivotal virtues that support moral living: prudence (“right reason in action”), justice (giving God and each person his or her due by right), fortitude (courage to persist in living a Christian life), and temperance (moderation in controlling desires for physical pleasures).
cardinal virtues
Any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of absolute, universal moral truths.
moral relativism
Perfections the Holy Spirit forms in you as the first fruits of eternal glory. The twelve fruits are charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity
fruits of the Holy Spiri
Discipleship
The mandate of all baptized Christians to follow Jesus and participate in his role as priest, prophet, and king.
The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well (or better).
subsidiarity
A decision-making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice. The Holy Spirit aids you in distinguishing between trials
discernment
A guideline or law that can help regulate human freedom toward what is true and good and, therefore, toward God.
norm
Charitable actions that are centered around caring for the physical needs of others. They include feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, sheltering the homeless, and burying the dead.
corporal works of mercy
The 2 parts in Repentance
Faith and Grace