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free will. The basis for all your actions, good or bad. Helps you to express and develop your humanity, enabling you to love. Liberates you to develop your God-given talents in a responsible way so that you can live for other and for God. When this is impeded, personal responsibility for an action lessens.
Freedom
excessive freedom, selfish abuse of free will
license
A person who says one thing but does another, usually with regards to virtue or religious practice.
hypocrite
"Good news" specifically in the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Like, and John in the New Testament
Gospel
The 40 day Christian penitential season preceding Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday and end on Holy Thursday. Reminiscent of Jesus's 40 day desert experience. The highlights of this include fasting prayer and almsgiving
the social conditions present that allow members of a given society to fulfill their potential.
common good
God's intervention in your life whether to help you initially convert from a life of sinfulness to a life in Christ or to help you continue to live as a Christian disciple.
actual grace
Money or material wealth, the pursuit of which would be considered greed.
mammon
Kingdom of God
The Gospel passage that describes the suffering and death of Jesus in his final days. Typically read on palm Sunday and during the Triduum.
the law of Moses as summarized in the decalogue or the 10 commandments. Makes clear the many truths expressed in natural law that human reason can discover on its own; prepares us for Jesus
old law
The moral responsibility for one's actions, your actions belong to you
imputability
Experts on the law of Moses, taught a strict letter of the law. Jesus often clashes with them in the Gospels.
Pharisees
Jesus's Formula for happiness found on Matthew's Sermon on the Mount and Luke's Sermon on the Plain. This means supreme happiness especially the eternal happiness found in heaven. The person who lives this centers their life around serving other with total dependence on God.
Beatitudes
Latin for 3 great days. Includes Hoy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, marking the Earster Vigil.
Triduum
the law of the Gospel, perfection here on Earth of the divine law. It is the work of Christ and s most clearly expressed in the Sermon on the Mount or in John 15:12, "Love one another as I have loved you." It is the transformation of the laws of grace, freedom, and love.
New law
Moral responsibility for an evil action. Culpability assumes sufficient awareness and internal consent to the evil done. It is identified with formal guilt or sin.
culpability
Religious and civic leadership council of the 1st century Palestine Jews. Includes priests, pharisees, and saducees.
sanhedrin
Any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of the absolute, universal moral truths. a complete reliance on self without responsibility to God, other people or the environment.
moral relativism
The Evening Mass of the Lord's supper where the priest washes the feet of parishioners like Jesus washed the feet of his apostles. And we commemorate the institution of the Eucharist and the institution of the priesthood. Priests often renew their vow and there is adoration of the blessed sacrament afterwards.
Holy Thursday
Applies natural law to the members of a given society, for example driving laws. Civil law must follow natural law in order to be moral or they become unjust.
civil law
A cycle of sin, violence, and injustice caused by an individual's sin, often leading to structures of sin in a society.
social sin
A person who worships many gods or a religion outside the main religion of a community
Pagan
Serious break in your relationship with God that separates you from the grace of God. A grave infraction on the law of God. Mortal sin is personal sin that involves serious matter, sufficient reflection, and full consent of the will.
mortal sin
The day we remember Jesus's crucifixion and death, includes veneration of the cross.
Good Friday