Liturgical Year
The season that begins the Liturgical year.
What is Advent?
Jesus taught us that we must love our neighbor by performing these acts that meet a person's physical needs.
What are the corporal works of mercy?
A less serious sin that hurtys our relationship with God, but does not destroy it.
What is venial?
The moral virtue that helps us manage or control our desires for bodily and spiritual pleasure in the way that God intended.
What is chastity?
The third mark of the Church. THis means that the Church is for everyone, all people in every time and place. It is universal.
What is catholic?
The season in which we focus on the Paschal Mystery.
What is Lent?
The handing on of the teachings and authority given to the Apostles to their successors in faith, the Bishops. This is one of the marks of the Church.
What is Apostolic Succession?
A serious sin that we choose to commit even though we know it is wrong. This breaks our relationship with God and completely rejects His love for us.
What is mortal sin?
Gifts infused by God into the souls of the faithfulto make them capable of acting as his childrenand of meriting eternal life. (THere are three of them.)
What are the Theological virtues, or faith, hope and love?
The fourth mark of the Church, which means that the Church is built on the teachings of the Apostles.
What is Apostolic?
The day when Jesus sent the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles.
What is Pentecost?
The whole content of Christian faith formed by Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition together.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
These are the Great Commandments given to us by Jesus. They are a summary of the Ten Commandments.
What is "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." and "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."?
Virtues acquired by human effort. They are the key moral virtues which all other moral virtues are grouped around. There are four of them.
What are the Cardinal virtues or prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance?
We recite this prayer stating what we believe when we pray the Rosary.
What is the Apostle's Creed?
This is the summit (or high point) of the Liturgical Year. It begins with the Mass of the Lord's Supper, the Good Friday Service of the Lord's Passion and ends with the Easter Vigil.
What is the Triduum?
The teaching of the Church on the truth of revelation about human dignity, human solidarity, the principles of justice and peace, and moral judgementsabout economic and social matters.
What are Catholic Social Teachings?
These, given to us by Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount, teach us how to be truly happy. They are aperfection of the Ten Commandments.
What are the Beatitudes?
A Cardinal Virtue that helps us continue when faced with difficulty.
What is fortitude?
We recite this staement of faith at every Sunday Mass.
What is the Nicene Creed?
This Feast marks the end of the Church Year.
What is the Feast of Christ the King?
The teaching authority of the Church and those who exercise that Authority. All of the world's bishops in union with the Pope.
What is the Magisterium?
The gift God gave human beings to be able to use reason in order to judge right from wrong.
What is conscience?
A Cardinal Virtue that helps us give God and neighbor their due.
What is Justice?
This word, used in the Creed, states that we believe that Jesus and God the Father are truly one.
What is consubstantial?