Liturgy
An image or object with a deeper meaning.
What is a symbol?
Established form of words and actions for a ceremony that is often repeated. The actions have symbolic meaning.
What is a ritual?
The gift of God's loving and active presence in our lives.
What is Grace?
The reason we celebrate Mass on Sunday.
Because it is the day Jesus rose from the dead.
In the Catechism definition of Sacrament, what does "instituted by Christ" mean?
That Jesus Christ created and instructed the Apostles in the Sacraments. You can find them all in the bible.
The Church's annual cycle of feasts and seasons that form the Church's worship.
What is the Liturgical Year?
The collective name for the 3 Divine Persons of God.
What is the Trinity?
The grace that heals our human nature, wounded by sin, and restore us to friendship with God.
What is Sanctifying Grace?
God's interventions an support for us in the everyday moments of our lives.
What are Actual Graces?
In the catechism definition of sacrament, what is meant by "Entrusted to the Church"?
The Church is given the authority to celebrate the sacraments and to clarify their meaning and the teaching surrounding them to the world.
The authority of Jesus Christ is given to the Apostles and then passed down to the current bishops through_____.
What is Apostolic Succession?
The holiday celebrating the exodus from egypt and the new life the Israelites found in the Promised Land of Canaan.
What is Passover?
Define Sacramental.
What is a sacred sign instituted by the Church that prepare us to receive God's grace?
The power of something to cause the desired effect. The sacraments bring about the spiritual reality they signify.
What is efficacious?
In the definition of Sacrament in the Catechism, what is meant by "efficacious signs of God's Grace"?
That sacraments actually work to bring about the offer of God's grace, which is a gift of sharing in God's divine life and love.
Definition of the Paschal Mystery.
What is work of salvation accomplished by Christ's Passion, death, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ?
The Church's official, public, communal prayer.
What is Liturgy?
What is an efficacious and visible sign of God's Grace?
The buying back of humanity from original sin.
What is redemption?
In the definition of sacrament in the Catechism, what is meant by the sacraments" bear fruit"?
The sacraments are efficacious, so they work. The work of the sacraments is evident in the actions of those who receive them, including but not limited to showing the fruits of the Holy Spirit such as love, generosity, peace etc.
The ___________ connects all things in heaven and on earth.
What is Liturgy or Mass?
The reason ordinary time is called ordinary.
What is the Sundays are counted using ordinal numbers?
A sacred sign instituted by the Church that remind us of and point to God, but do not guarantee grace. Example: holy water or blessed ashes
What is a sacramental?
Clarified the 7 sacraments and stressed transubstantiation, in response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
In the definition of sacrament in the Catechism, what is meant by "in those with the required disposition"?
The required disposition for the sacraments to bear fruit is that the person receiving the sacrament must be filled with faith and open to letting the grace of God work in their life.