Types of Grace
The supernatural gift that God, of His free benevolence, bestows on rational creatures (angels and men) for their eternal salvation.
What is Grace?
The theological principle that everything in creation—people, movements, places, the environment, and the cosmos itself—can reveal God.
What is Sacramentality/The Sacramental Principle?
The following are examples of which type of charism: hospitality, encouragement (exhortation), and teaching).
What is an Ordinary Charism?
The term for the second person of the Trinity prior to his Incarnation. This also means "Word" in Greek.
What is Logos?
This council took place between October 11, 1962 – December 8, 1965.
What is the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II
The grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament.
What is Sacramental Grace?
An efficacious sign of grace instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church by which Divine life is dispensed to us.
What is a Sacrament?
The following are examples of which type of charism: miraculous healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues.
What is an Extraordinary Charism?
This word means "First" or "Original".
What is Primordial?
The following comes from which encyclical:
“The Church is in Christ like a sacrament or as a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race.”
What is Lumen Gentium?
God’s interventions, whether at the beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification.
What is Actual Grace?
A deeper, elevated kind of sign. It points beyond its physical self to a deeper, transcendent or spiritual reality.
What is a Symbol?
The following is an example of what: water, oil, wine, bread.
What is Sacramental Matter?
The steps by which Christ conquered Sin and Death via his Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension to the Father.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
The following comes from which encyclical:
“The name for that deep amaze at man’s worth and dignity is the Gospel, that is to say: the Good News. It is also called Christianity.”
What is Redemptor Hominis?
An habitual gift, and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God, to act by his love.
What is Sanctifying Grace?
A sensible reality that communicates meaning or whose presence or occurrence indicates the presence or occurrence of something else.
What is a Sign?
The following is an example of what:
“This is my Body…” and
“This is the chalice of my Blood…”
What is Sacramental Form?
The following quote comes from this Gospel:
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
What is the Gospel of John?
The following comes from which encyclical:
"For it was from the side of Christ as He slept the sleep of death upon the cross that there came forth the wondrous sacrament of the whole Church.”
What is Sacrosanctum Concilium?
Special graces….oriented toward sanctifying grace and intended for the common good of the Church. They are at the service of charity which builds up the Church.
What is Charismatic Grace?
In sacramental theology, this figure is the Principal Efficient Cause because He is the ultimate source of grace, while this figure acts as the Instrumental Efficient Cause because he is the visible tool used to communicate that grace.
Who is Jesus Christ (Principal Cause) and the Human Priest (Instrumental Cause)?
This book of the bible outlines the theology of the Mystical Body of Christ as well as the different types of spiritual gifts/charisms available to all baptized Christians.
What is 1st Corinthians?
Name two motivatations for why God became a man OR two reasons why we can appropriately call Jesus a sacrament.
Motives for the Incarnation:
To save us by reconciling us with God
That we might intimately know God’s unconditional love
To be our ultimate model of human holiness
To make us partakers of the divine nature
Reasons why we can call Jesus a Sacrament:
A sacrament is a personal encounter with God (becomes a visible sign of God's invisible grace)
Jesus' works are an efficacious means of grace
Jesus instituted the seven sacraments
The following comes from which encyclical:
“The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light.”
What is Gaudium et Spes?