Vocabulary1
A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being involving mutual commitments or guarantees.
What is a covenant?
The solemn declaration by the Pope that a deceased member of the faithful may be proposed as a model and intercessor to the Christian faithful and venerated on the basis of the fact that the person lived a life of heroic virtue or remained faithful to God through martydom.
What is canonization?
A complete giving-f-self, shown perfectly in the life of the Divine Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
What is communion of persons?
The personal sin of the first two people, called Adam and Eve, which in an analogous ay to describes the fallen state of human nature into which all generations are born.
What is Original Sin?
The capacity to choose among alternatives. It is "the power, rooted in reason and will... to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibilty."
What is free will?
The state of being set apart for God.
What is holiness?
A way to describe two realities that belong together, producing a whole that neither is nor can stand alone.
What is complementarity?
"An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is" given to those who receive it, "through the work of the Holy Spirit."
What is a sacrament?
The specific path God has for someone on his path to holiness. It is marked by vows and/ or sacrament.
What are primary vocation (state of life)?
All baptized faithful except those who have received the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
What is the laity?
The body of saving truths and core beliefs of Catholicism thar are contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition and faithfully preserved and handed on by the Magisterium.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
The disobedience of Adam and Eve, which introduced sin, death, and their effects into the world.
What is "the Fall"?
The calling or destiny one has in this life and hereafter.
What is a vocation?
The public profession of poverty, chastity, and obedience is constitutive element of state of consecrated life in the Church.
What are the evangelical counsels?
A specific gift or grace of the Holy Spirit which directly or indirectly benefits the Church, given in order to help a live out the Christian life, or to serve the common good in building up the Church.
What is a charism?
The call to all Christians, no matter their state of life, to be sanctified. It is based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount: "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt5:48)
What is the universal call to holiness?
Charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self- control, and chasity.
What are the fruits of the Holy Spirit?
The principle that encapsulates one's call to communion and self donation with another. It means that you can only discover your true self only through a sincere of self.
What is the law of self-giving?
Associations of laypersons who come together with a common purpose and way of life.
What is the lay ecclesial movements?
The official teaching authority of the Church. Jesus bestowed the right and power to teach in his name on Peter and the Apostles and their successors, that is the pope and the college of bishops.
What is the Magisterium?