Valuable Vocabulary
The errant human desire to fill our infinite need for God with created things
What is concupiscence?
Thriller, Beat it, Smooth Criminal
Who is Michael Jackson?
This saint famously said "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
Who is Saint Augustine?
The movement within a soul that causes the soul to be inflamed with love for God.
What is spiritual consolation?
This author wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Who is Harper Lee?
To be caved in on oneself
What is sin?
Someone you loved, Before you go, Wish you the best
Lewis Capaldi
This Spanish saint was wounded in a battle in Pamplona, and experienced a profound conversion while reading the Bible and the Lives of the Saints from his bed.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Loyola?
A movement within the soul that causes the soul to feel distant from God, tepid, and sad.
What is spiritual desolation?
His novel, 1984, is a brilliant and disturbing look at human dysfunction and dystopia.
Who is George Orwell?
To will the good of the other, as other.
What is love? (Baby don't hurt me no more)
Birds of a feather, Wildflower, When the Party's Over
Billie Eilish
This Italian teenager made a website cataloguing a list of recorded Eucharistic miracles.
Who is Saint Carlo Acutis?
The deadly sin by which we turn ourselves into God.
What is pride?
What is "The Raven?"
Looking back on a past action and concluding "that wasn't very good."
What is guilt?
Thunder Rolls, Friends in Low Places, Calling Baton Rouge
Who is Garth Brooks?
This newly canonized Italian saint climbed mountains and died in his 20s.
Who is Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati?
The virtue of being rooted in the truth of who you are and who God made you to be.
What is humility?
This Shirley Jackson short story is a disturbing look at the oddity of traditions and the horror of human sacrifice.
What is "The Lottery?"
Looking back on a past action and concluding "I'm no good."
What is shame?
Master of Puppets, Enter Sandman, One
Who is Metallica?
This saint survived being tortured by a native tribe in North America, returned to Europe, and then went back to North America to try again to convert the tribe and was tortured and martyred.
Who is Saint Isaac Jogues?
The main component of bacterial cell walls, consisting of alternating units of N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylmuramic acid.
What is peptidoglycan?
This John Steinbeck novel portrays the Joad family migrating to California during the Great Depression.
What is "The Grapes of Wrath?"