Sacraments
The first sacrament one receives when entering the Catholic Faith. It is a sacrament of initiation.
Baptism
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Trinity (Sign of the Cross)
The current pope of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis
The four authors of the Gospels of the New Testament.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
A traditional Catholic prayer type that seeks to honor Mary, the mother of Jesus, meditating on the moments in the life of Jesus and Mary. Done with beads.
Rosary
The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ truly present on the altar under the appearances of bread and wine. Offered at every Mass.
Eucharist/Communion
Honors Mary, the Mother of God, and asks for her intercession with the Lord for blessings in this life and the next.
Hail Mary
God's gift to human beings of the freedom to choose between good and evil.
Free Will
Special days in the liturgical year in addition to all Sunday's on which we are obligated to attend mass.
Holy Days of Obligation
T/F: We worship Mary.
Admitting our sins to the priest and he gives absolution from them.
Confession
Lord's Prayer or The Perfect Prayer, said at every mass.
Our Father
The two types of sin.
Venial and Mortal
Number of apostles Jesus had during his earthy ministry.
12
Church doctrine that Mary was taken body and soul into heaven at the end of her life.
Assumption
Completes our incorporation into the life of the Church. Sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Confirmation
Form of silent prayer using our thoughts emotions and desires to listen to what God is asking of us.
Meditation
A final purification from Sin for those who die in God's friendship. Not heaven or hell.
Purgatory
The suffering Jesus endured before his death on the cross.
Passion
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved free from the effects of original sin from the first instant of her conception.
Immaculate conception
Holy Orders
Prayer where we apologize for our sins, promise to do better, and ask for God's forgiveness.
Act of Contrition
The first and the last letters in the greek alphabet used as a title for Jesus, who is the beginning and the end, who always was and always will be.
Alpha and Omega
Process in which the priest, through the working of the Holy Spirit, turns the bread and wine used for Communion into the body and blood of Jesus Christ
Transubstantiation
Name of the Angel that told Mary she was going to have a son, Jesus, the son of God.
Gabriel