Religion
What is the Definition of Fortitude?
Cardinal Virtue that helps us continue when faced with difficulty.
What is Intercession?
A form of prayer in which we ask for God's help for others and the saints intercede for us in Heaven.
What is Justice?
Cardinal Virtue that helps us give God and neighbor their due.
Mortal Sin?
Serious sin that we choose to commit even though we know it's wrong, it separates us from God and completely rejects his love for us.
Sin?
A deliberate offense against God and is something we say, think, do, or fail to do that's against the internal law of God and is a failure to love God and neighbor.
Temperance?
Cardinal Virtue that helps us avoid sin and find the right balance between too much or too little of the good things in life.
What is Virtue?
The habit of doing what is good, we build virtues though our own efforts and with God's grace.
Theological Virtues?
Gifts infused by God into the souls if the faithful to make them capable of acting as His children and of meriting eternal life, they are faith, hope, and charity(or love).
The Great Commandments?
Jesus' teaching that "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind," and "you shall love your neighbor as yourself." These two commandments are a summary of all Ten Commandments.
What is the Holy Spirit?
The third Person of the Holy Trinity, He proceeds from the Father and the Son and is worshiped and glorified as fully God. The Holy Spirit fills us with His gifts and guides us to holiness in the Church.
Our Father?
Also called the Lord's Prayer, is the prayer Jesus gave to His apostles during the Sermon on the Mount and contains seven petitions asking for the coming of God's Kingdom and our physical and spiritual needs.
Prudence?
Cardinal Virtue that helps us have to have right reason and put it into action. It helps us make the right decision at the right time and find the best way to achieve a good outcome.
Rosary?
Special prayer in which we reflect on the Joyful, Sorrowful, Luminous, and Glorious Mysteries - important events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. A string of beads is usually used to aid the prayer.
Sacrament?
Sign of God's grace that gives the grace it signifies. Jesus found the 7 sacraments: Confirmation, Baptism, Holy Orders, Holy Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Matrimony.
What is Baptism?
The first sacrament we receive, it makes us members of the Church and gives us a new life in Christ by forgiving our sins, which is necessary for salvation.
Cardinal Virtues
Virtues acquired by human effort, they are key moral virtues that allow other moral virtues to group around. They're the fruit and seed of morally good acts and help prepare the powers of human beings for communion with God's love. The 4 are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
Chastity
Moral virtue that helps us manage or control our desire for bodily and spiritual pleasure the way God intended. It involves self-mastery of lovey-dovey feelings. Also a virtue that helps choose what is best for others.
What is Apostolic Succession?
Handing on of apostolic preaching and authority from the Apostles to successors through the laying of hands. Fourth mark of the Church is that it's apostolic, meaning it's built on the lasting foundation of the Apostles.
What is the Definition of Church?
Communion of the faithful, those that died are in Heaven with God, angels, and saints. They are in the state of purification in Purgatory. The Church was found by Jesus and will exist until the end of time. The Church is at the same time human and divine, she is the mystical Body of Christ and Temple of the Holy Spirit, who gives life to the Body of Christ and unties its members.
Confirmation
The Sacrament of Initiation strengthens the outpouring of the Holy Spirit received in Baptism. It gives us special strength to spread and protect our Catholic Faith. It involves a bishop laying his hands up on the person and pray for God's blessing, and anoint the person with holy oil as a sign of the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Lent?
The liturgical season in which we focus on the Paschal Mystery by reflecting upon Jesus' life, Passion, Death, Resurrection, and how He redeemed us of our sins. During Lent we do Penance and prepare our hearts to receive salvation won for us by Christ. The color of this season is violet, or purple for Penance and humility.
Liturgical Year
A calendar that charts the various seasons, remembrances, feasts, celebrations in the life of the Church over the course of a year. The liturgical yer begins with Advent and includes the seasons of Christmas, Lent, Holy Week or Triduum, Easter, and the two larger periods of Ordinary Time