Days numbered with ordinal numbers; first block btwn Christmas & Lent; Second block btwn Pentecost & Advent; color = green (hope)
What is ordinary time?
100
Lifting up one's heart and mind to God or the requesting of good things from him
What is prayer?
100
Responsible, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, for interpreting the deposit of faith
What is the Magisterium?
100
From the Latin word redemption meaning "a buying back"; referring to Yahweh's deliverance of Israel in the Old Testament and to Christ's deliverance of all Christians from the forces of sin in the New Testament
What is Redemption?
200
Penance and Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick
What are the Sacraments of Healing?
200
the annual cycle of religious feasts and seasons that forms the context for the Catholic Church's worship-- Universal Church throughout world celebrates Paschal Mystery; Celebrates God's time; therefore timeless
What is the liturgical year?
200
Religious reverence of devotion
What is piety?
200
the Church's official, public, communal prayer; God's work in which the people of God participate; Catholic Church's most important liturgy = the Eucharist
What is Liturgy?
200
God's interventions and support for us in the everyday moments of our lives. Actual graces are important for conversion and for continuing growth in holiness
What are actual graces?
300
Holy Orders and Matrimony
What are the Sacraments at the Service of Communion?
300
Recall Christ's Passion; most solemn & reflective time of year; color = purple (penance); prayer, fasting, almsgiving
What is Lent?
300
A living relationship with God and is essential for a believer and follower of Christ?
What is personal prayer?
300
Scripture and Tradition form this, through translating the word of God
What is the Deposit of Faith?
300
habitual gift that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God
What is sanctifying grace?
400
An efficacious and visible sign of God's grace; instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us
What is Sacrament?
400
Word made Flesh; Incarnation; Birth of Jesus; Begins December 25 and goes until the Solemnity of the Baptism of The Lord; color = white or gold (joy)
What is Christmas?
400
Vocal Prayer, Meditation, and Contemplation
What are the three major expressions of prayer?
400
Refers to the process of passing on the Gospel message; vegan with oral communication by Apostles, written down in Scriptures, handed down and lived out in the Church, and interpreted by the Magisterium under guidance of Holy Spirit
What is tradition?
400
An object or actions that points to another reality; it leads us to look beyond our sense to consider a deeper mystery
What is a symbol?
500
The sacraments are effective, signs of grace, and were instituted by Christ and entrusted in the Church?
What are the three aspects of the sacraments?
500
Begins liturgical year, time of preparation before Christmas, color = purple (to signify waiting)
What is Advent?
500
Blessing and Adoration, Petition, Intercession, Thanksgiving, and Praise
What are the various forms of prayer (5)?
500
From the Latin word trinius, meaning "threefold," referring to the central mystery of the Christian faith that God exists as a communion of three distinct and interrelated Divine Persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
What is the Trinity?
500
the established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often; often has symbolic meaning in it's actions