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A word for daddy
What is Abba
A world view whereby one attributes meaningfulness to life through one’s capacity and ability to purchase and consume economic goods.
What is Consumerism?
The first ecumenical council of the Church held in modern–day Turkey in the year 325. From this council, the Nicene Creed was born.
What is the Council of Nicea?
A meeting of Catholic bishops from 1545 – 1563 to clarify and define Catholic teaching, especially in contrast to Protestantism. This council became the embodiment of what is often referred to as the Counter-Reformation
What is the Council of Trent?
is like a treaty or an alliance, but is more as God serves as its guarantor. Covenants have conditions, are sealed with a ceremony, and are celebrated with both parties present. God’s covenant is a bond of love that calls to us in our freedom to respond in love. The term covenant is used in sacred scripture to express the relationship between God and the Chosen People and is best expressed by the phrase in Jer. 31: 33: “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
What is Covenant?
In the sacrament of reconciliation, the priest absolves the penitent from his/her sins. _______is the remission of sins pronounced by the priest
What is Absolution?
the set of meanings, beliefs, values and rules for living shared by groups and societies as the source of their identity.
What is Culture?
Government by the will of all the people, a will that is expressed directly through freely elected representation. To protect all people within society from tyranny of the majority, democracies must recognize and guarantee the rights of the minority. A democracy that is ruled strictly by the majority without protecting the rights of the minority would quickly degenerate into a system of class or privilege that no longer reflects the will of the governed.
What is Democracy?
A point of view that holds that human behavior is a product, not of free will, but of a complex array of physical, social, cultural, psychological and historical causes. In such a theory, morality does not exist because choice does not exi
What is Determinism?
as human persons is rooted in our creation in the image and likeness of God.
What is Dignity?
to discern is to perceive clearly; in a discernment process one seeks to know the right from the wrong, seeks to know what is good, seeks the truth.
What is Discernment?
seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.
What is Divination?
a term used to describe general Church teachings.
What is Doctrine?
a term used to describe what are seen as fundamental truths of Revelation to be held by all Catholics.
What is Dogma?
Word used in Genesis to describe humankind’s rule over creation, so that right order may be achieved. Humans are called to exercise dominion – not domination – over the earth, a dominion of service, wisdom, and love (stewardship).
What is Domination?
originates from a Greek word meaning “to send a message.” In the New Testament, epistles are the name for twenty-one formal letters.
What is Epistles?
Greek rooted term relating to good character; a discipline dealing with the nature of the good and of the human person in relationship to goodness (*see goodness). Ethics can be differentiated from action-based morality (*see morality). We come to a search for what is good – ethics – through a variety of human experiences, that is, humans seem to be naturally inclined to ethics, or a pursuit of goodness. We see this in 4 types of experiences
What is Ethics
is not simply to teach a doctrine, but to proclaim Jesus Christ by one’s words and actions. Evangelization may involve humility and/or zeal, and is differentiated from proselytization in that it is carried out in fashion aligned with the spirit of the Gospels respecting the dignity and freedom of others.
What is Evangalism?
The analysis of texts in their original context. Uncovering the historical, cultural, linguistic, etc., particularities that the original author was dealing with in order to better understand the original meaning and intent of a text. (ie – Biblical or Scriptural exegesis which seeks to determine both literal and spiritual meanings from Bible texts).
What is Exegesis?
is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility.
What is Freedom/Free Will?
A person who is not part of the Jewish faith, or not of Jewish ancestry.
What is Gentile?
God is the source of all that is good. Human beings, by their nature and vocation, are directed toward the good. Coming from God, and going toward God, human beings live fully human lives only if they freely live in communion with God. Goodness, then, is the result of being “connected” with God, as branches to a vine. (see John 15: 1-17)
What is Goodness?
Literally meaning “Good News”, it is the unique literary genre that proclaims the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of the living faith of particular early Church communities
What is Gospel?
refers to a structure or institution (such as the Roman Catholic Church) in which there is a gradation from higher to lower levels of importance or power or authority.
What is Hierarchy?
Permanence. The sacrament of marriage is dissolved only in death.
What is Indissolubility?