vocab 1
Actual graces
God's interventions and support for us in the everyday moments of our lives. Actual graces are important for conversion and for continuing growth of holiness.
Liturgy
The Church’s official, public, communal prayer. It is God’s work, in which the People of God participate. The Church’s most important liturgy is the Eucharist, or the Mass.
Liturgical Year
The Church’s annual cycle of feasts and seasons that celebrates the events and mysteries of Christ’s birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension, and forms the contexts for the Church’s worship.
Which Sacrament do we receive the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ?
hat are the 7 Liturgical Seasons ( IN ORDER)
Advent
Christmas
Ordinary Time
Lent
Paschal Triduum
Easter
Ordinary Time ( after pentacost)
liturgy of the hours
Also known as the Divine Office, the official, public, daily prayer of the Catholic Church. The Divine Office provides standard prayers, Scripture readings, and reflections at regular hours throughout the day.
Trinity
Often referred to as The Blessed Trinity, the central Christian mystery and dogma that there is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Ritual
The established form of the words and actions for the ceremony that is repeated often.
Through what Sacrament are we adopted as God's sons and daughters.
Baptism
List the 7 sacraments
Baptism
Reconciliation
Holy Communion
Confirmation
Matrimony
Holy Orders
Anointing of the Sick
Sanctifying Grace
The grace that heals our human nature wounded by sin and restores us to friendship with God by giving us a share in the divine life of the Trinity. It is a super natural gift of God, infused into our souls by the Holy Spirit, that continues the works of making us holy.
Sacrament
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.
symbol
An object or action that points to another reality and leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery.
Through which Sacrament do you become a priest?
Through the Sacrament of the Holy Orders.
How can we encourage our daily communication with God?
Healing, strength, protection, petition and devotion
sacramental economy
The communication or dispensation of the fruits of Christ’s Paschal Mystery in the celebration of the Church's sacramental liturgy.
Redemption
From the Latin redemptio, meaning “a buying back”, referring, in the Old Testament, to Yahweh’s deliverance of Israel and, in the New Testament, to Christ’s deliverance of all Christians from the forces of sin. As the agent of redemption, Jesus is called the Redeemer.
Redemption
From the Latin redemptio, meaning “a buying back”, referring, in the Old Testament, to Yahweh’s deliverance of Israel and, in the New Testament, to Christ’s deliverance of all Christians from the forces of sin. As the agent of redemption, Jesus is called the Redeemer.
What is the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick?
What are the 5 forms of prayer that have arisen in the church?
Blessing or adoration
petition
intercession
thanksgiving
praise
Anamnesis
It is the Greek word for “memory”. In the Eucharist, it refers to the making present of the Paschal Mystery, Christ’s work of Salvation. It also refers to a particular section of the Eucharistic Prayer after the words of institution in which the Church remembers Christ’s saving deeds- his Passion, death, Resurrection, and glorious return.
Magisterium
the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church, held by the Pope and bishops in union with him
Deposit of Faith
The deposit of faith is the whole body of Christ's saving revelation, comprising everything God revealed to humanity and entrusted to the Church for safeguarding and proclamation.
What type of Sacrament is Confirmation?
Sacrament of Initiation
What does the Church reflect on during Ordinary Time?
The church reflects on the life of Jesus Christ-- His mission, his miracles, and his teachings.