Mills Ch. 6 Flashcards
GRACE
The free and undeserved gift of God to respond to one’s vocation to become his adopted son or daughter.
ACTUAL GRACE
This supernatural, free, and undeserved help from God is given in specific circumstances to help choose the good and avoid evil
HOLINESS
Principally an attribute of God describing his complete separation from the sphere of the profane. Individual human beings may become holy by dedicating themselves completely to God. Holiness is the perfection of charity.
Universal Call to Holiness
Principally an attribute of God describing his complete separation from the sphere of the profane. Individual human beings may become holy by dedicating themselves completely to God. Holiness is the perfection of charity.
SANIT
A person on earth, in Purgatory, or in Heaven notable for holiness and heroic virtue. The saints share in God’s life, glory, and happiness. The Church may officially declare someone a saint through the process of beatification and canonization
LAW OF LOVE
Christ taught his followers to love God above all else and love their neighbors as themselves. This teaching elevated and perfected the Old Law.
CONSCIENCE
The inner voice of a human being, in whose heart is inscribed the Law of God. Moral conscience is a judgment of practical reason about the moral quality of a human action that a person may do, is in the process of doing, or has already done.
NATURAL LAW
The objective order established by God that determines the requirements for people to thrive and reach fulfillment.
PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH
Duties required by the Catholic Church of her members in order to ensure a certain minimum in their spiritual and moral lives.