Relegion Flashcards

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Person hood

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The quality or condition of being an individual person

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Understanding:

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us know and understand the truths of our faith that are beyond our ability to know by ourselves. God’s grace helps us to get to the heart of the truth and to know and follow God’s will for us.

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Wisdom

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us respect and love God. It perfects our faith, because it helps us to see God for who he is.

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Piety

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us show reverence for holy things and for God. It helps us to have the right attitude toward God and to worship him because we love him.

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Knowledge

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us to know God’s plan for our lives and to act upon it. It helps us overcome our weakness, sins, and failures.

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Fear of the Lord:

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that inspires us to see God as he is, not who we think he might be in awe of his glory and might.

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Counsel:

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A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us to be more open to what our conscience is saying. It helps us to know right from wrong and to judge whether things will lead us to God or away from him.

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Love

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the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. Also called charity.

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Communion:

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Sharing of life with one another, we as a human family are called to imitate God who as trinity is a 3 of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by loving and serving God and by loving and serving one another.

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Contrition:

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a form of prayer in which we have true sorrow for our sins and ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness.

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Adoration:

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A form of prayer in which we worship God and express our love for him.

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Faith

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The theological virtue by which we believe in God and all that he has revealed to us, as well as all that his church teaches us to believe.

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Virtue:

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A habit of doing what is good. We build virtues through our own efforts and God’s grace.

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Temperance

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Cardinal virtue that helps us avoid extremes and find the right balance between too much and too little of the good things in life.

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Fortitude:

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A cardinal virtue that helps us continue when forced with difficulty

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Justice:

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A cardinal virtue that helps us give God and neighbor their due

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Prudence:

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Prudence: A cardinal virtue that helps us to have the right reason and put it into action. It helps us to make the right decision at the right time and to find the best way to achieve a good outcome

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Emotion

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Feelings, responses of the body and soul to some experience of the senses. They are neither morally good nor morally bad. They only take on a moral quality when we use our intellect and will to direct them for some morally good or morally bad purpose.

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Self-knowledge:

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The ability of a person to know himself and to reflect upon his memories, personality, and behavior. Human beings are capable.

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Self-Gift;

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The ability of a person to give of their time and energy to others out of love.

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Dignity:

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worthy of honor or respect

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Concupiscence:

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a tendency to sin that is an effect of original sin.

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Actual Grace

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help from God and in each moment of our lives to choose the good.

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Self-possession:

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The ability of a person to have control over what they do and to choose their actions. All human beings are capable.

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Conscience:

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the gift God gave human beings to be able to use reason in order to judge right from wrong.This is God’s voice in our hearts. We have to inform this with God’s word and prayer.

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Beatitude:

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Happiness or fulfillment. They teach us how to be truly happy.

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Sanctifying grace:

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the free gift of God’s love and life within our souls given to us by the Holy Spirit. This heals us of sin and makes us holy. We receive this through Sacraments

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Inerrant:

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Without error. The truth God wanted to know for the sake of our salvation without error.

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Apostolic Succession:

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The handing on of apostolic preaching and authority from the Apostles to their successors the bishops through the laying on of hands, as a permanent office in the church. The fourth mark of the church is that the church is apostolic, which me and that the church is built on the lasting foundation of the apostles.

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Divine Revelation:

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The body of truths revealed to us by God throughout Salvation History

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Typology:

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The study of “types”. Typology studies how one thing leaves an imprint on a later thing in salvation History. The earlier thing is a “type.’ The study of types is most often considered in relation to Jesus Christ and the events of salvation.

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Pharisees:

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A member of a powerful group of leaders in jewish society during the time of Jesus. They believed that in order for Israel to remain faithful to God, the people must remain pure and hold strictly to the law of Moses.

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Inspiration:

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The human authors of Scripture were guided by God through the Holy Spirit in their writing.

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Sacred tradition:

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The mode of transmission of the Word of God. The Word of God was given to the apostles by Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The apostles in turn handed it on to their successors, the bishop.

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Canon of Scripture:

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The official list of inspired books that appear in the bible. The Catholic canon of Scripture includes 46 Old Testament books and 27 New testament books.

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Magisterium:

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The teaching authority of the Church and those who exercise that authority, the pope and all of the World’s bishops in union with the pope.

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Sacred Scripture:

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The written record of God’s revelation of Himself. It is the speech of God put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit.

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Gentiles:

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People of non-Jewish ethnicity

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Mystery:

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A truth about God that we can come to know only with God’s help.

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Synoptic:

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“To see together.” The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are know as the synoptic gospels because they present the story of Christ’s life in a similar way and even borrow stories and the structure of their gospels from each other.

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Incarnation:

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The christian belief that the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, assumed human nature in the Person of Jesus Christ.

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Word of God:

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A title for Jesus Christ and a title for Sacred Scripture. Jesus is the Word of God who became flesh in the Incarnation. In him, Gd has revealed all that is necessary for the sake of our salvation.

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Kingdom of God:

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God’s reign or rule over all things. During His public ministry, Jesus proclaimed that the Kingdom of God was at hand.

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Paschal Mystery:

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Christ’s Passion, Death and resurrection which saved us from sin and death for new life as sons and daughters of God.

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Annunciation:

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The gospel story of the Angel Gabriel announcing that she will be the mother of God, Jesus Christ.

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Gospel:

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“Good news” The four Gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Messiah:

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The Hebrew word for “anointed on.’ All of the kings descended from David were anointed as a sign of their kingship.

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Vocation:

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The calling of destiny of all people in this life and the next.

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Miracle:

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A supernatural act of God that demonstrates His power over all things.