Relegion Flashcards
Person hood
The quality or condition of being an individual person
Understanding:
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.
Wisdom
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.
Piety
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.
Knowledge
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.
Fear of the Lord:
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.
Counsel:
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.
Love
the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. Also called charity.
Communion:
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.
Contrition:
a form of prayer in which we have true sorrow for our sins and ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness.
Adoration:
A form of prayer in which we worship God and express our love for him.
Faith
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.
Virtue:
A habit of doing what is good. We build virtues through our own efforts and God’s grace.
Temperance
Cardinal virtue that helps us avoid extremes and find the right balance between too much and too little of the good things in life.
Fortitude:
A cardinal virtue that helps us continue when forced with difficulty
Justice:
A cardinal virtue that helps us give God and neighbor their due
Prudence:
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
Emotion
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.
Self-knowledge:
The ability of a person to know himself and to reflect upon his memories, personality, and behavior. Human beings are capable.