Religion Unit 3 Test Flashcards
What are the forms of prayer?
Vocal, contemplation and meditation
What is Christian Meditation?
- Focusing your attention on an idea, a story, or a particular object
- Helps us enter into the actual experience of praying and fully enables us to attend to God
What does Christain meditation require and focus on and acknowledge on?
- Requires practice, concentration, and commitment
- Focuses on God and not mental reflection of oneself
- Moves from mental prayer to the heart
- Acknowledges that the Spirit dwells within us and that we need to be quiet and still to the Spirit
- Buddhism emphasizes meditation as a way to enrich your prayer life
What is lectio Divina and what are the four parts?
- Meditation upon the word of God where we read the word of God slowly
Four parts: - Lectio = read the passage of the scripture
- Meditation = reflect on what you believe God is saying
- Oratio = respond in prayer or journal
- Contemplation = rest in silence and allow God to do the work
What is Visio Divina and what does it involve?
- Reading on sacred art
Involves - An opening prayer
- Focusing on a specific part of the image for a minute
- Looking or reflecting on the whole image
- Considering emotions the image involves
- Saying any prayers the image invokes
- Offering prayers to God in a final time of silence
What is contemplation and when does it occur?
- Different form of consciousness that requires living in constant union with God so that everything is a prayer
- We rest our thoughts and simply love/respond to love
- It takes practice and sets aside the kind of mental effort used in meditation, seeking instead a wordless, loving adoration of Christ and his mysteries.
- To feel this we must be open to it and able to perceive and appreciate God’s presence
- Occurs when we see God’s presence in the ordinary in a tree, breeze or great time with friends
- A deeper form of prayer and not something that you are led through and this connection with God is not easily acquired
What is daily examen and the five step of it?
- Prayerful reflections on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern his direction for us.
- Ancient practice in the Church that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience
Version of the five-step Daily Examen that St. Ignatius practiced
- Become aware of God’s presence
- Review teh day with gratitude
- Pay attention to your emotions
- Choose one feature of the day and pray from it
- Look forward to tomorrow
Adoration/Praise prayer
- Express praise and honor to God.
- Praise God for giving us life, for the wonder and beauty of our world, and for all the many blessings we enjoy.
- Open ourselves up to praise God for all the wonders of creation.
Blessing prayer
One that calls on God’s power to care for a person, place, thing or undertaking.
Thanksgiving prayer
- The verbal expression of thanks arising from gratitude within the heart.
- Meditating on God’s grace and mercies gives birth to gratitude, and gratitude to love.
Petition prayer
- Praying to God asking God to fulfill a need.
- Sometimes that need is for ourselves, and sometimes it’s for others, but it’s a direct request for something we truly desire God to deliver.
Intercession prayer
Act of praying on behalf of others, or asking a saint in heaven to pray on behalf of oneself or for others.
· Responsorial Psalm
- Usually the first reading in the wedding service is followed by a psalm.
- It is a way of saying ‘Yes, we agree, and we are right behind what that first reading has said’.
- Antiphonal psalm that is said or read before the Gospel at Mass.
- We are expected to respond, either with signing or speaking, depending on the Mass.
· General Intercessions (Prayers of the Faithful / Petitions)
In the General Intercessions or the Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in a certain way to the word of God which they have welcomed in faith and, exercising the office of their baptismal priesthood, offer prayers to God for the salvation of all.
Litanies
- Litanies are a form of prayer, led by a priest or deacon, containing a series of petitions to which people make fixed responses.
- Litany for the Dying
The Rosary and parts of it
- The rosary is a devotion in honor of the Virgin Mary. It consists of a set number of specific prayers.
- First are the introductory prayers: one Apostles’ Creed (Credo), one Our Father (the Pater Noster or the Lord’s Prayer), three Hail Mary’s (Ave’s), one Glory Be (Gloria Patri).
Stations of the Cross
- The Stations of the Cross refer to a series of depictions of Christ’s journey.
- They represent 14 key moments in the trial, crucifixion, and burial of Jesus Christ.
- Stations of the Cross, or the Way of the Cross, have been celebrated by Roman Catholic believers for centuries, typically right before Easter.
Our father
because we are his sons, God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who class out Abba, Father
Hallowed be thy name
we are asking God to guide us through troubled times rather than asking him to save us from troubled times
Thy Kingdom come
we are asking to be accepted into God’s kingdom
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
to love one another as he has loved us so we must love one another
Give us this day our daily bread
he gives us eternal life and food in which we need to sustain ourselves
Food which endures to eternal life that Jesus feeds us
not food that spoils
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
asking God for forgiveness, as well as declaring our forgiveness of those who have wronged us
This petition implies responsibilities, what are they?
to seek jesus not for the tangible items that fill us but for that fills our hearts
And lead us not into temptation
No temptation has overtaken us except what is common to mankind and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
But deliver us from evil
We need deliverance from it. We need to avoid it and escape it, to be shielded from it or through it.
“What does prayer require?”
time, discipline, to be done daily and focused on God not oneself
Baptism
Baptism (acceptance)
Type: Initiation
Celebrates: Welcome/Rebirth
Meaning: Born into new life in the community of Jesus
Primary Words/ Symbols: water, white garment, lit candle, sign of the cross, anointing with oil
Ongoing effect: membership in the church and call to witness
Eucharist
Eucharist (gratitude)
Type: Initiation
Celebrates: Jesus’ saving death and risen presence in our midst
Meaning: Remembering Jesus’ death, experiencing his real presence, thanksgiving
Primary Words/ Symbols: bread, wine, words of consecration
Ongoing effect: deeper relationship with christ and spiritual nourishment
Confirmation
Confirmation (commitment)
Type: Initiation
Celebrates: Growth in the spirit
Meaning: strengthening of new life
Primary Words/ Symbols: laying on of hands, anointing/sealing with chrism
Ongoing effect: completes baptismal grace and call to witnessc, sealing the covenant made in baptism
Reconciliation
Reconciliation (forgiveness)
Type: healing
Celebrates: forgiveness
Meaning: repairing broken relationships with God, others, and the Church
Primary Words/ Symbols: confession of sins, words of absolution, laying on of hands
Ongoing effect: liberation from sin
Anointing of the sick
Anointing of the sick (preparedness)
Type: healing
Celebrates: God’s healing love
Meaning: living the fullness of life in Christ, even in sickness and death
Primary Words/ Symbols: laying on of hands, anointing with oil, words of petition
Ongoing effect: strength, peace, courage to endure
Marriage
Marriage (service to spouse, family and secular society)
Type: Service
Celebrates: covenant of love
Meaning: forming a bond of union (like that of christ and his church)
Primary Words/ Symbols: husband and wife, rings, vows
Ongoing effect: permanent union of a man and woman
Holy Orders
Holy Orders (service to faith)
Type: Service
Celebrates: ministry in the church
Meaning: taking responsibility for a particular leadership role
Primary Words/ Symbols: laying on of hands, anointing with oil, prayer of priestly consecration
Ongoing effect: sacred powers for service to the church
Mortal sin and its three conditions and examples
- Commit mortal sin, go to confession and communion
- Turning back on God
- Willful, rebellion sin against God
Three conditions of mortal sin:
1. Serious matter
2. Must be with full knowledge
3. Done purposefully, not accidentally
- These sins involve a grave matter committed with full knowledge and done freely and deliberately. Examples of mortal sins include murder, adultery, blasphemy, and idolatry
Venial sins and examples
- Venial sins are lesser offenses that injure but do not destroy one’s relationship with God.
- Examples: gossiping, lying, pride, coveting, envy, neglecting to pray or read scripture regularly, and drinking to excess.
Transubstantiation
the term used to describe the change in the bread and wine are from symbols of Jesus’ presence, to Christ present
Agape
literally means love fest, refers to the fellowship meals shared by Christains in the early Church
unconditional love
fatherly love of God
Meaning of the Eucharist
the entire celebration of the mass can be referred to as the Eucharist, the second part of the mass is called the liturgy of the Eucharist (this includes the consecration of the bread and wine and the communion rite)
- thanksgiving
Communion
the actual consumption of the body and blood of Christ under the forms of bread and wine, communion is the way that an individual receives the sacrament of the Euchaist
Blessed Sacrament:
the consecrated bread not consumed during the mass, but reserved in the tabernacle, believed to be Jesus Christ (really present). The Blessed Sacrament itself can also be called the Eucharits.
- The Eucharist, also known as the Blessed Sacrament, is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. When we receive or adore the Eucharist during Mass or during Holy Hour, we are actually receiving and adoring Jesus Christ Himself.
Prayer’s purpose
By prayer one acknowledges God’s power and goodness, and one’s own neediness and dependence. It is therefore an act of the virtue of religion implying the deepest reverence for God and habituating a person to look to him for everything. Prayer presupposes faith in God and hope in his goodness.
What is prayer?
- Living relationship with God
- Involves loving adherence to the will of the Father And an absolute confidence in being heard
Prayer happens in a variety of places and forms - God answers our prayers in God’s own way
- Prayer helps us provide us with the Grace we need for the week;y culmination of prayer in the Eucharist
- an act of communication by humans with the sacred or holy—God, the gods, the transcendent realm, or supernatural powers.
Reasons to pray (benefits in daily life)
- Prayer increases trust
- Prayer changes you
- Prayer reduces stress
- Prayer provides answers
- Build relationships
- Prayer fulfills emotional needs
- Brings us closer to god
Ways we pray
- Vocal
- Communal
- Contemplation
- Meditation
Symbol of the cross
This reminds us of the death of Jesus.
Symbol of the dove
The symbol of the Holy Spirit and of peace.
Symbol of a candle
Reminds us of Jesus’ words, “I am the Light of the
World”
Symbol of the fish
Used by early Christians as a secret sign of
their faith.
Symbol of the halo
Drawn by artists behind the head of religious
people.
Symbol of the alpha and omega
The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet –Jesus lives for ever.
Symbol of the chi-rho
The first letters of the Greek word which means “Christ.”
How many christian symbols are there?
7
What are the 8 characteristics of Rituals?
Significant words
Linkages to the past
communcal actions
participation not observation
movement and gestures with meaning
repeated actions
symbolic celebrations
important events
What is the most important symbol?
The sacrements themselves
What is a sign?
Any object that represents something else that is seemingly unrelated
What is a symbol and what are the 3 characteristics?
Represent somthing but have three main characterstics such as emotional significance, symbols have more than one meaning and are already related to what they represent
What is a cultural symbol?
Closley depednant on a specific situation
What are universal symbols?
clearly recognized throughout the world
What do symbols communicate and what are sacrements in terms of symbols?
Symbols communicate experiences of faith like cross and candles which are the most important symbols are the sacrements
Sacrements are symbols of God’s grace, reminding us that God loves us and is with us at every stage in our lives, giving us the strength to go on
What is a ritual?
symbolic actions that help us express our beliefs, values and deepest concerns
they have a deeper meaning than symbols
Can be simple as a handshake, wave or sign of the cross
Rituals communicate what is important to us and what has meaning for us
Rituals express those things that are hard to express any other way but through symbolic action like boding of two people who love each other through the sacreament of marriage
In the church, rituals express a deeper meaning of the sacrements
Movements and Gestures with meaning
clapping hands, kissing, waving good-bye
repeated actions
actions within a ritual are often repetitive, sometimes the meaning of the ritual is in the fact that it is repeated at a specific time every year or month
symbolic celebrations
rituals are often tied to lively celebrations and break us out of our life routines
Important events
rituals are connected to important evenst in people’s lives that formalize our “firsts” or celebrate our induction into a community
Significant words
rituals often include words that highlight significance of the action but rituals don’t always have words so they are secondary, only supporting the actions
Linkages to the past
rituals link people to their past and remind them who they are (Canada day)
Communal actions
rituals people come together to celebarte being a community with a common identity often involves a whole group of people at once, even if no one else is around carrying out a ritual can connect you to a community
Participation not observation
people make rituals happen by participating in them as it can affect and transform us but only if we engage in them
