Rice chapter 4 Flashcards
Ascension.
Forty days after his Resurrection, the entry of Christ’s humanity into divine glory.
Agony in the Garden.
The mental, moral, and physical agony suffered by Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he prayed after the Last Supper but before his arrest. He asked the Father, if possible, to remove the cup of his Passion and Death but the Father’s will be done.
Crucifixion.
A form of execution in which the prisoner is nailed or otherwise affixed to a cross and left to die of asphyxiation.
Descent of the Holy Spirit
Fifty days after Passover, the Apostles, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other disciples were gathered in the Upper Room during the Jewish Feast of Pentecost, which celebrates the giving of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai. The Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and was given to the Church. This event is considered the “birthday” of the Church.
Kenosis
Greek for “emptying,” it refers to Christ having emptied himself by becoming man and taking on human nature (cf. Phil 2: 5-11)
Last Supper
The Passover meal Christ and his Apostles celebrated before his arrest. Christ instituted the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders at the Last Supper.
Resurrection
The bodily rising of Christ from the dead, as he had foretold, on the third day after his Death on the Cross and burial in the tomb. By virtue of his Resurrection, Christians have the hope of resurrection with Christ on the Last Day (cf. CCC 997).
Passion
The suffering of Christ leading up to his death.
Stations of the Cross
The pious practice of meditating upon Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection. This may be done either by walking the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem or passing from one image to the next depicting Christ’s sufferings in a church.
Suffering Servant
In fulfillment of Isaiah 53, Christ, the Suffering Servant, suffered and died on the Cross to gain the redemption of mankind.
Temptations in the Desert
Following the Baptism of Christ by St. John, Christ fasted and prayed in the wilderness for forty days. During this time, he was tempted by Satan. Unlike our first parents and their descendants, Christ overcame the temptations of the Devil.
Transfiguration
The divine glory of Christ was manifested to Sts. Peter, James, and John on Mt. Tabor. While there, Christ spoke with Moses and Elijah and was called “Son” by a voice from Heaven.
Eucharist
From the Greek for thanksgiving; called the Mass or Lord’s Supper. It is the principal sacramental celebration of the Church, established by Christ at the Last Supper, in which the mystery of salvation through participation in the sacrificial Death and glorious Resurrection of Christ is renewed and accomplished. This term is also applied to the species consecrated during the Mass.
He descended to the dead
In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only “die for our sins”42 but should also “taste death,” experience the condition of death, the separation of his soul from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. (CCC 624)
The dead
The state of all who had died before the redemption.
