Section 1 Flashcards
The four-week liturgical season during which Christians prepare themselves for the celebration of Christmas.
Advent
The feast day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus; also refers to the liturgical season that immediately follows Christmas Day.
Christmas
The twenty-one Churches of the East, with their own theological, liturgical, and administrative traditions, in union with the universal Catholic Church and her head, the Bishop of Rome.
Eastern Catholic Churches
A feast day celebrating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus and the revelation of the Savior to the Gentiles. Originally celebrated on the twelfth day of Christmas (January 6), Epiphany is now celebrated on the Sunday between January 2 and January 8.
Epiphany
From a Greek word meaning “to resemble”; a pictorial representation or image of a religious figure or event typically painted on a wooden panel and used in the prayer and worship of Eastern Christians.
icon
Traditionally, the span of forty days (excepting Sundays) between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. In the official Church calendar, Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday evening with the celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It is followed by the Triduum, the three days of the Lord’s Passion, death, and Resurrection. Lent is the season during which believers focus on conversion, turning toward God more completely in their lives.
Lent
Of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition. A liminal experience is one of being between one significant moment and another; a threshold experience; for example, the time of engagement before marriage.
liminal
The Church’s annual cycle of religious feasts and seasons that forms the context for the Church’s worship. During the liturgical year, we remember and celebrate God the Father’s saving plan as it is revealed through the life of his Son, Jesus Christ.
liturgical year
The Church’s official, public, communal prayer. It is God’s work, in which the People of God participate. The Church’s most important liturgy is the Eucharist, or the Mass.
liturgy
The Church’s living teaching office, which consists of all the bishops, in communion with the Pope.
Magisterium
The time in the liturgical year that is not part of a special season like Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.
Ordinary Time
The work of salvation accomplished by Jesus Christ mainly through his life, Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension.
Paschal Mystery
The night the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites marked by the blood of the lamb, and spared the firstborn sons from death. It also is the feast that celebrates the deliverance of the Chosen People from bondage in Egypt and the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land.
Passover
The biblical event following the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus at which the Holy Spirit was poured out on his disciples; in the Christian liturgical year, the feast fifty days after Easter on which the biblical event of Pentecost is recalled and celebrated.
Pentecost
The established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often. The actions often have a symbolic meaning.
ritual
