Things to know Flashcards
The Seven Deadly Sins
Pride - which is overcome by humility
Greed (Avarice) - which is overcome by generosity
Lust- which is overcome by chastity and respect for the other as a child of God
Envy- which is overcome by contentment and by the delight in the other’s wellbeing
Gluttony - which is overcome by temperance
Anger (Wrath) - which is overcome by patience
Sloth - which is overcome by diligence (effort)
Seven Virtues
Four cardinal virtues: Prudence (wisdom/caution), Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude.
Three theological virtues: Faith, hope and love.
Parts of True Repentance
1) Contrition - awareness of sin and its effect; sorrow and intention to amend one’s life
2) Confession - an honest accounting before God or in the confessional of what has been done and left undone
3) Satisfaction - an action that, as possible, makes amends to others and changes one’s behaviour
Serenity Prayer
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen.
Teresa of Avila saying
Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing - God never changeth.
Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth, in nothing is wanting. God alone sufficeth.
We give you thanks - prayer at meals
We give you thanks, O Lord, for the food we are about to receive, for the hands that have prepared it, and for all gathered at this table. Make us mindful of the needs of others and strengthen us in your service.
Te Deum (The Church’s hymn of thanksgiving)
We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee, the father everlasting.
To thee all angels cry aloud,
the Heavens and all the Powers therein.
To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry:
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Saboath;
Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory.
The glorious company of apostles praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee.
The noble army of martyrs praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee,
the Father, of an infinite majesty,
thine adorable, true and only Son,
also the Holy Ghost the Comforter.
Thou art the King of glory, O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man,
thou didst humble thyself to be born of a Virgin.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death
thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come be our judge.
We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbered with thy saints, in glory everlasting.
O antiphons
December 17th - O Wisdom
December 18th - O Adonai
December 19th - O Root of Jesus
December 20 - O Key of David
December 21 - O Dawn of the East
December 22 - O King of the Nations
Dec 23 - O Emmanuel
St Patrick’s Breastplate
I bind unto myself today the strong name of the Trinity, by the invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three of whom all nature hath creation, eternal Father, Spirit, Word: praise to the Lord of my salvation, salvation is of Christ the Lord, Amen.
Augustine of Hippo conversion story
- after starting to study rhetoric, he adopted Manicheanism - which is a dualist religion that argues that the spirit world is good and the material is bad (eating, having sex)
- he gave into hedonist desires - but eventually starting seeing a woman - relationship would last for 15 years (until converting)
- as a teenager - saw a pear tree when with friends and stole the fruit - pleasurable derived from the fact that it was forbidden more than from the fruit itself (gave them to the pigs actually)
- Machineanism was not filling his soul - his mother and friend encouraged him to become Christian and he started to listen to sermons by Ambrose
- sent the woman away and was engaged to someone younger - more respectable in his eyes
- apologetic career - on the holiness of the catholic church in 388
- became ordained in 391 - so did not marry
- believed that evil was a distortion of the good
