Vocab

Question 1

conversion

Answer 1

a radical reorientation of one’s whole life away from sin and evil and toward God

Question 2

redemption

Answer 2

the act of reclaiming someone or something in exchange for payment of a debt

Question 3

penitent

Answer 3

one who approaches the Lord with contrition for sins in the Sacrament of penance and Reconciliation

Question 4

penance

Answer 4

a prayer, good work, or other act assigned by the priest in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in order to make satisfaction for sins and turn the penitent back to the habits of discipleship

Question 5

absolution

Answer 5

forgiveness of a person’s sins by a priest acting in the Person of Christ

Question 6

satisfaction

Answer 6

the repair or restoration of what has been broken

Question 7

act of contrition

Answer 7

a prayer in which we express sorrow for our sins out of love for God, as well as our committment not to sin again

Question 8

temptation

Answer 8

an attraction, either from outside oneself or from within, to act contrary to right reason and the commandments of God

Question 9

In Persona Christi

Answer 9

The Latin phrase describing how bishops and priests are ordained to act “in the person of Christ the head” when they perform their priestly functions. Priests do not preach, sanctify, and govern by their own authority but by the authority given them by Christ, the head of the Church, to act in His person.

Question 10

seal of confession

Answer 10

the sacred obligation binding the priest never to reveal what he has heard in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

Question 11

reconciliation

Answer 11

the restoration of friendship; the bringing back together of what has been wrongly separated

Question 12

sin of omission

Answer 12

sin resulting from a failure to act when we should have

Question 13

examen

Answer 13

daily exercise of reflecting on the morality of one’s conduct

Question 14

perfect contrition

Answer 14

contrition arising out of love for God

Question 15

imperfect contrition

Answer 15

contrition arising out of disgust with sin and/or with the fear of punishment

Question 16

despair

Answer 16

the sin of voluntarily giving up hope in our salvation from God, in help attaining it, or in the forgiveness of sins.

Question 17

culpable

Answer 17

deserving the blame

Question 18

contrition

Answer 18

sorrow of the soul and detestation of sin together with the resolution not to sin again.