Vocabulary - Q2

Question 1

The Temple

Answer 1

The Jewish place of worship built by King Solomon. Under him, Israel reached its greatest.

Question 2

Mortal Sin

Answer 2

Destroys a person’s relationship with God. If a sin is mortal, it must be a grave matter, done with full knowledge and freely willed.

Question 3

Venial Sin

Answer 3

Damages one’s relationship with God. Venial sin is when one of these three mortal sin qualities are missing or any offense against God.

Question 4

Passover

Answer 4

A Jewish feast that celebrates the killing of The Egyptians’ first born child as a result of Pharaoh’s refusal to free Israel. It is when the Israelites gathered together to eat unleavened bread and spread the blood of the lamb they killed (and ate) on their doors so that the angel of death would “pass over” and not kill their family.

Question 5

Conscience

Answer 5

The ability to know right from wrong.

Question 6

Adoration

Answer 6

Reserved only to God while respect can refer to God or Man.

Question 7

Meditation

Answer 7

listening to God via emotions, thoughts and imagination. Examples of meditation include the rosary, chaplet of divine mercy, station of the cross, Lectio Divina, and Eucharistic adoration.

Question 8

Contemplation

Answer 8

Wordless prayer.

Question 9

Ecstasy

Answer 9

“other worldly,” when God “possesses” the individual.

Question 10

Worship

Answer 10

Reserved to God, whereby a person respects and give God what is just.

Question 11

Venerate

Answer 11

To respect

Question 12

Parable

Answer 12

a story that uses everyday events/objects to explain a spiritual/invisible reality.

Question 13

Consecrate

Answer 13

when something is set aside for a sacred purpose.

Question 14

Sacrament

Answer 14

an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace. It makes an invisible reality become real.

Question 15

Piety

Answer 15

putting God first, to look only at him.

Question 16

Grace

Answer 16

a gift that we need to share God’s life; gift freely given by God to obey His will; God’s life within us

Question 17

Pharisees

Answer 17

Jews that interpreted the written laws and teachings of the Old Testament

Question 18

Sanctification

Answer 18

act of making or being made holy

Question 19

Covenant

Answer 19

being under an agreement or relationship, sealed by the ritual or ceremony

Question 20

Liturgical year

Answer 20

contains table of seasons and yearly celebrations

Question 21

Ark of the covenant

Answer 21

a box with the Ten Commandments

Question 22

Patriarch

Answer 22

a male teacher of Israel

Question 23

Fidelity

Answer 23

faithfulness, loyalty to someone.

Question 24

Revelation

Answer 24

God helping us know who He is.

Question 25

Discernment

Answer 25

learning what God wants of us.

Question 26

Faith

Answer 26

to hope for things unseen and to do what we believe

Question 27

Salvation

Answer 27

when you are freed from sin, obeying God’s will.

Question 28

Exodus

Answer 28

“to go out, departure.”

Question 29

Beatitudes

Answer 29

help us know true happiness.

Question 30

Manna

Answer 30

heavenly food that fed the Israelites.

Question 31

Oral tradition

Answer 31

words and stories handed down.

Question 32

Messiah

Answer 32

for all, “God’s anointed one” that saved the world.

Question 33

Abba

Answer 33

an Aramaic word that means “father, God is next to us.”

Question 34

Incarnation

Answer 34

the greatest thing God has done, becoming Man.