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| good news. 1-Jesus' own teaching 2-the preaching about Jesus 3- the 4 spirit-inspired books-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John |
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| the dogma that God's eternal Son assumed a human nature and became man in Jesus Christ to save us from our sins |
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| a title for Jesus meaning "the aointed one" Greek Christos translated the Hebrew Messiah |
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| God's forgiveness of sins, accomplished through the mercy of Jesus Christ, resulting in the restoration |
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| teaching device of Jesus in which he told a short story with a striking, memorable comparison that taught a religious message usually about some aspect of God' kingdom |
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| the four gospel writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. "one who proclaims in word and deed the good news of Jesus Christ" |
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| "education of faith" for young people and adults with the view of making them disciples of Jesus Christ. |
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| the feast that celebrates the mystery of Christ's manifestation as the Savior of the world |
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| the saving love of God most fully revealed in the life and especially the passion, death, resurrection, and glorious ascension of his Son Jesus Christ |
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| the reign of God proclaimed by Jesus and begun in his life, death, and resurrection. The process of God reconciling and renewing all things through his Son, to the fact of his will being done on earth as it is in Heaven |
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| the second coming of Christ when the Lord will judge the living and the dead |
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| an obstinate denial after Baptism to believe a truth that must be believed with divine and Catholic faith, or an obstinate doubt about such truth |
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| an appearance or manifestation of God to humans |
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| another name for the Holy Spirit that means advocate, defender, or consoler |
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| a special gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us build up the Church, Christ's body. Some of these gifts are the ability to express wisdom and knowledge, healing, prophecy, and discernment of spirits |
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| the body of christ, that is, the community of God's people who profess faith in the risen Lord Jesus and love and serve others under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Roman Catholic Church is guided by the pope an his bishops |
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| to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to others |
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| a reality filled with God's invisible presence. applies to the Blessed Trinity's plan of salvation in Jesus Christ, the Church which is his body, and the sacraments |
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| all the members of the Church who have been initiated into the Church through Baptism and who are not ordained (the clergy) or in consecrated life. The laity participated in Jesus' prophetic, priestly, and kingly ministries |
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| the officail public worship of the Church. The sacraments and the divine Office constitute the Church's liturgy. The mass is the most important liturgical celebration |
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| the official, sacred leadership in the Church made up of the Church's ordained ministers- bishops, priests, and deacons. the symbol of unity and authority in the Church is the pope, the Bishop of Rome, who is the successor of St. Peter |
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| Evangelical Counsels (Vows) |
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| Vows of personal poverty, chastity understood as lifelong celibacy, and obedience to the demands of the community being joined which are professed by those entering the consecrated life. |
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| a gift of the Spirit whereby the pope and bishops are preserved from error when proclaiming a doctrine related to Christian faith or morals |
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| the official body of rules (canons) that provides for good order in the Catholic Church |
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| 4 essential signs or characteristics of Christ's Church- one, holy, catholic, and apostolic |
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| "universal" or "general" The catholic church is the christian community that is one, holy, apostolic and catholic- that is, open to all people everywhere at all times- and preaches the fullness of God's revelation in Jesus Christ |
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| "one sent" to be Christ's ambassador, to continue his work. Widest sense, the term refers to all of Christ's disciples whose mission is to preach his gospel in word and deed. |
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| the movement, inspired and led by the Holy Spirit, that seeks the union of all christian religious and eventually the unity of the world. |
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| a baptized Christian who believes in Christ but who does not accept all the teachings of the Catholic Church. Communities first came into existence during the Reformation in the sixteenth century. |
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| a major break between the churches of the West (centered in Rome) and the East (centered in the Greek city of Constantinople). The roman church had added the expression "and the Son" to the article of the Nicene Creed. |
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| a perfect life of supreme happiness with God and the communion of saints for all eternity |
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| the unity of Christ of all those he has redeemed- the Church on earth, in heaven, and in purgatory |
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| a study of and teaching about the "last things" (Death, judgement, heaven, hell, purgatory, the Second Coming of Christ, and the resurrection of the body) |
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| the state of purification that takes place after death for those who need to be made clean and holy before meeting the all-holy God in heaven |
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| the Church dogma that holds that the Blessed Mother, by a special grace form God and by virtue of her Son's merits, was preserved immune from all stain of original sin from the very first moment of her human existence. this feast is celebrated on December 8, a holy day of obligation. |
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| the church dogma that teaches that the Blessed Mother, because of her uniue role in her Son's Resurrection, was taken directly to heaven when her earthly life was over. the feast is August 15 a holy day of obligation. |
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| a hebrew word for "truly" or "it is so" thus signifying agreement with what has been said. NT and liturgical prayers, creeds, and other Christian prayers end with "amen" to show belief in what has just been said. |
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| eternal seperation from God that results from a person dying after freely and deliberately choosing to act against God's will |
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| The Christian belief that when Christ comes again he will reunite the bodies of every human with their souls. |
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| seeing God "face to face" in heaven, the source of our eternal happines; final unison with the Triune God for all eternity |
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| actual sin that weakens and wounds our relationship with God, but does not destory divine life in our souls |
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| bad habits or dispositions that turn us from the good and incline us to commit evil |
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| a serious violation of God's law of love that results in the loss of God's life in the soul of the sinner. There must be grave matter, full knowledge of the evil done. and full consent of the will. |
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