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Theo ch 1
Sister Mary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Actual grace | This supernatural, free, and undeserved help from god is given for specific circumstances to help us choose what is good and avoid what is evil |
| Charism | A specific gift or grace of the Holy Spirit which directs or indirectly benefits the church, given in order to help a person live out the Christian life or to serve the common good in building the church. |
| Church | the assembly of people whom god had called together from the ends of the earth : the people that god gathers together! The local church (diocese), and the liturgical assembly. Also the name given to a building used for public Christian worship |
| Concupisence | Human appetite or desires remain disorders due to temporal consequences of original sin. Remains after baptism and continues an inclination to sin. Desires resulting from strong sensual urges |
| Covenant | A agreement between people or god and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees |
| Form | The necessary ritual words and signs that accompany a sacrament |
| Habitual grace/ sanctifying grace | An infused gift of the Holy Spirit by which a person receives divine life of god in one’s soul. A person receives three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Enables us to live as true deciples of Christ |
| Image of god (imago dei) | The image of God, present in all humans by virtue of their creation by God, is made even more explicit through the Sacrament of Baptism, one is “baptized into” Christ and made “a new creation.” That image of Christ is enhanced through living a life of gra |
| Matter | The material or physical sign of a sacrament. Examples include water (Baptism) and bread and wine (the Eucharist). |
| Messiah | Hebrew for “anointed.” This is used in reference to Jesus because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission of priest, prophet, and king, signified by his being anointed as Christ |
| protoevangelium | From the Greek proto meaning “first” and evaggelos meaning “bringing good news.” The first message of Good News — the first Gospel — is Genesis 3: 15 in which the promise of the Messiah and Redeemer is foretold |
| Redemption | Literally meaning “being bought back,” the act by which Jesus Christ, through his sacrificial Death on the Cross, set us free from the slavery of sin, thus redeeming or “buying us back” from the power of the Devil |
| Resurrection | The bodily rising of Jesus from the dead, as he had foretold, on the third day after his Death on the Cross and burial in the tomb. By virtue of his Resurrection, Christians have the hope of resur-rection with Christ on the last day (cf.CCC 997 |
| Sacrament | An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed through the work of the Holy Spirit. There are seven sacraments |
| Minister | The person who administers or celebrates a sacrament |
| Mystical body of Christ | Based on the teaching of St. Paul found in his First Letter to the Corinthians, this doctrine holds that believers are united to Christ as branches to a vine and, due to that union, united to one another |
| Original sin | Adam and Eve’s abuse of their human freedom in disobeying God’s command. As a consequence, they lost the grace of original holiness and justice, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world; |
| Sacramental character | An indelible mark, i.e., a permanent and unrepeatable spiritual quality, imprinted on the soul by the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, that gives the Christian a share in the priesthood of Christ. |
| Sacrilege | |
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