Quiz 6
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- IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
- The dogma proclaimed in Christian Tradition and defined in 1854, that from the first moment of her conception, Mary--by the singular grace of God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ--was preserved immune from original sin
- HOMOSEXUALITY, Kyle
- Sexual attraction or orientation toward persons of the same sex and/or sexual acts between persons of the same sex.
- HOPE
- The theological virtue by which we desire and expect from God both eternal life and the grace we need to attain it
- HYMN
- Sacred poetry set to music and meant to raise the hearts of Christian people to God, especially during liturgical services
- HYPOSTATIC UNION
- The union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person
- HEAVEN
- Eternal life with God; communion of life and love with the Trinity and all the blessed.
- INCARNATION
- The fact that the Son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our salvation in that same human nature. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, is both true God and true man, not part God and part man
- HOLY WATER
- Blessed water, a sacramental whose sprinkling or use is a reminder of Baptism and a means of sanctification
- HERESY
- The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith
- GRACE
- The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to become his adopted children.
- HIERARCHY OF TRUTHS
- The order of the truths in Catholic doctrine, insofar as they vary in their relation to the central mystery and foundation of Christian faith, the mystery of the Holy Trinity
- HERMIT
- One who lives the eremitical life. Through silence and solitude, in prayer and penance,
- HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION
- Principal feast days on which, in addition to Sundays, Catholics are obliged by Church law to participate in the Eucharist; a precept of the Church
- HOLY SEE
- The seat of the central administration of the worldwide Catholic Church; the name is taken from the seat or diocese of the Pope, Bishop of Rome and successor of St. Peter as Vicar of Christ and pastor of the universal Church
- GUARDIAN ANGELS
- Angels assigned to protect and intercede for each person
- GOSPEL, LAW OF THE
- The New Law, prepared for by the Old Law in the time of the Old Covenant, is the perfection here on earth of the divine law, natural and revealed. It is the work of Christ, expressed particularly in the Sermon on the Mount, and of the Holy Spirit, by whose grace it becomes for us the interior law of charity
- HIERARCHY
- The Apostles and their successors, the college of bishops, to whom Christ gave the authority to teach, sanctify, and rule the Church in his name
- HUMILITY
- The virtue by which a Christian acknowledges that God is the author of all good.
- HELL
- The state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives
- HOMILY
- Preaching by an ordained minister to explain the Scriptures proclaimed in the liturgy and to exhort the people to accept them as the Word of God
- HAPPINESS
- Joy and beatitude over receiving the fulfillment of our vocation as creatures: a sharing in the divine nature and the vision of God.
- GOSPEL
- The "good news" of God's mercy and love revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
- ICON
- Religious painting traditional among many Eastern Christians.
- IMPEDIMENT
- An obstacle that makes a person ineligible for performing an act or receiving a sacrament, e.g., Holy Orders or Matrimony
- ICONOCLASM
- A heresy which maintained that veneration of religious images is unlawful
- HOLY SPIRIT
- The third divine Person of the Blessed Trinity, the personal love of Father and Son for each other.
- HOLY WEEK
- The week preceding Easter, beginning with Palm (Passion) Sunday, called the "Great Week" in the liturgies of the Eastern Churches. It marks the Church's annual celebration of the events of Christ's Passion, death, and Resurrection, culminating in the Paschal Mystery
- IMMORTALITY
- The quality of the spiritual human soul whereby it survives the death of the body and remains in existence without end, to be reunited with the body at the final resurrection
- IDOLATRY
- The divinization of a creature in place of God; the substitution of some one (or thing) for God; worshiping a creature (even money, pleasure, or power) instead of the Creator
- HAIL MARY
- The prayer known in Latin as the Ave Maria. The first part of the prayer praises God for the gifts he gave to Mary as Mother of the Redeemer; the second part seeks her maternal intercession for the members of the Body of Christ, the Church, of which she is the Mother