Religion I Study Sheet Vocab.
HCHS Religion I Final Study Sheet Vocabulary
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- Church: Sacrament of Jesus
- The Church is the concrete tangible means by which Jesus continues to make God's love and kingdom present in the earthly world; Through the Church, people can tangibly and physically experience the invisible God
- Grace
- The love of and the very life of God, which can be shared with us; moments of grace God truly comes to us & transform us
- Vatican II On Sacraments
- § Says purpose of sacraments is "to sanctify (people), to build up the body of the Church and finally, to give worship to God."
- Mother of God
- Name given to Mary because Mary was the mother of Christ, Theo-tokos = "bearer of Christ," so we call her Mother of God
- Sacraments of Initiation
- Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist
- Assumption
- Because of her unique status, the Church believes that when Mary's Earthly life ended, she was taken, body and soul, into heaven; belief is based in Mary's unique role as mother of the Redeemer and our belief in sharing in Jesus' own; celebrated Aug. 15th (holy day of obligation)
- Veneration
- To honor (as an icon or a relic) with a ritual act of devotion ; Worship God, Venerate the Saints
- 7 Capital Sins
- Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Anger, Gluttony, Lust & Sloth
- Forgiveness for Sin: BAPTISM
- Forgives all sins (original and actual)
- Canonization
- The process declares that certain holy men and women are with the Lord in heaven and can serve as models of holiness
- St. Augustine On Sacraments
- Said sacraments are "visible signs of an invisible reality, a visible sign of invisible grace."
- Mortal Sins
- A grave offenses where the person has of full knowledge of the evil done, which results in the loss of god's life (sanctifying grace) in the sinner's soul
- Mother of Church
- ○ Name given to Mary because Mary was the mother of Christ, Theo-tokos = "bearer of Christ," so we call her Mother of God
- Sin, Sickness, Death
- Brought into the word by Evil and Original Sin
- Heaven
- A perfect life of supreme happiness with God and the communion of saints for all eternity
- Vices
- Habits that lead us to sin
- Immaculate Conception
- Belief that Mary was conceived in her mother's womb free of Original Sin; created (metaphorically) like Eve, the first women; celebrated Dec. 8th
- Venial Sins
- Actual sin (offenses) which do not permanently damage our relationship with God (divine life in out souls); it just weakens this relationship
- Original Sin
- Is the result of our fallen nature as related to us in the story of Genesis (Adam and Eve) to which we all are born into
- Actual Sin
- Sins that we commit (lying, cheating, stealing, etc.,); in two categories, Venial & Mortal Sins
- Church Triumphant
- Those in a state of grace and thus sharing in the heavenly life with the Trinity- with God
- Purgatory
- The state of purification that takes place after death for those who need to be made clean ad holy before meeting the all-holy God in heaven
- Ritual
- Concrete, visible actions which have symbolic (invisible) meaning for certain groups; communicate specific meaning and has a real power to affect us if we put ourselves fully into them
- Church Suffering
- Those who died in a sate of sin and who undergo spiritual cleansing in purgatory, so to attain a state of grace
- Forgiveness for Sin: RECONCILIATION
- Confession; requires Contrition (true sorrow from the sinner) and Absolution (words of forgiveness from the priest)
- Eschatology
- A study of and teaching about the "last things" (death, judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory, the Second Coming of Christ, and the resurrection of the body)
- Baptism
- Welcoming a new life into the community of Christ; In baptism we die to the life of sin, and are raised to a new life in the Church; we become members of Christ's Church
- Symbols
- Concrete items that represent some other deeper invisible reality
- Jesus: Sacrament of God
- Jesus is the concrete tangible means by which God communicates everything about Himself
- Hell
- Eternal separation from God that results from a person dying after freely and deliberately choosing to act against God's will (that is, not repenting of mortal sin)
- Pilgrim Church
- Those living on Earth and traveling toward spiritual perfection
- Sense of the Sacramental
- The presence can be encountered in material, physical things (through the Incarnation God becomes man) so we can encounter God in other material things
- Amen
- A Hebrew word for "truly" or "it is so," thus signifying agreement with what has been said; end with "Amen" to show belief in what has just been said
- Capital/Deadly sins
- group of seven vices that are the roof of all sinfulness