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- lectio divina
- What id prayerful reading scrupture that leads to thoughtful consideration of the meaning of God's word and its application to our lives?
- liturgy of the hours
- extended worship of Lord throughout day - readings & prayers are taken from Mass of day
- docetism
- the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and hissufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real
- blessing
- the act of praying for divine protection
- doxology
- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
- personal prayer
- praying alone at any time in any place
- sacramental
- of or relating to or involving a sacrament
- monophysitism
- a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
- novena
- a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days
- the religious
- people who take vows that dedicate them in a special way to God-usually they take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Examples are religious sisters, brothers, or religious order of priests
- nestorianism
- the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God)
- encyclicals
- letters from pope to whole Church
- petition
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- intercession
- a prayer to God on behalf of another person
- arianism
- heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son