Religion Mid-Term Vocab
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- COLLEGIALITY
- shared decision making
- CELIBACY
- the unmarried state of a priest
- ETHICS
- the code of moral principles and values that govern the behaviors of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong.
- AVARICE
- disorderly and unreasonable attachment to and desire for material things
- ABORTION
- ending of a human life in the womb of the mother
- ATHEISM
- a sin against the first commandment in which one rejects or denies God's existence
- CHANCERY
- church office dealing with legal matters and archives
- DISPENSATION
- an offical exemption or release system from an obligation or rule
- BLESSINGS
- invocation of God's favor by church officials and individuals
- ATONEMENT
- redemptive activity of prayer and good works
- DEVOTIONS
- pious praticious of members of the church including various acts of liturgery and worships
- CATECHUMEN
- one undergoing instruction prior to conversion to Christianity
- ECUMENISM
- movement of chritians and the churchs toward unity with all other religions
- ALMS
- money, clothes, food, etc given to poor people
- DIOCESE
- A group of parishes lead by a bishop
- BENEDICTION
- prelminary step toward communization of a saint
- CHANCELLOR
- notary of a diocese who draws up written documents for the goverments of a diocese
- COMMUNION OF SAINTS
- all baptized people of God on earth and in heaven
- CLERGY
- men ordained to holy orders and assingned to past oral, others ministries for the service of the people and the church
- ANGELS
- Spiritual being without bodies created bt God
- ASCETICISM
- pratice of self desicipline motivated by love of God and contributes to growth in holiness
- ABSOLUTION
- the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- CHARISMS
- gifts of graces given by God to people for the good of others
- CHASTITY
- properly ordered behavior with respect to sex
- CONCELEBRATION
- mass celebrated by more than one priest
- ARCHDIOCESE
- an ecclesiatical jurisiticion headed by an archbishop
- BLASPHEMY
- a thought, word, or act that makes fun of or shows contempt or hatred for God, the Church and the Saints
- CONTRITION
- regret/ remorse