Thology 1
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- Coucil
- A formal meeting of Church leaders to deliberate, clarify, study and enact decrees pertaining to the life and belief of the Church.
- Decree on the Laity
- Official pronouncement announcing that all the baptized are called to perfection of life and to evangelize all who they meet.
- Dry Martyr
- A witness to the truth of the faith who suffers social persecution rather than death.
- Grace
- The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to becomre his adopted children.
- Holiness
- An attribute of God describing his complete separation from the sphere of the profane. Individual human beings may be holy dedicating themselves completely to God. Holiness is the perfection of charity.
- Laity
- The faithful who, having been incorporated into Christ through Baptism, are made part of the people of God, the Church. They are not in Holy Orders or the consecrated life.
- Martyr
- A witness to the truth of the faith, in which he or she endures even death to be faithful to Christ.
- Saint
- A person on earth, in purgatory, or in heaven notable for holiness and heroic virtue.
- Sanctification
- Process of being made holy. This begins with Baptism, continues throughout the life of the Christian, and is completed when a person enters heaven.
- Spiritual Reading
- All reading that leads us to prayer and closer union with God.