Quiz 5
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- FASTING
- Refraining from food and drink as an expression of interior penance, in imitation of the fast of Jesus for forty days in the desert. Fasting is an ascetical practice recommended in Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers; it is sometimes prescribed by a precept of the Church, especially during the liturgical season of Lent
- EVIL
- The opposite or absence of good. One form of evil, physical evil, is a result of the "state of journeying" toward its ultimate perfection in which God created the world, involving the existence of the less perfect alongside the more perfect, the constructive and the destructive forces of nature, the appearance and disappearance of certain beings
- EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE
- Prayerful self-reflection on our words and deeds in the light of the Gospel to determine how we may have sinned against God.
- GENERAL CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION
- A communal form of the Sacrament of Penance in which, in a case of grave necessity, a priest may give absolution to all persons present at one time, after they have made a general, but not individual, confession of their sins.
- FAITH
- Both a gift of God and a human act by which the believer gives personal adherence to God who invites his response, and freely assents to the whole truth that God has revealed.
- FEAST DAYS
- The annual cycle of liturgical celebrations commemorating the saving mysteries of Christ's life, as a participation in the Paschal Mystery, which is celebrated annually at Easter, the "Feast of feasts." Feast days commemorating Mary, the Mother of God, and the saints are also celebrated, providing the faithful with examples of those who have been glorified with Christ
- EXPIATION
- The act of redemption and atonement for sin which Christ won for us by the pouring out of his Blood on the cross, by his obedient love "even to the end"The act of redemption and atonement for sin which Christ won for us by the pouring out of his Blood on the cross, by his obedient love "even to the end"
- GOD
- The infinite divine being, one in being yet three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has revealed himself as the "One who is," as truth and love, as creator of all that is, as the author of divine revelation, and as the source of salvation (
- FATHERS OF THE CHURCH
- Church teachers and writers of the early centuries whose teachings are a witness to the Tradition of the Church
- EXODUS
- God's saving intervention in history by which he liberated the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt, made a covenant with them, and brought them into the Promised Land. The Book of Exodus, the second of the Old Testament, narrates this saving history
- GLUTTONY
- Overindulgence in food or drink. Gluttony is one of the seven capital sins
- GENUFLECTION
- A reverence made by bending the knee, especially to express adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
- EVANGELICAL COUNSELS
- In general, the teachings of the New Law proposed by Jesus to his disciples which lead to the perfection of Christian life. In the New Law, the precepts are intended to remove whatever is incompatible with charity; the evangelical counsels are to remove whatever might hinder the development of charity, even if not contrary to it
- FATHER, GOD, THE
- God, the first Person of the Blessed Trinity.
- EVANGELIST
- One of the four authors to whom is ascribed the writing of the Gospels, i.e., Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (125, 120). The term is also used for one who works actively to spread and promote the Christian faith
- EVANGELIZATION
- The proclamation of Christ and his Gospel (Greek: evangelion) by word and the testimony of life, in fulfillment of Christ's command
- FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- The perfections that the Holy Spirit forms in us as the "first fruits" of eternal glory.
- FORNICATION
- Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman
- EVE
- According to the creation story in Genesis, the first woman; wife of Adam. God did not create man a solitary being; from the beginning, "male and female he created them"
- EXCOMMUNICATION
- A severe ecclesiastical penalty, resulting from grave crimes against the Catholic religion, imposed by ecclesiastical authority or incurred as a direct result of the commission of an offense.
- FEAR OF THE LORD
- One of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit which ensures our awe and reverence before God
- GENESIS
- the first book of Bible, which describes God
- EUTHANASIA
- An action or an omission which, of itself or by intention, causes the death of handicapped, sick, or dying persons--sometimes with an attempt to justify the act as a means of eliminating suffering. Euthanasia violates the fifth commandment of the law of God
- EXORCISM
- The public and authoritative act of the Church to protect or liberate a person or object from the power of the devil (e.g., demonic possession) in the name of Christ
- GODPARENT
- The sponsor of one who is baptized, who assumes a responsibility to assist the newly-baptized--child or adult--on the road of Christian life
- FILIOQUE
- A word meaning "and (from) the Son," added to the Latin version of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, by which the Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son"
- FAITHFUL, THE CHRISTIAN
- Those who have been incorporated into Christ in Baptism and constituted as the people of God, the Church
- FALL
- Biblical revelation about the reality of sin in human history. The Biblical story begins with the original sin freely committed by the first human beings.
- EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
- Canon of the Mass; The central part of the Mass, also known as the Eucharistic Prayer or "anaphora," which contains the prayer of thanksgiving and consecration
- EXTREME UNCTION
- Anointing of the Sick; One of the seven sacraments, also known as the "sacrament of the dying," administered by a priest to a baptized person who begins to be in danger of death because of illness or old age, through prayer and the anointing of the body with the oil of the sick
- FORTITUDE
- One of the four cardinal moral virtues which ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in doing the good
- GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Permanent dispositions that make us docile to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit. The traditional list of seven gifts of the Spirit is derived from Isaiah 11:1-3: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, piety, fortitude, and fear of the Lord