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Flashcards by Kade Macdonald, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kade Macdonald
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Baptism | A sacrament through which a person is received into the Church. The candidate is bathed in water or has water poured on their head as a sign of death to sin and rising to new life. |
| Charity | A grace which enables people to love as Jesus loves. It empowers a person to love God for God’s sake and other people for God’s sake. |
| Confirmation | A sacrament in which candidates are anointed by a bishop, who calls on the Holy Spirit to come upon them in order to strengthen their faith. |
| Courage | Ability to rise above personal challenges and fears, even in the face of death |
| Decalogue | Another name for the Ten Commandments |
| Detraction | To repeat something that, while true, damages another person’s right to a good reputation. |
| Emotions | Feelings that motivate people to behave in certain ways. |
| Grace | The free gift of the presence and action of God in the world and the lives of believers. |
| Knowledge | Ability to come to know God better and to learn new lessons from experiences of God |
| Love | To will the good for another – St Thomas Aquinas |
| Reverence | Ability to keep growing in respect for God and the things of God |
| Right Judgment | Ability to judge the true value of everything |
| Sacrament | A visible and effective sign of the invisible reality of God’s grace. |
| Scriptures | The revealed word of God written in human words under the process of inspiration. |
| Ten Commandments | Rules for human conduct given to Moses on Mt Sinai which summarise all of God’s laws. |
| Two Great Commandments | The two laws given by Jesus to love God and to love others. |
| Understanding | Ability to understand, like Jesus, the meaning of God’s actions |
| Will | A person’s ability to control their actions in order to do what is in the best interests of themselves and others. |
| Wisdom | Ability to see the good in everything God does |
| Wonder and Awe | Ability to keep returning love to God for all God’s gifts |
| Absolution | Forgiveness of a confessed sin by Jesus operating through the priest |
| Anointing the Sick | A sacrament of healing given to people who are seriously ill or in danger of dying in order to provide spiritual healing and bring them closer to God. |
| Confession | Owning up honestly about sins committed, accepting responsibility for them. |
| Contrition | Genuine sorrow for sins, with the firm resolve not to commit them again. |
| Eucharist | The sacrament by which believers share in the Paschal mystery of Christ’s death and resurrection by receiving his Body and Blood in the form of bread and wine. |
| Examination of Conscience | A process of reflecting on one’s own thoughts, words and action in light of God’s law in order to develop the power to love as a Christian. |
| Grace | The free gift of the presence and action of God in the world and the lives of believers. |
| Last Rites | The three sacraments which together prepare a person to pass from this world to God, these are Reconciliation, Anointing and Holy Communion |
| Penance | An action given by the priest to a person who has confessed their sins in the rite of Reconciliation as part of the element of Satisfaction. |
| Resurrection | The event where Jesus overcame the power of death by God’s saving power. |
| Sacrament | A visible and effective sign of the invisible reality of God’s grace. |
| Sacrament of Penance (also called Reconciliation) | The sacrament which brings about healing, forgiveness and reconciliation with God, with the Church and with the human community. |
| Satisfaction | Doing whatever is possible to repair harm or offence caused by a sin, this has two parts: the penance and the Prayer of Sorrow. |
| Viaticum | Literally ‘provision for the journey’, this is the Holy Communion received as part of the Last Rites. |
| Courage | To be able to rise personal challenges and fears, even in the face od death. |
| Reverence | To be able to keep growing in awarness. |
| Knowledge | To be able to understand, as Jesus does. |
| Understanding | To be able to understand as Jesus does. |
| Wisdom | The ability to see everyone in every situation |
| Wonder and Awe | To be able to keep returning love to God |
| Right Judgement | To be able to judge the true value of everything |
| Freedom from original sin | Power to overcome selfishness and temptations to do wrong |
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