Flashcards
Term 2 Flash Cards
Flashcards do conjunto (29)
- 1CharacterThe combination of features and traits such as virtues and vices that form the individual nature of a person.
- 2CourageThe Ability to rise above personal challenges and fears, even in the face of death
- 3IdealsThe best possible standards people would like to achieve in their lives.
- 4KnowledgeAbility to come to know God better and to learn new lessons from experiences of God
- 5Original SinThe human tendency to disobey God inherited from the first parents of the human race.
- 6ReverenceAbility to keep growing in respect for God and the things of God and others
- 7Right JudgmentAbility to judge the true value of everything
- 8SaintsAll baptised people including those in heaven, purgatory and those still alive in the world.
- 9Self-masteryBeing strong-willed enough to have control over one’s thoughts, emotions and actions.
- 10SoulThe immortal spirit in each living human person.
- 11SpiritualitySeeking, sensing and thinking about meaning and purpose in life that connects a person with something greater than themselves.
- 12UnderstandingAbility to understand, like Jesus, the meaning of God’s actions
- 13VirtueA habit of doing what is good.
- 14ViceA habit of doing what is wrong.
- 15WisdomAbility to see the good in everything God does
- 16Wonder and AweAbility to keep returning love to God for all God’s gifts
- 17AssumptionThe event in the life of Mary when at the end of her life she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven.
- 18ChristThe Greek form of the word Messiah. One filled with the Spirit of God who would deliver his people and establish God’s reign in the world.
- 19CrucifixionA form of punishment used to execute people guilty of serious crimes by being roped or nailed to a T-shaped cross and left to die.
- 20GospelA literary form used in ancient times to announce good news. Used by Christians to tell the story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
- 21Immaculate ConceptionThe doctrine that the Holy Spirit preserved Mary from original sin from the moment of her conception.
- 22Marian devotionsSpecial feast days, celebrations and prayers that honour Mary as Mother of God and Mother of the Church
- 23Messiah‘The Anointed One’. One filled with the Spirit of God who would deliver his people and establish God’s reign in the world.
- 24MiracleAn event for which there is no human explanation but which points to the action of God.
- 25ParableA saying or story used to illustrate a teaching. A comparison by which earthly things convey a spiritual or heavenly meaning.
- 26RedeemTo recover something of value by one’s effort or a payment of some kind. Applied to Jesus recovering people from sin by sacrificing his life on the cross.
- 27ResurrectionThe event where Jesus overcame the power of death by God’s saving power.
- 28Son of ManSomeone who would receive power over all the nations of the earth in the act of establishing the Kingdom of God.
- 29The CrossThe chief symbol of the Christian faith and a reminder that Jesus died for all people on a cross.