Sunday, December 16, 2012

Terms and Definitions


Introductory Unit
Heart – The center (locus) or the human person
X and Arrows – diagram describing how Christianity is the only religion in human history that claims that the divine comes down to reality to save man (as opposed to man attempting to ascend to the divine)
Desire – an external want or longing that a person has that originates from an uncontrollable cause
Reality – the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; the quality possessed by something that is real
Ontology – the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
Being – the state or fact of existing
4 truths – I did not create myself; I have impossible desires; I have limited powers; I expect to be happy.
Anointing of the Sick
Original sin – sin inherited by all descendants of Adam
Viaticum – the Eucharist as given to a person near or in danger of death
Presbyters - An elder or minister of the Christian Church
Extreme unction - A former name for the sacrament of anointing of the sick, esp. when administered to the dying
Stations of the cross - a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings of Jesus’s passion
Who may administer? - Every priest, and only a priest, validly administers the anointing of the sick.
Who may receive? - The anointing of the sick can be administered to a member of the faithful who, after having reached the use of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or old age.
Reconciliation
Penance – The punishment undertaken in token of penitence for sin
Confession- A penitent privately admitting his or her sins to a priest
Forgiveness – the pardoning of one’s sins and starting anew in Christ
Conversion – 1. The act or an instance of converting or the process of being converted. 2. The fact of changing one's religion or beliefs or the action of persuading someone else to change theirs.
Ten Commandments –
1.Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2.Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3.Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4.Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5.Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6.Thou shalt not kill.
7.Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8.Thou shalt not steal.
9.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Empathy - The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Venial Sin - A relatively slight sin that does not entail damnation of the soul
Matrimony
Declaration of nullity - In the Roman Catholic Church, annulment is a canonical procedure according to the Church's Canon Law whereby an ecclesial tribunal judges whether the bond of matrimony in a particular case was entered into validly.
Polygamy - The practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.
Divorce - The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body
Fidelity - Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
Nuptial blessing - Prayers for the blessing of a couple being married, especially of the bride
Natural family planning - any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs
Abortion - The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy
Holy Orders
Diocese - A district under the pastoral care of a Christian bishop.
Vicar - A representative or deputy of a bishop
Synod of Bishops - A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.
Ecumenical council - a synod of the whole church.
Infallibility - The doctrine that the pope is incapable of error in pronouncing dogma.
Imprimatur - An official license by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book.
Dalmatic - The dalmatic is a long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment
Stole - A strip of fabric used as an ecclesiastical vestment, worn over the shoulders and hanging down to the knee or below.
Baptism
Defn – Initiation into the church and birth into a life with Christ
Matter – Water
Form - I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Catechumen - A Christian convert under instruction before baptism
Concupiscence - Strong sexual desire; lust.
Conditional baptism – a baptism in which the validity of the original baptism is in doubt
RCIA process- avenue to converting to Catholicism, culminating in the baptism\
Confirmation
Defn - The rite at which a baptized person affirms Christian belief and is admitted as a full member of the church.
Matter - Hand on the person and anointing him with chrism (blessed oil)
Form - Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Minister – Bishop
Fruits of the Spirit – Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Gifts of the spirit – understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the lord, wisdom
Pentecost - The Christian festival celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after his Ascension, held on the seventh Sunday after Easter
Chrismation - A rite in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches that is comparable and similar to confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church
Eucharist
Defn - The Christian ceremony commemorating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine (Jesus) are consecrated and consumed
Transcendence - Existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level
Transubstantiation - The conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still remaining
Tabernacle - An ornamented receptacle or cabinet in which a pyx or ciborium containing the reserved sacrament may be placed in Catholic churches, usually on or above an altar
Consecrate - At the Mass, the act of transforming bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. 
Matter – wheaten bread and wine
Form - This is my body; for it is written: Whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to his disciples, and said: Take and eat, This is My Body
Designated minister - priest

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