8 Glossary

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Groups that help all who belong to them develop their human potential.

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Community

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The final step in the Catholic Church recognising a person as being exceptionally close to God and conferring the title ‘Saint’.

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Canonisation

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A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Catholic

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Someone who believes in Christ and follows his teachings.

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Christian

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The community or the ‘assembly of baptised believers’ within whom God dwells.

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Church

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The most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Christ.

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Easter

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An announcement of good news. The story of the victory of Jesus and the Kingdom of God over Satan and evil.

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Gospel

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A local community of the Christian faithful under the care of a parish priest.

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Parish

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Petition, Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving

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Prayer

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A visible and effective sign of the invisible reality of God’s grace.

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Sacrament

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All who share the gifts that God gives through baptism, particularly those who have been canonised.

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Saint

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The teachings handed on by the Apostles and the ways these teachings are handed on under the Holy Spirit’s guidance.

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Tradition

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One who saw the Risen Christ and was sent by him to proclaim the Gospel, being given the authority to teach, sanctify and govern.

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Apostle

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The event where Jesus overcame the power of death by God’s saving power.

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Resurrection

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An angel who turned away from God following the lead of Satan

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Demon

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Feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin.

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Repent

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The range of God’s effective will

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Kingdom of God

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Connected with or characteristics of God.

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Divine

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The mystery where God became fully human when Jesus was born of human flesh and blood.

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Incarnation

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The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons in one God.

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Trinity

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A repetitive ceremonial activity with fixed rules, such as the rite of ordination.

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Rite

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A teaching based on the person and work of Jesus that comes to people through the Church.

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Doctrine

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The practice of giving money or food to poor people

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Almsgiving

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A Catholic international aid and development agency.

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Caritas

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The week before Easter, starting on Palm Sunday.

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Holy Week

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A season of new spiritual life when Catholics recall what Christ has done for them by renewed efforts to repent and believe.

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Lent

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An international Catholic voluntary organisation dedicated to serving the poor and disadvantaged.

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Saint Vincent de Paul

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1. The divine act by which the world was brought into existence. 2. The world and everything in it.

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Creation

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The raising of one's heart and mind to God or the requesting of good things from God.

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Prayer

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An established set of actions and procedures in which a sacred purpose is achieved.

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Religious Ritual

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Manufactured objects with symbolic meaning used in worship.

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Sacred Objects

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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.

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Eucharist

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Twenty-Seven books of the Bible that relate the experiences of God through Jesus and the early Church.

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New Testament

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Forty-six books, all relating experiences of God by the people of Israel before the coming of Jesus.

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Old Testament

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A place marked for holy or religious purposes.

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Sacred Places

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Rules for human conduct given to Moses on Mt Sinai which summarise all of God's laws.

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Ten Commandments

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A sacred verbal agreement that bestows rights and requires obligations.

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Covenant

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The second book in the Old testament that tells the story of the escape of the Israelite people from slavery in Egypt under the leadership of Moses.

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Exodus

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A Jewish feast celebrating God's action of saving his people from slavery and death in Egypt.

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Passover

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The Fathers of the Israelite nation, these were the twelve sons of Israel.

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Patriarchs

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The offering of something to God in order to please Him.

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Sacrifice

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One of the names for 'God', first revealed to Moses.

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Yahweh

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'The Anointed One'. One filled with the Spirit of God who would deliver his people and establish God's reign in the world.

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Messiah