Sacraments: Vocab Words

Question 1

Sacrament

Answer 1

An efficacious and visible sign of God’s grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed.

Question 2

Symbol

Answer 2

An object or action that points us to another reality. It leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery.

Question 3

Ritual

Answer 3

The established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often. The actions often have a symbolic meaning.

Question 4

Sanctifying Grace

Answer 4

“Set apart of declared holy”

Question 5

Actual Grace

Answer 5

“Existing in fact, typically contrasted” something that’s given and not there.

Question 6

a sign demonstrative

Answer 6

“is a sign demonstrative of the present invisible sacred realities”

Question 7

moral sign obligating

Answer 7

is a moral sign obligating even now in the present to the future actions in the life of him who receives the sanctification and renders worship

Question 8

a sign commemorative

Answer 8

is a sign commemorative of Christ’s saving action, especially of his Passion and death

Question 9

a sign prophetic

Answer 9

is a sign . . . prophetic of the heavenly glory and of the worship in the future Jerusalem

Question 10

Sacrament of Baptism

Answer 10

the first Sacrament of Initiation; through the pouring of water, or immersion into water, and the words of Baptism, Original Sin, and any personal sins committed…

Question 11

Ablutions

Answer 11

Ceremonial acts of washing parts of the body

Question 12

Original Sin

Answer 12

the loss of original holiness and justice in human nature, handed down from the first sin of Adam and Eve, our first parents.