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Unit 1 Flashcards

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Incarnation

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  • A word that means “taking on human flesh”
  • Jesus is the incarnation of God
  • In Jesus, God took a human form
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Jesus as Primordial Sacrament

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  • Jesus is the prime sacrament

- He points to God’s love while at the same time he is God’s love for us as he reconciles the world to his Father

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Sacrament

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-A religious ceremony or act of the Christian Church that is regarded as an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual divine grace

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How Church and Communion of Saints participate in the sacraments

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  • Communion with Christ
    - An intimate/ organic bond
    - Lose our connection w/ Christ, we lose our connection to grace
  • Communion with other Catholics
    - Many different people are part of a parish
    - Don’t always get along, yet we are all together at Church
  • Communion with people around the world
    - Social Justice: A form of justice that treats all people fairly and equally, according to their due
    - Involves fair treatment of individuals
    - Also involves the structures of society that protects or opress the rights of certain people
  • Communion of Saints
    - All those who have come before us
    - When we celebrate the sacraments, we celebrate with the saints
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Hypostatic Union

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-The doctrine of faith that recognizes two natures (one human, one divine) in the one divine person of Jesus

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Grace/ Sacrament Grace

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  • A participation in the life and love of the Trinity that comes to us through the sacraments
  • Each sacrament brings us a different dimension of God’s life and love
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Types of Sacraments

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  • Sacrament of Initiation:
    - Baptism
    - Confirmation
    - Communion
  • Sacrament of Healing:
    - Penance
    - Anointing of the Sick
  • Sacrament of Commitment:
    - Matrimony
    - Holy Orders
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Efficacious

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  • A sign that points to God’s presence, and also makes his experience reality in the here and now
  • Jesus is a sign of God’s love, and he also effects that love and makes it present
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Human Solidarity

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  • The virtue of social charity, friendship, and responsible sharing -we recognize our interdependence on others
  • we are all brothers and sisters of one family under a loving Father
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Apostolic Succession

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-An unbroken chain of power and authority connecting the pope and bishops to St. Peter and the 12 apostles of Jesus

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Sacraments of Christ

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-All sacraments have Christ as their minister and source

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Sacraments of the Church

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  • Church has the authority to minister the graces
  • Ministerial Priesthood & common priesthood
  • Sacraments cant be re-preformed (sacramental character)
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Sacraments of Faith

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  • lex orandi, lex credendi: As we pray, so we believe

- Priest makes sacraments possible, does not depend on his character

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Sacraments of Salvation

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  • Sacraments work to save us
  • Opere Operato: By the very fact of the action, the Holy Spirit preforms independently of the priest performing sacrifice
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Sacraments of Eternal Life

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-Marana Tha: “O Lord, come”

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Form vs Matter

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  • Form: The shape or qualities that the matter takes that make it what it is
  • Matter: The stuff thats there (physical element)
  • All sacraments have form and matter
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Baptism

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  • Matter: Water (immersion or pouring water on person)

- Form: saying “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”

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Confirmation

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  • Matter: Oil (anointing with oil) & laying on of the hands
  • Form: “Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit”
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Eucharist

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  • Matter: bread and wine (eating them)

- Form:”Take this… this is my body… this is my blood”

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Reconciliation

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  • Matter: the sinner confessing and making up for sin
  • Form: “Through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon & peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Holy Spirit”
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Anointing of the Sick

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  • Matter: anointing the sick person with oil

- Form: “through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love & mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit”

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Holy Orders

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  • Matter: Laying on of hands, anointing the hands of the person being ordained
  • Form: “Grant, we pray, Almighty Father, to these, your servants, the dignity of the Priesthood; renew deep within the spirit of holiness..”
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Marriage

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  • Matter: Man & woman vowing their consent

- Form: “I N take you N to be my wife/husband, I promise to be true to you in goods times and in bad..”

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Easter Triduum:

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  • Three day liturgy
  • Most solemn celebration of the Paschal Mystery
  • Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday
  • Considered one single liturgy
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Sanctorial Cycle

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-The feast of saints found throughout the year of the Church’s liturgical calendar

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Ministerial Priesthood

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  • The priesthood of Christ received in the sacrament of Holy Orders
  • Its purpose is to serve the common priesthood by building up and guiding the Church in the name of Christ
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Common Priesthood

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  • The priesthood of the faithful
  • Christ made the Church a “Kingdom of priests” who share in his priesthood through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation
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Sabbath

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  • Hebrew word “Shabbat” = to cease
  • A weekly day of rest & worship in the Jewish faith
  • Jews observe Sabbath on the 7th day of the week
  • Christian Sabbath= Sunday (day Jesus rose from the dead)
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Lectio Divina

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  • Greek for “divine reading”

- Prayerful way to read the Bible or any other sacred reading

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Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi

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  • “As we pray, so we believe”

- Our prayers effect our beliefs

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Ex Opere Operato

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  • By the very fact of the actions being preformed

- The Holy Spirit works independently of the priest preforming the sacrifice/ sacrament

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Church Year

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  • Also called the Liturgical Year
  • Organizes the major events of Jesus’ life around the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time 1, Lent, Triduum, Easter, and Ordinary Time 2
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Holy day of obligation

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-One of several special days in the Church Year where all Catholics are obligated to participate in Mass

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Donatism

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  • Heresy that believed that is a priest did not have good moral character, the sacrament he preformed would not work
  • Holy spirit makes sacrament effective, not priest
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Catechumens

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  • A christian convert under instruction before baptism

- Lent began as a period of preparation for them

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Advent

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  • Beginning of the Church year
  • Season of preparation
  • Means “coming”
  • We wait and prepare:
    • To remember Jesus’ birth 2000 years ago
    • To look forward to his 2nd coming at the end of time
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Christmas

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  • Color= white
  • Celebration of Christ’s birth
  • 12 days long including:
    • Nativity
    • The Holy Family
    • The Epiphany
    • The Baptism of the Lord
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Ordinary Time

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  • Ordinal–> Numbered
  • Shows us how to follow Jesus in Ordinary Life
  • Feasts:
    • Jesus’ presentation in the temple
    • Transfiguration
    • Christ the King (final feast)
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Lent

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  • Means Springtime
  • Ash Wednesday begins Lent
  • Started as an intense period to prepare catechumens
  • 40 days
  • Color= purple
  • Period of fasting,almsgiving, all in preparation to celebrate the paschal mystery
  • Palm sunday= last sunday of lent (begins Holy Week)
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Easter

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  • Greatest Liturgy of the entire year
  • Celebrate Christ’s conquering of Death
  • read story of “Salvation History”
  • We welcome Catechumens into the Church
  • New paschal candle is lit
  • 50 days
  • ends at pentecost
  • Ascension= 40 days after easter
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Earthly signs Jesus used in the Gospel

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Water:

- Turned water into wine at a wedding in Cana
- Walked on water
- Used water to wash the feet of his disciples

Bread:

- Multiplied fish and loves of bread to feed the crowds
- Described God's Kingdom as the yeast used to make bread
- Served a breakfast of bread and fish to his Apostles

Oil:

- He talked about the need of oil for lamps in his Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids
- Showed how oil could heal wounds in his Parable of the Good Samaritan
- Allowed a sinful women to anoint his feet with perfumed oil

Human Touch/ Acceptance:

- Healed the sick people of Gennesaret
- Hugged little children and blessed them
- Cured a leper
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Furnishings of a Church

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  • Altar
  • Tabernacle
  • Chair
  • Ambo
  • Aumbry (with Oil of Catechumens and Oil of the Sick)
  • Baptisery
  • Reconciliation room

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