Vocab 13

Question 0

Prayerful self-reflection on our words and deeds in the light of the Gospel to determine how we may have sinned against God. The reception of the Sacrament of Penance ought to be prepared for by such an examination of conscience.

Answer 0

Examination of conscience

Question 1

The interior voice of a human being, within whose heart the inner law of God is inscribed. It moves a person at the appropriate moment to do good and to avoid evil.

Answer 1

Conscience

Question 2

The remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven.

Answer 2

Indulgence

Question 3

Destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s Law; it turns man away from God, who is His ultimate end and His beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to Him.

Answer 3

Mortal sin

Question 4

Interior: a conversion of heart toward God and away from sin, which implies the intention to change one’s life because of hope in divine mercy. Exterior: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving.

Answer 4

Penancec

Question 5

A willful act, such as theft, that is contrary to a negative precept, such as do not steal.

Answer 5

Sin of commission

Question 6

Willful neglect or positive refusal to perform some good action, such as attending Mass, that one’s conscience urges one to do.

Answer 6

Sin of omission

Question 7

Purification of the unhealthy attachment to creatures either during our earthly life through prayer and conversion which comes from fervent charity, or after death in purgatory, as a consequence of sin.

Answer 7

Temporal punishment

Question 8

Sin which diminishes and wounds the divine life in the soul; the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent of the will.

Answer 8

Veinal sin