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Flashcards by Kade Macdonald, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kade Macdonald
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Character | The combination of features and traits such as virtues and vices that form the individual nature of a person. |
| Courage | The Ability to rise above personal challenges and fears, even in the face of death |
| Ideals | The best possible standards people would like to achieve in their lives. |
| Knowledge | Ability to come to know God better and to learn new lessons from experiences of God |
| Original Sin | The human tendency to disobey God inherited from the first parents of the human race. |
| Reverence | Ability to keep growing in respect for God and the things of God and others |
| Right Judgment | Ability to judge the true value of everything |
| Saints | All baptised people including those in heaven, purgatory and those still alive in the world. |
| Self-mastery | Being strong-willed enough to have control over one’s thoughts, emotions and actions. |
| Soul | The immortal spirit in each living human person. |
| Spirituality | Seeking, sensing and thinking about meaning and purpose in life that connects a person with something greater than themselves. |
| Understanding | Ability to understand, like Jesus, the meaning of God’s actions |
| Virtue | A habit of doing what is good. |
| Vice | A habit of doing what is wrong. |
| Wisdom | Ability to see the good in everything God does |
| Wonder and Awe | Ability to keep returning love to God for all God’s gifts |
| Assumption | The event in the life of Mary when at the end of her life she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven. |
| Christ | The Greek form of the word Messiah. One filled with the Spirit of God who would deliver his people and establish God’s reign in the world. |
| Crucifixion | A form of punishment used to execute people guilty of serious crimes by being roped or nailed to a T-shaped cross and left to die. |
| Gospel | A literary form used in ancient times to announce good news. Used by Christians to tell the story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. |
| Immaculate Conception | The doctrine that the Holy Spirit preserved Mary from original sin from the moment of her conception. |
| Marian devotions | Special feast days, celebrations and prayers that honour Mary as Mother of God and Mother of the Church |
| Messiah | ‘The Anointed One’. One filled with the Spirit of God who would deliver his people and establish God’s reign in the world. |
| Miracle | An event for which there is no human explanation but which points to the action of God. |
| Parable | A saying or story used to illustrate a teaching. A comparison by which earthly things convey a spiritual or heavenly meaning. |
| Redeem | To recover something of value by one’s effort or a payment of some kind. Applied to Jesus recovering people from sin by sacrificing his life on the cross. |
| Resurrection | The event where Jesus overcame the power of death by God’s saving power. |
| Son of Man | Someone who would receive power over all the nations of the earth in the act of establishing the Kingdom of God. |
| The Cross | The chief symbol of the Christian faith and a reminder that Jesus died for all people on a cross. |
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