ACRE pt 2

Holy Orders

________- the sacrament by which men are ordained to the priesthood or the diaconate.

Ascension

________- Christs return to heaven 40 days after His resurrection.

Canonization

________- the Churchs official process by which she (Christ) declares someone a saint.

Faith

________- the theological virtue by which one believes in all that God has revealed.

Assumption

________- the dogma that teaches that the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken body and soul into heaven immediately upon her death.

Baptism

________- the first of the seven sacraments.

Angel

________- a spiritual creature who glorifies God without ceasing.

Heresy

the obstinate denial by a baptized person of some truth that must be believed with divine faith.

Dogma

________- a revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the Church.

Covenant

________- a solemn promise between people or between God and man.

Heaven

________- the eternal state of supreme happiness with God.

Ecumenism

________- the efforts to reunite all Christians on earth and to cooperate among faith traditions in achieving common goals.

Evangelization

________- the mission given by Christ to the apostles to preach the gospel to the whole world and make converts in every nation.

Catechumenate

________- a process used in the early Church to educate and prepare those who wished to become Catholic.

Christ

________- Greek for anointed; used to refer to Jesus because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission of priest, prophet, and king.

Eucharist

________- comes from the Greek word meaning thanksgiving; the Sacrament by which bread and wine are consecrated by a priest and become the true Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus.

Annunciation

________- The visit of the Archangel Gabriel to announce that she would be the Mother of God.

Idolatry

________- the worship of idols, or false gods.

Confirmation

________- one of the Sacraments of Initiation; it completes the Baptismal cycle by a special outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Abraham

________- Hebrew for "father of a multitude, "and founder of the nation of Israel.

Divine Inspiration

________- the special guidance that the Holy Spirit gave to the human authors of the Bible to ensure that there are no errors in God's Word.

Communion of Saints

________- the unity in Christ of all the redeemed, especially those on earth and those who have died and are in heaven or Purgatory.

Apostolic Succession

________- the truth that the bishops of the Church, through their ordination, can trace their authority in an uninterrupted, unbroken chain of succession directly back to the Apostles and Christ.

Immaculate Conception

________- the dogma defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854 that states that from the moment of her conception in her mothers womb, Mary was free from the stain of original sin.

Deposit of Faith

________- the definitive revelation of Christ given to the Apostles, and through them, to the entire Church as Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.

Catholic

Greek meaning “universal”.  It is also the name of the universal Church established by Christ

Church

the entire assembly of the people of God all over the world; comes from the Greek word *ekklesia*

Divine Revelation

God making Himself known to us.  The two sources of Divine Revelation are Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

Four Marks of the Church

the four characteristics of the Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed; they are *one, holy, catholic, and apostolic*

Hell

the eternal state of separation and exclusion from God’s presence; the dwelling of Satan and the other fallen angels