Popular piety and the Church's spiritual role

original sin

everyone is born with as a result of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in Eden

purgatory

where souls suffer for a suitable time to make them sufficiently pure for heaven, time determined by their good works and prayers said for them after death

indulgences

sins forgiven through confession can be lessened through a type of pardon

Mass

Most important service activities in the Catholic; in the sacrament of the Eucharist the priest blesses bread and wine as Jesus, transubstantiation through the prayers

transubstantation

the substance of the bread and wine changes miraculously at consecration into Christ’s body and blood, remaining in the same appearance