Catholic Christianity vocab

Paraclete

another name for the Holy Spirit that means “advocate, defender, or consoler”

evangelization

to bring the Good News of of Jesus Christ to others

church

• The Body of Christ

• community of people who love/have faith in God

• serve others under the Holy Spirit

• Roman Catholic Church is guided by the Pope and his bishops

mystery

• Applies to Blessed Trinity

• a reality filled with God’s invisible presence

sacrement

• is what it represents

• efficacious symbol of spiritual reality to which it points

• Jesus is the prime sacrament

efficacious symbol

brings about what it points to and brings about what it represents

laity

• all the members of the Church who have been Baptized but are not ordained

• participate in Jesus’s prophetic, priestly, kingly ministries

liturgy

• official public worship of the church

• the sacraments and the Divine Office are the Churches liturgy

• mass is the most important liturgical celebration

hierarchy

• official sacred leadership in the church made up of the Church’s ordained ministers, bishops, priests, deacons

• The symbol of unity is the Pope, Bishop of Rome, aka the successor of Saint Peter

evangelical counsels

To join consecrated life, you must vow to be celibate, personal poverty, respect the communities being joined

infallibility

Gift of spirit where the Pope and Bishops are protected from error when talking about a doctrine related to Christian faith or morals

marks of the church

Four signs of Chiris’s Church that make her his true Church

Marks: one, holy, catholic, apostolic

canon law

official body of rules that provide good order in the Catholic Church

canonization

certain holy men and women are with the Lord in Heaven and can serve as models of holiness

catholic

• Greek word meaning “universal or general”

• Christian community that is one, holy, catholic, apostolic

• open to all people all the time

• preaches fullness of Gods revelation in Jesus Christ

apostle

• def.-ambassador or one who is sent

• Pope and Bishops are sent to continue to preach, govern, and sanctify

• but all members of Christ’s body can preach

hersey

false teaching that denied essential truths of the Catholic faith

apostasy

the denial of faith

schism

break in Church because of failure to accept Pope as Vicar of Christ

ecumenism

the movement inspired by the Holy Spirit that seeks the union of all Christian religions and, eventually, the unity of all people

great schism

break between west (in Rome) and east (in the city of Constantinople) Churches

protestant

baptized Christian who believes in Christ but does not accept the teachings of the Catholic Church