Religion Test Honors

Old Covenant

The series of promises made by God to His Chosen People, Israel, described in the Old Testament, and which is fulfilled in the new and everlasting covenant in Jesus Christ.

New Covenant

The new and everlasting covenant won for us by Christ’s Paschal Mystery. In this covenant is the fulfillment if centuries of prophecies and all of God’s promises for the forgiveness of sins. We are made members of the New Covenant by our Baptism, and we renew and participate in the covenant every time we receive the Eucharist. All people are invited to be members of the New Covenant.

Salvation History

The story of God’s love and mercy revealed to us throughout human history, culminating in Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and Resurrection from the dead, which won for us Salvation from sin and death.

Covenant

A sacred, permanent bond of family relationship. God entered into a series of covenants with His people throughout Salvation history to invite us to be part of His divine family and to prepare us gradually and in stages, in words and deeds, to receive the gift of Salvation.

Public Revelation

The revelation God has given the world, handed on by the Church and preserved in Sacred Scripture and tradition. The time of public revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle. We await no further Public Revelation.

Private Revelation

Revelation made in the course of history to a particular person or persons which doesn’t add to ot form part of the deposit of faith, but rather may help people live out their faith more fully. Some private revelations have been recognized by the authority of the Church.

Church

The name given to the assembly of the People of God whom He has called together from all ends of the earth. It is both the earthly institution established by Christ during His earthly life to mediate the gift of Salvation on earth, and the heavenly communion of all the saints together with God and His angels.

Messiah

The Hebrew word for “anointed one” and the title given to the Savior God promised to the people of Israel.

Kingdom of Heaven

God’s reign, or rule, over all things. During this public ministry, Jesus proclaimed that the Kingdom of Heaven (or the Kingdom of God) was at hand. The Church is the seed, or beginning, of the Kingdom here on earth, which will be fulfilled in Heaven.

Incarnation

The fact that the son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our Salvation Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, is both true God and true man.

Pentecost

The day when Jesus sent the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Apostles and the Church was born, fifty days after Jesus’ Resurrection (10 days after his Ascension into Heaven). Mary and the Apostles gathered in the upper room and were filled with the holy spirit, who came in a rush of wind and appeared as tongues of fire over their heads.

Catholic

Universal

Totus Christus

Latin for “whole Christ.” An Augustinian doctrine that the saints and angels in Heaven, the souls in Purgatory, and the faithful on earth make up Christ’s Mystical Body. The Church, united with Christ, who is her head, makes up the “Whole Christ.”

Parousia

Word for the Second Coming of Christ. From the ancient Greek word for “arrival” or “official visit.”

Nicene Creed

The Profession of Faith set forth by the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, and recited at every Sunday Mass, which affirms the essential tenets of the Christian faith and belief in the Holy Trinity.

Four Marks of the Church

Four essential and definitive characteristics of the Roman Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ: She is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.