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- 4. archangel who was the special messenger of God to the Blessed Mother
- 7. an expression of selfless concern for others
- 10. Latin for "let it be done"
- 13. Christ gives his disciples these during the Sermon on the Mount
- 16. gives actual grace so Christ's life increasingly animates the soul
- 17. the intervention of Jesus Christ, the Word of God, in the world begins
- 19. St. John describes God as this
- 20. Mary's obedience atoned for Eve's ___
- 23. the kind of grace that makes us holy
- 24. willingness to abandon worldly riches
- 26. "God is with us"
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- 1. sacrament necessary to participate in God's divine life
- 2. Jesus prepared for the culminating event of his life by doing this in the Garden of Gethsemane
- 3. the entire purpose of the mystery of the incarnation was to ___ fallen humanity and to save us from our sins
- 5. free and unmerited favor of God given through the sacraments and is infused in our souls
- 6. Christ humbly enduring the mockery, sadistic abuse, ans shameful Death teaches us this virtue
- 8. atones for all sin and renews the soul
- 9. Christ models this through his conformity to the will of his Father in heaven
- 11. being made right with God, free and undeserved
- 12. identifies himself as "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"
- 14. the mystery of the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in the one divine person
- 15. the entire revelation of the most High God is summed up in
- 18. "God saves"
- 21. reparation for an offense through a voluntary action that expiates the injustice done
- 22. a divinely revealed truth whose very possibility cannot be fully understood by the finite mind
- 25. Christ teaches us this through his desire to save all people from the ravages of sin
