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- 1. The ten rules for a moral life given by God to His Chosen People through Moses on Mount Sinai. The first three Commandments teach us how to love God; the last seven teach us how to love our neighbor as ourselves.
- 4. A span of existence that stretches infinitely into the past and future, without beginning or end.
- 5. A call from God to a permanent state of life: ordained priesthood, consecrated religious life, or Marriage.
- 7. Signs of God’s grace that actually gives the grace they signify. Jesus founded seven: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Holy Matrimony.
- 8. An attraction, either from outside oneself or from within, to act contrary to right reason and the commandments of God.
- 11. The end, goal, or purpose for which each of us is created by God, which is to be with Him forever in Heaven.
- 13. God’s calling of every Christian to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity.
- 15. Jesus’ most important moral teaching, found in Matthew 5, in which He explains the divine principles of justice guiding us to the narrow path that leads to Heaven
- 16. The process of growing in relationship with Jesus, learning from His teachings and example, and journeying on the path of life as His disciple.
- 17. Loving actions taught to us by Christ that help us meet a person’s physical needs: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned, and bury the dead.
- 18. Someone, rather than something, with the inherent capability of self-knowledge, self-possession, and of freely giving themself in love to another person.
- 19. A holy person who leads a life in union with God through the grace of Christ and receives the reward of eternal life, or Heaven.
- 20. The Sacrament in which we receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine. It is the source and summit of our Christian life and spiritual food for the soul. Not merely a symbol, it is Jesus’ true Flesh and Blood.
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- 2. The response due from man to God’s revelation of Himself: to listen and freely submit to the Word of God.
- 3. The raising one's mind and heart to God in praise of His glory, asking for some desired good, giving thanks, or asking for His blessing on others. A relationship with God.
- 6. The Sacrament is the Sacrament in which we confess our sins when we are truly sorry for them and receive forgiveness from God through a priest. This Sacrament reunites us with God and His Church and fills us with sanctifying grace.
- 9. Followers, or students, of Jesus. Jesus had thousands of them. All Christians today are His students. Sometimes used interchangeably in the Gospels to refer to the Twelve Apostles.
- 10. The state of being holy, or set apart by God. It is the fullness of the Christian life and the perfection of charity. We do not make ourselves holy; rather, holiness comes from God’s initiative.
- 12. The teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount on the meaning and way to true happiness or fulfillment.
- 14. The Christian mystery revealed to us by God that He is three Persons in one God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.