Religion Midterm Exam

Chapters 1-9

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Difficulty in prayer when a person's heart is separated from God.

Dryness

Form of prayer praising God for the good He has given us.

Thanksgiving

Acknowledgement of God as God in prayer Creator, Lord, Savior and Master of everything that exists.

Adoration

Form of prayer asking God to aid/help ourselves or others.

Petition

Sorrow of the soul and hatred for sins committed, to include resolution not to sin again.

Contrition

A witness to the truth in faith, to the point where the believer endures even unto death.

Martyr

Principally an attribute of God describing His complete separation from the sphere of sin or profane.

Holiness

Process of being made holy.

Sanctification

The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to become His adopted children.

Grace

A formal meeting of Church leaders.

Council

Who is called to holiness in the Church?

All Christians

Where do Councils get their names?

The city where the Council is held.

List two of the ways of attaining holiness.

Reconciliation & Eucharist

The purpose of Freedom is

to serve God better while we are on earth

In which century were the most Christian martyrs killed for Christ?

4th

Perfect prayer is praying

prayers that the church handed down to us like the Our Father

List two of the idols that men worship today

Hollywood stars and fancy cars

List 2 conditions that should be present for our prayers to be answered.

perseverance in our belief & humility

Why is the "Our Father" called the Lord's prayer?

Jesus taught us it and it tells us to recognize God as our Father

Earthly prayer prepares us for what type of prayer?

Heavenly

The Apostles and their successors.

Hierarchy

Literally "UNIVERSAL" in the sense of the body of believers remaining as a whole.

Catholicity of the Church

Successor of St Peter, Bishop of Rome

Pope

The living, teaching office of the Church

Magisterium

The belief that the Church is founded by the Apostles

Apostolicity of the Church

A divinely revealed truth whose very possibility cannot be rationally conceived or explained

mystery

Belief that the 3 persons of the Trinity while distinct are one and the same

Consubstantial

A person who believes that there is only one God, who is creator of all that is.

Monotheist

The fact that God's Son assumed became man in order to accomplish our salvation.

Incarnation

A name for the Holy Spirit meaning ADVOCATE

Paraclete

How long has the doctrine of the Trinity been taught>

Since the earliest days of the Church

Jesus Christ is both...

Completely God and completely man.

What is the first sacrament in which a person receives grace?

Baptism

The gift of the Holy Spirit that assisted human authors as they wrote the bible

Inspiration

The works of the Holy Spirit include...

grace, guiding the Church, Conceived Jesus in the womb of Mary

The church is an assembly of people that God chose who are direct descendants of..

Israel

Who established the Church?

Jesus Christ

Who is Head of the Church

Jesus Christ

What name did Christ give Simon when he was made the first Pope?

Peter

What did the Greek word for the name Peter mean

Cephas or the ROCK

The Charismatic gifts of the Church were brought by...

the Holy Spirit

Pre-Chrisitian Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture

Spetuagint

Those books and passages in the OLD Testament about the controversy in early Church history

Deuterocanonical

Revealed teachings of Christ which are proclaimed by the authority of the Church's magisterium

Doctrine

Living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the Church.

Oral Tradition

From Hebrew, meaning "VISION" or "revelation"

Prophecy

Name given to the two major parts of the Bible

Testament

The official list of books in the Bible.

Canon

Archangel who announced God's plan for Mary to bear a son.

Gabriel

The visit of the angel to Mary.

Annunciation

Hebrew term meaning "anointed one" in reference to Jesus

Messiah

Belief that Mary, by the grace of God, was preserved immune from original sin.

Immaculate Conception

Belief that Mary was taken up to heaven without suffering a physical death.

Assumption

Mary is called the "New Eve" because

she became the Mother of Jesus willingly

Mary's parents were....

Joachim and Ann

Two original sources of Church teachings are

Bible and Oral Tradition and Holy Spirit

How many books are there in the Old Testament

How many books are there in the New Testament?

Where does the work "Bible" come from?

The Greek word for books

Who does the Magisterium get its authority from?

Jesus Christ

What are the 3 divisions of the Bible?

Old and New Testaments

Who are the 2 authors of the Bible/Scripture?

Holy Spirit & Moses

What 2 criteria are used to determine the canonicity of Scripture?

answer

How many covenants did God make?

FIVE, 5, Five, yes that would be 5!

Free and undeserved gift from god that helps us conform our lives to His will.

Actual Grace

Letters written to the "universal Church" are

Catholic Epistles

Third book of the Bible, word means "Levites"

Leviticus

An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church.

Sacraments

The personal name of the God of Israel.

Yahweh

The first 5 books of the Old Testament...

Pentateuch

Grace that heals our human nature wounded by sin.

Sanctifying Grace

Sin by which the first humans disobeyed God.

Original sin

Literally means "UNVEILING" and used for the book of Revelation.

Apocalypse

The good news of God's mercy and love revealed in the life of Christ

Gospel

What are the 4 types of books in the OLD Testament?

Pentateuch/Law, historical, wisdom, prophets

What new name did God give to Jacob?

Israel

What word refers to the departure of the Hebrew people from Slavery in Egypt

Exodus

Which sacrifices foreshadow Jesus' sacrifice on the cross?

Levitical

What did Matthew and John write about in their gospel?

What they SAW

What did Mark and Luke write about?

They recorded what Mary and the apostles told them

Who wrote a Gospel for Christians of Gentile origin who lived in ROME?

St. Mark

Why was Paul beheaded?

Because he was Roman and a martyr and could not be crucified so they beheaded him.

Who were the Catholic Epistle writers.

St. Peter, St. Paul, James and John

The miracles that MARK wrote about that is not anywhere else is....

Jesus curing a blind man and curing a deaf man

The inheritor and guarantor of our eternal life is...

Church

Who is the chief minister of the sacraments?

Priest or Minister

3 divine calls of the sacraments

call to worship, personal holiness in baptism, correct moral attitude

Catholic Epistles are.... (4)

St. Peter, St. James, St. John, St. Jude