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anamnesis: active remembering
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candidate: person who was already baptized
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catechumen: a person who has never received baptism
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chrism: holy oil
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concupiscence: inclination to sin
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covenant: a binding agreement between 2 people that involves giving part of one's self to the other
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Eligibility for godparent or sponsor: practicing Catholic, 16, received the Sacraments of Initiation
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epiclesis: means to make; we call DOWN the Holy Spirit to transform earthly things
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Eucharist: the source and summit of the Christian life...with which all other sacraments and Church mysteries are bound up and toward which all are oriented
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Eucharist: the source and summit of the Christian life
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Eucharistic Intercommunion: not allowed because they don't recognize the Pope
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ex opere operato: a sacrament happens by the Holy Spirit, NOT the priest, makes it so
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exorcism: freed from the effects of sin and from the influence of the devil
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Frequency of Annointing of Sick: Whenever a person is seriously ill or is in need of healing
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grace: the active living presence of the Holy Spirit in us
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Incarnation: to become flesh
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lex operandi, lex credenti: what we pray is what we believe & what we believe is what we pray
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magisterium: teaching body of authority of the Catholic Church
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mortal sin: grave, serious sin
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mystagogia: fifty day period which lasts from Easter Sunday until Pentecost Sunday - neophytes grow in the faith
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objective: there are absolutes about what is right or wrong
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original sin: human nature is weakened in its powers; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the domination of death; and inclined to sin
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original sin: state(condition) of human brokenness into which humans are born inclination to sin
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passover: frees the chosen people from slavery of sin and saves them by the blood of the Lamb
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RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation if Adults
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Rule for reception of communion: "Easter duty" ; no mortal sin; Mass on Sunday and Holy Days; fast 1 hour
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sacrament: efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.
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sacramental seal: Holy Spirit marks us with the seal of the Lord; an indelible spiritual mark
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sanctifying grace: special kind of grace that saves us from the control of original sin and over comes concupiscence
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subjective: s
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synaxis: "together at the center"; another name for Eucharist
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synoptic: "to see the same as" 3 Evangelists; synoptic gospels
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transubstantiation: bread and wine really becomes the body and blood of Jesus; to move across substances
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venial sin: lesser sin
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viaticum: Eucharist given at the time of Annointing of the Sick