religion chapter 2

Eschatological

A term to describe the "last things" (death, judgement, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, the Second Coming of Christ, and the resurrection of the body).

church year

Also known as the liturgical year, it organizes the major events of Jesus' life around the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time 1, Lent, Triduum, Easter, and Ordinary Time 2.

sanctoral cycle

The feasts of saints found throughout the year on the Church's liturgical calendar

Liturgy of the Hours

The public prayer of the Church that makes holy the entire course of the day and night. It is also called the Divine Office.

Easter Triduum

The three-day liturgy that is the Church's most solemn celebration of the Paschal Mystery

humility

The virtue by which Christians acknowledge that God is the author of all that is good.

Neophytes

Those newly received into the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil.

holy day of obligation

one of several special days in the church year when all catholics are obligated to participate in mass

transfiguration

the occasion when jesus revealed his glory before Peter, James and John on a high mountain.

Mystagogia

A Greek term that means "unfolding of the mystery." It is named for the period following the Baptism of adults. During this time, the newly baptized are to open themselves more fully to the graces received in Baptism.

Basilica

A long, narrow church building based on the architecture of public Roman assembly halls. The term is also an honorary one to describe churches that have special importance.

Lectio Divina

Divine reading

sabbath

From the Hebrew word Shabbat, "to cease," the Sabbath is a weekly day of rest and worship in the Jewish faith. Jews observe the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week. Christians have replaced the Sabbath with observance of the Lord's Day on Sunday, the first day of the week and the day Christ rose from the dead.