THL 10 Spring 3&4 Terms

The visible sign of the hidden reality of salvation.

The Annual cycle of religious feasts and seasons that forms the context for the Church’s worship. During this time, we remember and celebrate God the Father’s saving plan as it is revealed through the life of his Son, Jesus Christ.

Another name for the first and most fundamental community of faith: the family.

The name given to priests as a group, especially in a diocese; based on a Greek work which means “elder.”

A call from God to all members of the Church to embrace a life of holiness. Specifically, it refers to a call to live the holy life as an ordained minister, as a vowed religious (sister or brother), in a Christian marriage, or in single life.

From a Latin word meaning “to separate or to distinguish between,” it is the practice of listening for God’s call in our lives and distinguishing between good and bad choices.

That part of the Catholic Church that follows the disciplines and teachings of the Diocese of Rome, especially the liturgical traditions.

The state or condition of those who have chosen or taken vows to remain unmarried in order to devote themselves entirely to the service of the Church and the Kingdom of God.

The vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. They embrace call to go beyond the minimum rules of life required by God (such as the Ten Commandments and the Precepts of the Church) and strive for spiritual perfection.

The virtue by which people are able to successfully and healthfully integrate their sexuality into their total person; recognized as one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Also one of the vows of religious life.

A state of life recognized by the Church in which a person publicly professes vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

A person who lives a solitary life in order to commit himself or herself more fully to prayer and in some cases to be completely free for service to others.

Someone who withdraws from ordinary life, and lives alone or in community, in order to devote oneself to prayer and work in total dedication to God.

A lay man in a religious order who has made permanent vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

A lay woman in a religious order who has made permanent vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.