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  • Glossary

    Penance

    Penance encompasses both the interior sorrow for sin and the exterior acts that express it — including the Sacrament of Penance by which sins after Baptism are forgiven.

    Brian Acebo

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    Sacred Tradition

    Sacred Tradition is the living transmission of the Gospel from the Apostles through the Church — which together with Scripture forms the one Deposit of Faith.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    Charity (Love)

    Charity is the theological virtue of love — loving God above all things for his own sake, and neighbor as oneself for love of God — the greatest of all virtues and the form of all the rest.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    The Paschal Mystery

    The Paschal Mystery is Christ's Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension — the central event of human history that accomplished our redemption and is made present in the Church's liturgy.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    Catechesis

    Catechesis is the systematic education of the faithful in the doctrine and life of the Catholic Church — aimed not merely at information but at forming disciples of Jesus Christ.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    Natural Law

    Natural law is the moral order embedded in human nature itself — the universal moral truth accessible to all human beings by reason, independent of divine revelation.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    Moses

    Moses is the liberator of Israel, the mediator of God's covenant at Sinai, and the lawgiver who received the Ten Commandments — a type of Jesus Christ, the new and greater Moses.

    Brian Acebo

  • Glossary

    The Exodus

    The Exodus is God's great liberation of Israel from slavery in Egypt — the defining event of the Old Covenant and a type of the redemption accomplished by Jesus Christ.

    Brian Acebo