Glossary

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Terms — G

19 terms

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Gabriel

Gabriel is the Archangel who served as the messenger of God, most notably at the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary.
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Galileo and the Church

The conflict between Galileo and the Church over heliocentrism.
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Gebirah

The title of the Queen Mother in the Kingdom of Judah, serving as a type of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Gebirah

The title of the Queen Mother in the Kingdom of Judah.
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Gehenna

The term used by Jesus to describe the place of eternal punishment (Hell) for those who reject God.
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Gentiles

Gentiles are the people of all nations other than the Jewish people, whom God has called to share in the salvation of Christ.
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Gentiles

Gentiles are all non-Jewish peoples — the nations outside Israel's covenant — whose inclusion in God's saving plan fulfills the promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed through his offspring.
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Genuflection

Genuflection is the act of bending the right knee to the floor as a sign of adoration and reverence.
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Genuflection

Genuflection is the act of bending the right knee before the Blessed Sacrament — a bodily act of worship acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ in the tabernacle, the body's most ancient gesture of homage.
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Gethsemane

The garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Jesus suffered His Agony.
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Glorification

Glorification is the final stage of salvation — the complete transformation of body and soul into the fullness of life with God, begun at the resurrection of the dead and completed in the Beatific Vision.
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Glorification

Glorification is the final stage of salvation in which the bodies of the righteous are raised and transformed to share in Christ's glory.
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Gluttony

Gluttony is a significant concept in Catholic theology or moral teaching.
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God

God is the infinitely perfect and blessed Creator of heaven and earth, who is one in essence and three in Persons.
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God

God is the infinite, eternal being — one in nature, three in Persons — the creator of all things, the source of all truth and love, who invites every human being into a personal relationship.
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Golgotha (Calvary)

The site where Jesus was crucified.
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Good Shepherd

Good Shepherd is a title of Jesus expressing His loving care, guidance, and sacrificial love for His followers.
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Grace

Grace is the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become children of God and partakers of the divine nature.
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Grace

Grace is God's free, undeserved gift of his own divine life — never earned, always given out of love — the foundation of every Christian's relationship with God.