| A | B |
|---|
| The Last Things | judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory |
| virtues | habits of the heart, firm attitudes |
| disciple | someone who learns from and follows Jesus and who accepts a share of his ministry in the world |
| martyr | a witness to the faith; one who dies for the faith |
| martyrology | books of martyrs and saints in general |
| canonization | the process of making a deceased person a saint |
| eschatology | the study of the Last Things |
| prudence | helps us discern the good and to choose the correct means to achieve it |
| justice | helps us render the fairness due each person |
| fortitude | ensures firmness in difficulties and consistency in doing good; spiritual strength |
| temperance | moderates the attraction to pleasure |
| The Little Way | embracing small daily hardships as both a test and a gift from God |
| Francis of Assisi | led a life of poverty; patron of ecology |
| Katharine Drexel | from a wealthy banking family; ministered to Native and African Americans when no one else would |
| John XXIII | called the Bishops to Rome for Vatican Council II |
| Catherine of Siena | 14th century saint who corresponded with popes, prostitures and poor people |
| Mother Teresa | cared for the dying in India |
| Father Damien | cared for lepers in Hawaii |
| novice | a person in the first year of formation for religious life |
| cloistered | living apart from the world in a monastery |
| Edith Stein | born Jewish; philosopher, died at the hands of the Nazis |
| Therese | from Lisieux, France; became a Carmelite nun at an early age; autobiography is Story of a Soul |
