| A | B |
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| An Aramaic/Hebrew word used by Jesus to address God. It is an affectionate and intimate term for father like our “daddy” or “dad” | Abba |
| An explanation of why we believe a certain way | Apology |
| After the resurrection, the event in which Jesus passed totally into the presence of his father. | Ascension |
| The gathering of baptized persons who profess faith in the risen Jesus and his message and who, through the power of the Holy Spirit, strive to live that message in their daily lives. | Church |
| One who follows. Any follower of Jesus’ teaching. | Disciple |
| The Study of Church and what it means to be Church | Ecclesiology |
| The study of the end of times including the second coming, final judgment, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. | Eschatology |
| Coming from the Greek word for Gospel or good news, it is the writer of a Gospel | Evangelist |
| The official Church teaching that God took on human nature in Jesus. | Incarnation |
| Jesus’ description of the rule or reign of God over the hearts of the people. The kingdom is an ideal future but also a present reality that is communal in nature and implies a new relationship between God and people and among people themselves. It therefore connotes the development of a new social order based on unconditional love. | Kingdom of God |
| What Matthew calls the Kingdom of God | Kingdom of Heaven |
| A title commonly used in the OT as a substitute for God’s name. Jews believe that calling God by name was sacrilegious, because doing so implied that people had control over God. | Lord |
| The sharing of carefully selected and highly polished recollections primarily by word of mouth. The early Christians’ oral recollections of Jesus became the basis for the Gospels | Oral Tradition |
| Coming from the Greek meaning, “The second coming of Christ” | Parousia |
| Paschal Lambs | In Jewish history, the lambs sacrificed in the Temple during the feast of Passover, as part of the ritual of a special meal recalling the one eaten by Moses and the Israelites before the Exodus. The word Paschal is derived from the Hebrew word meaning to “pass over.” Jesus is often referred to as the new paschal lamb because of his sacrificial death on the cross. |
| Paschal Mystery | The whole series of events by which Jesus saved humanity – from his giving Eucharist at the Last Supper through his death and resurrection to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Paschal Mystery is the Christian belief that ultimately God brings life and goodness out of suffering and death |
| Passion | The arrest, trial, and Crucifixion of Jesus, recorded in all four Gospels in a detailed and generally consistent way. |
| Pentecost | From the Greek meaning fiftieth reflecting on the fifty days after leaving Egypt the Israelite people received the law on Mt. Sinai. For Christians, it is the event in which the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the disciples, transforming them into courageous witnesses to the risen Jesus |
| Resurrection | The event in which Jesus was raised from the dead by God |
| Salvation | God’s work that frees humanity from the evils of sin. Salvation is a gift from God and not something achievable by human effort. |
| Trinity | The Christian doctrine that three divine persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, exist in the one God. |
