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A typical teaching device used by Jesus. It is a vivid picture story drawn from ordinary life that conveys religious truth, usually related to some aspect of God's kingdom. It teases the listener to think and make a choice about accepting the good news of God's reign.
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Parable
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God's love and salvation revealed to us through the life, passion, death, and resurrection and glorification of his Son Jesus Christ. The sacraments, especially the Eucharist, celebrate the Paschal mystery and enable us to live it in our own lives.
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Paschal Mystery
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Sacred leadership; ordained leaders consisting of the pope, bishops, priests, and deacons who govern, teach, and guide the Church in holiness according to Christ's plan.
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Hierarchy
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The mystery from Christs's life in which God's glory shone through and transformed Jesus' physical appearance while he was in the company of the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah. Peter, James, and John witnessed this event.
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Transfiguration
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A small leather capsule which was fastened on the forehead or on the upper left arm so that it hung at the level of the heart. It contained miniature scrolls with four passages from the Jewish Law. Jewish males would wear these all day once they reached the age of adulthood (age 14).
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Phylactery
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A story involving a sustained comparison in which people, things,and events symbolically represent something else.
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Allegory
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The bad example, often by the religious leader, that misleads others into sin.
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Scandal
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The Jewish term for "Hell." Originally, the site of human sacrifice, this Jerusalem valley was cursed by the prophet Jeremiah as a place of death and corruption. In Jesus' day, it was used as a garbage dump.
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Gehenna
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A term having to do with the end time or the "last things" (death, resurrection, judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory, everlasting life, etc.)
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Eschatological
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