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10 Cards in this Set
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Coucil
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A formal meeting of Church leaders to deliberate, clarify, study and enact decrees pertaining to the life and belief of the Church.
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Decree on the Laity
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Official pronouncement announcing that all the baptized are called to perfection of life and to evangelize all who they meet.
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Dry Martyr
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A witness to the truth of the faith who suffers social persecution rather than death.
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Grace
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The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to becomre his adopted children.
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Holiness
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An attribute of God describing his complete separation from the sphere of the profane. Individual human beings may be holy dedicating themselves completely to God. Holiness is the perfection of charity.
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Laity
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The faithful who, having been incorporated into Christ through Baptism, are made part of the people of God, the Church. They are not in Holy Orders or the consecrated life.
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Martyr
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A witness to the truth of the faith, in which he or she endures even death to be faithful to Christ.
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Saint
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A person on earth, in purgatory, or in heaven notable for holiness and heroic virtue.
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Sanctification
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Process of being made holy. This begins with Baptism, continues throughout the life of the Christian, and is completed when a person enters heaven.
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Spiritual Reading
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All reading that leads us to prayer and closer union with God.
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