6-8 Vocab Review

  The process of being a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and a witness of God’s love to the world.

• Discipleship

• Conversion

• Discernement

• Evangelization

A radical reorientation away from sin, evil, and selfishness and toward God and service to others. This change of heart is a central element of Christ’s preaching, of the Church’s ministry of evangelization, and of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.

• Vocation

• Virtue

• Free Will

• Conversion

   A decision-making process that discovers and honors God’s will in our lives. It is a process that involves reflection, prayer, dialogue, Scripture, and more. (USCCB, Loyola Press)

• Discernment

• Free Will

• Metanoia

• Novena

The proclamation of Christ and the Good News of the Gospel by your words and the way that you live, in fulfillment of Christ’s command. Evangelization involves proclaiming the Gospel in such a way that people’s hearts and lives are changed.

• Evangelization

• Liturgy of the Hours

• Contrition

• Lectio Divina

  A habitual and firm disposition to do the good. (CCC)

• Virtue

• Vocation

• Free will

• Contrition

   A word that means “call.” God calls all persons to be holy and to be disciples of Jesus Christ.

• Vocation

• Conversion

• Discernment

• Evangelization

The capacity to choose among alternatives. Free will is “the power, rooted in reason and will . . . to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility” (CCC, 1731).

• free will

• Jesus Prayer

• litany

• novena

A change of heart from sin to the practice of virtue. Literally, repentance or penance.

• metanoia

• conversion

• discernment

• contemplative prayer

  Wordless prayer wherein a person’s mind and heart rest in God’s goodness and majesty.

• contemplative prayer

• Jesus Prayer

• Liturgy of the Hours

• lectio divina

Heartfelt sorrow and aversion for sins committed along with the intention of sinning no more.

• contrition

• litany

• virtue

• free will