The celebration of the entire Mass. The term can also refer specifically to the consecrated bread and wine that have become the Body and Blood of Christ

The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. It has been passed on from the time of the Apostles. The Magisterium takes from it all that it teaches as revealed truth.

God’s manifestation of himself in a visible form to enrich human understanding of him. An example is God’s appearance to Moses in the form of a burning bush

A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made

To represent or prefigure a person before his or her life or an event before it occurs

From the Latin redemptio, meaning “a buying back,” referring, in the Old Testament, to Yahweh’s deliverance of Israel and, in the New Testament, to Christ’s deliverance of all Christians from the forces of sin

Teachings recognized as central to Church teaching, defined by the Magisterium and considered definitive and authoritative

Name and describe the three stages of the formation of the Gospels

The Church’s living teaching office, which consists of all bishops, in communion with the Pope, the bishop of Rome

The collection of books of the Bible that the Church recognizes as the inspired Word of God.

The divine assistance the Holy Spirit gave the authors of the books of the Bible so the authors could write in human words the message of salvation God wanted to communicate

A person God chooses to speak his message of salvation, primarily a communicator of a divine message of repentance to the Chosen People, not necessarily a person who predicted the future

Under the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the synthesis in written form of the message of salvation that has been passed down in the oral tradition