RS: Living the Christian life (Key words)

• Prayer 


  communication with God, usally through spoken words
• Supplication


  a prayer asking God for help
• Adoration


  praising or adoring God
• Confession 


  confessing sins and asking fro frogiveness
• Thanksgiving


  thanking God for his goodness
• Denomination


  name given to the different branches of Christianity
• Sacrament 


  an outward ceremony through which Gods grace is given
• Baptism


  a ceremony where someone is initiated into the Christian faith
• Eucharist


  Christian service commemorating the last supper in which bread and wine were consumed in memory of Jesus body and blood
• pilgrimage


  A religious journey to a place that is thought to be holy or sacred
• parable


  A story told to illustrate a religious or moral issue
• worship


  Acts of religious praise
• private worship


  When a believer praises all on his God on his or her own
• liturgical worship


  A church service that follows a set of structure a ritual with sacraments at its centre
• non-liturgical worship


  The church service that does not follow a set text or ritual with emphasis on the Bible
• informal worship


  A type of non-liturgical worship sometimes spontaneous or charismatic in nature
• Christmas


  The Christian celebration honouring the birth of Jesus Christ
• Easter


  Time of year which remembers the last days of Jesus's life
• Advent


  The four weeks before Christmas - a time of preparation
• Lent


  The 40 day period leading up to Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday
• parish


  An area having its own church in clergy (parish priest)
• evangelism


  The spreading of Christian teachings by public speaking
• proselytise 


  To attempt to convert someone to a religion
• convert


  To change one's religion and faith
• missionary


  A religious person set out to convert people to Christianity
• Ecumenism


  Movement working for cooperation between Christian denominations which will lead to unity
• recollection


  Bringing people together – a chance for forgivenes
• persecution


  Hospitality and it treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs; oppression