Encyclopedia of Catholicism by Frank K. Flinn

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Shannon and Lisa Sowie Cahill, Religion and Artificial Reproduction (New York: Crossroads, 1988); Allan B. Wolter and Thomas A. Shannon, “Reflections on the Moral Status of the Pre-embryo,” Theological Studies (December, 1990) 51: 603–26. accident See SUBSTANCE; TRANSUBSTANTIATION. acts, everyday religious See DEVOTIONS. Adam and Eve The Book of Genesis 2–4 portrays Adam and Eve as the first humans, and thus the parents of all humankind. The name Adam is derived from the Hebrew adamah, red earth, and the name Eve, from hayyah, life.

See also THEOLOGY. Further reading: Selected Writings, ed. Frederick M. Johns (New York: Paulist, 1999); Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, The Way of Salvation and Perfection, ed. Eugene Grimm (St. Louis: Redemptorist Fathers, 1926); Frederick M. Jones, St. : Ligouri, 1998). : altare, “altar” [or altus, “high”]) This Latin term refers to an elevated flat table, generally made of stones, upon which the sacrifice of animals (slaughter) and grains (burning) were made to the gods. Christians use the term to refer to the sacred table upon which is celebrated the sacramental EUCHARIST.

God wills to be loved. ” St. 23–46. He correlates charity with Aristotle’s notion of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics 8. Charity or love is our friendship with God. The Holy Spirit is the motive force of love working in cooperation with human will. We are to love our neighbor because in so doing we love God’s self, who is our greatest good and final end. However, love does not free us from the effects of sin and can even be lost. The early Christian agape, or love feast, symbolized the fellowship of love between God and the community and pointed back to the meals Jesus shared with his disciples, especially the Last Supper (Mark 14).

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