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CRL Vocabulary

Across
A hermit. One who separates himself from the world in order to give himself more completely to prayer and penance.
"gifts of grace"
A popular term for religious women, whether cloistered nuns or members of congregations under simple vows.
Redemptive work of Christ, especially the events of the Last Supper and the Passion, reaching their climax on Easter Sunday.
A free, deliberate promise made to God to do something that is good and that is more pleasing to God than its omission would be. The one vowing must realize that a special sin is committed by violating the promise.
A monastic superior.
A life consecrated by profession of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience.
stresses prayer and self-denial as a means of growing in the knowledge and love of God
religious women under solemn vows living a cloistered, contemplative life in a monastery.
Associations of the faithful established by religious orders.
A covered walk enclosing a quadrangle around which monasteries are built. Also an enclosure for religious retirement.
A title of respect variously used in ecclesiastical documents and Catholic Church practice.
The group of psalms, hymns, prayers, biblical and spiritual readings formulated by the Church for chant or recitation at stated times every day.
Down
quality that is difficult to change and that disposes a person either well or badly, either in oneself or in relations with others.
The work of an apostle, not only of the first followers of Christ but of all the faithful who carry on the original mission entrusted by the Savior to the twelve.
Canonically erected and independent monastery with a required minimum of religious.
A society of consecrated life, whether clerical or lay, whose members profess the evangelical counsels in the world. Their purpose is to enable the members to attain Christian perfection and to exercise a full apostolate.
Superior of a monastery of monks having a settled location.
One of the five canonical hours of the Divine Office, so called because traditionally they are to be sung or recited at certain hours in the day.
concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
The way of life, characterized by asceticism and self-denial, followed by religious who live more or less secluded from the world, according to a fixed rule and under vows, in order to praise God through contemplation and apostolic charity.
The building or buildings in which a community of religious women live; also a monastic community in its corporate capacity.
a fixed or stable manner of life that people of the same sex live in common, and in which they observe the evangelical counsels by means of the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
men living a community life in a monastery, under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to a specific rule
Good actions that are not prescribed by any law. They are morally better than the corresponding precepts, as fasting is higher than temperance
The place where religious dwell in seclusion.
A principle or regular mode of action, prescribed by one in authority, for the well-being of those who are members of a society.