Doctrinal Definitions
- The Trinity
- God is one being, but with three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
- Grace
- God gives us free and undeserved help that allows us to participate in the divine
life.
- Transubstantiation
- The real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine begins at the moment of
consecration and endures as long as the Eucharist species subsist.
- Hypostatic Union
- Jesus Christ was both true God and true man, not one or the other or a partial mixture
of the two. He had two wills: one human and one divine.
- Immaculate Conception
- Mary, the Mother of God, was, from the moment of her conception, filled with grace and
preserved immune from all stain of original sin.
- Incarnation
- The Son of God assumed a human nature to accomplish our salvation.
- Assumption
- Mary was taken up, body and soul, into heavenly glory after her earthly life was
over.