English words from Ecclesiastical Latin
- archconfraternityA religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.
- Beloved DiscipleA figure in the Gospel of John whose identity is left implicit within the text; traditionally, John the Evangelist himself.
- dry massThe mass of a rocket including its contents but without propellant.
- ecumenical councilA church council to which bishops from the entire world are invited, held by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians to be infallible in its decisions on faith and morals when certain conditions are met.
- extraordinary formThe Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
- formal heresyThe teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.
- hypostatic unionIn Chalcedonian Christianity, the unity of the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human, in a single individual person or hypostasis.
- Lord's DaySunday, the first day of the week, particularly as the Christian Sabbath.
- material heresyAn opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of it being so.
- offensive to pious earsDescribing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.
- partial indulgenceAn indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.
- plenary indulgenceAn indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.
- Precious BloodThe blood of Jesus Christ, especially in the form it is believed to take in the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.
- Vicar of ChristThe Pope.
- White SundaySynonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
- words of institutionThe pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrants at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.