United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Appendix A. Glossary • 515

bishop ordains a man to be con formed to Jesus Christ by grace, to service and leadership in the Church. A man can be ordained a deacon, priest, or bishop. Through this Sacrament, the mission entrusted by Christ to his Apostles continues to be exercised in the Church. This Sacrament confers a permanent mark or character on the one who receives it. HOLY SPIRIT: The Third Person of the Trinity who builds up, ani mates, and sanctifies the Church and her members. HOPE : The Theological Virtue through which a person both desires and expects the fulfillment of God’s promises of things to come. ICONS: A form of sacred art developed in the Eastern Churches. The artists consider their calling a sacred vocation. Their works have a mystical impact meant to draw the one praying beyond the picture into the realm of the divine. IMAGE OF GOD: God has made us in his image by giving us the capacity for intelligence, love, free dom, and conscience. By Baptism, -I

our bodies are made temples of the Holy Spirit.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: A dogma of the Church that teaches that Mary was conceived without Original Sin due to the anticipated redemptive graces of her Son, Jesus. IMMORTALITY: “The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God—it is not ‘produced’ by the parents—and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death and it will be united with the body at the final Resurrection” (CCC, no. 366). INCARNATION: By the Incarnation, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity assumed our human nature, taking flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary There is one Person in Jesus and that is the divine Person of the Son of God. Jesus has two natures, a human one and a divine one. INDEFECTIBILITY: The Lord Jesus ensures that his Church will remain until the Kingdom is fully achieved. Indefectibility means that the Church does not and can not depart from proclaiming the authentic Gospel without error in spite of the defects of her members.