CFC [P.341]

Didache: the oldest Christian writing outside the NT. In the catechetical process, didache as “teaching” refers to what follows the first proclaiming of the Gospel, the “kerygma.”

Discernment of spirits: the Holy Spirit’s gift, including prudence and wisdom, enabling one to distinguish authentic divine charisms from natural or evil influences. (Cf. 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Jn 4:1-6.)

Dogma: truths defined by the infallible teaching authority of the Church as revealed by God and thus to be accepted by all the faithful as a matter of faith. (Cf. ND 219, 839-40; LG 25.)

Doxology: giving praise and glory to God, e.g., the “Gloria” and the concluding prayer in the Eucharistic canon. (Cf. Ps 8; 66; 150; Lk 2:14; 1 Pt 4:11; Rv 4:11; 5:12.)

Epiclesis: the calling down of the Holy Spirit to bless and sanctify creation. (Cf. 1 Tim 4:1-5.)  In the Mass it is the invocation to the Spirit to come and change the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, and sanctify the participants.

Ecumenism: the movement to foster through prayer and dialogue the unity willed by Christ for all his disciples. (Cf. Jn 17:21; Eph 4:4-5; UR 1-4; LG 15.)

Eschatology: study of “the last things” (death, judgment, heaven and hell), especially the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Excommunication: the exclusion from celebration or reception of the Sacraments, and from exercising any ecclesiastical office or ministry in the Church. (Cf. CJC 1331.)

Exegesis: bringing out the meaning of the Biblical texts by analysis of its words, grammatical structure, literary form, historical context, etc. (Cf. DV 12, 23; OT 16.)

Faith: the free, reasonable, personal committed total response to God, or the objective revealed truth believed in, through the grace of the Holy Spirit. (Cf. Jn 20:31; Rom 10:9; Heb 11:1; 2 Cor 3:16-18; Acts 16:14; DV 4-5.)

Fruits of the Spirit: effects worked by the Holy Spirit in the believers. They are: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faith, mildness and chastity.” (Cf. Gal 5:22f.)

Fundamentalism: the movement that rejects the Bible’s historical formation, literary forms and study of original meaning, and