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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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MISSIOLOGY

That branch of theology which studies the principles and practice of the missions. It is the science of evangelization and catechesis in regions and among people where the Church is being established.

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Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time

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Ireland celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of Knock, celebrating the apparition of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, a Lamb and cross on an altar on the wall of the parish church in the village of Knock in County Mayo on August 21, 1879. See

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