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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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CHILDREN OF GOD

A biblical term for all who believe in Christ and strive to do God's will: "Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God's children; and that is what we are" (I John 3:1).

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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel Excerpt, Luke 18:1-8: Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, "There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just…

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