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Catholic Dictionary

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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CONTINUITY

Applied to the Church's teaching, it is the uninterrupted proclamation of the mysteries of faith from apostolic times to the present. The perdurance of revealed truth, maintained by the Church's teaching authority (magisterium).

Mon30 March
Lent

Monday of Holy Week

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For those following the readings of daily Mass in Lent, the Biblical best has been saved for Holy Week. The book of the prophet Isaiah contains four separate descriptions of a “Suffering Servant”—a shadowy figure called by God to suffer and give his life for the people. Today we read the first description of the…

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