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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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DEO GRATIAS

Thanks to God. One of the responses in the eucharistic liturgy, e.g., at the end of Mass. Also a phrase used in some religious communities to begin or conclude a community exercise, such as reading or speaking at table.

Wed25 March
Lent

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

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Again Lent's austerity is interrupted as we solemnly keep a feast in honor of the Annunciation. The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is a mystery that belongs to the temporal rather than to the sanctoral cycle in the Church's calendar. For the feast commemorates the most sublime moment in the…

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