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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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EFFICIENT CAUSE

An agent in the production of any effect. It is that which, by its activity or exercise of power, produces existence or change in another.

See Also: FINAL CAUSE, See Also: FIRST CAUSE, See Also: FORMAL CAUSE, See Also: FREE CAUSE, See Also: MATERIAL CAUSE, See Also: MORAL CAUSE, See Also: NECESSARY CAUSE, See Also: SECONDARY CAUSE, See Also: CAUSE
Thu8 January
Christmas

Thursday after Epiphany

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We continue celebrating the Christmas season, focusing on the Epiphany. The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Laurence Justinian (1381-1455), who was one of the great Italian Saints of the 15th century. A great religious as well as a great bishop, he maintained his austerity as…

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