Vocabulary for Lesson 26

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Learning is work. There are multiple ways to study. Different study strategies will work differently for each student. Serious students should try all of them several (6-7) times to see how they work when done well. For the best learning, every student will likely need to use more than one strategy and switch between them. Here are some tips relating to studying vocabulary. You can adapt them for memorizing texts.

Use multiple senses: read, speak, and hear the material aloud. Then, write your version with a pencil into your notebook and notice how that feels. Then, read your own definition aloud as you study. (combine with the next two strategies)
Use your brain: condense the definitions into a form that makes sense to you. Identify key words for every definition. Think of synonyms that you would use. (combine with the other strategies)
Use your body: say your definition and act it out with an expressiveness that fits the meaning.
Use your friends and family: Ask someone to quiz you using spaced repetition for a set amount of time, from your notes. (Example: for 10 minutes, all questions get repeated, but the quicker and more accurate your answer, the longer the interval until that question comes back. Questions you get wrong are repeated sooner.)
Use basic technology: Show all definitions and hide all the terms on this page. Try to remember each term before you show it (by clicking the definition) to check your answer. Then, show all terms and hide the definitions on the page. Only show a definition (by clicking the term) after you have made your best effort to remember your own version of it.
Use tools: Make a stack of index cards with terms on one side and your definitions on the other. When reviewing, don't check the opposite side until you've made your best effort to remember. Sort them into three stacks: Easy, Hard, and Failed. Then re-sort the Failed cards and work through the Hard cards until they are all Easy.
Use advanced technology: On the web (Example: SuperNotes with free signup or with subscription.) or on an app (Example: Anki), create a stack of virtual cards and let the software quiz you. It will use spaced repetition automatically.
Use brute force memorization: Copy a term and definition from this page. Then navigate to Catechesis Contents > Memorization Tool and paste it into the box, then follow the instructions on that page. (Caution: this works quickly for memorizing texts, but must be repeated a few times after a break for long-term recall. It is less effective than the other strategies for understanding what you memorize.)

Holy Week: The most important week in the ministry of our Lord, beginning with Palm Sunday, followed by Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ending with Easter Sunday. This is the week of our salvation in Jesus' institution of the Lord's Supper, suffering, death, and resurrection.
Palm Sunday: The day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey while the multitude laid their garments and palm branches on the road, and the multitudes cried out to Him in fulfillment of the Scriptures, "Hosanna to the Son of David! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!' Hosanna in the highest!" (Matthew 21:9).
hosanna: The word which means "save [us] now!" which was chanted from the psalms (Psalm 118:25) by the people on Palm Sunday.
The Sanctus: The ancient hymn of heaven and earth that is sung in the Divine Service at the consecration of the bread and wine. This hymn combines the song of the angels at the commissioning of Isaiah, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth," with the song sung by the people at the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, "Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" (Lutheran Worship, p. 148). It is the fourth of the five great songs of the Divine Service. Its Latin title comes from the first word of the hymn and means "holy." [196]
Bethany: The village on the Mount of Olives about two miles from Jerusalem that was the home of Lazarus and his sisters Mary and Martha.
Mary and Martha: The two sisters of Lazarus from Bethany who received Jesus into their home; the one sat at His feet and faithfully listened to His Word, while the other was busy worrying about all the preparations. (The sister who sat at Jesus' feet is also the one who anointed His feet with oil at the beginning of Holy Week.) They witnessed the raising of their brother Lazarus from the dead.
Lazarus: The brother of Mary and Martha from the village of Bethany who often received Jesus into his home, and who was raised by Jesus from the dead after he had been in the grave for four days.