Vocabulary for Lesson 27

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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.)

Maundy Thursday: The day in Holy Week in which Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples, instituted the Lord's Supper, washed His disciples' feet, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, was betrayed by Judas, and was arrested by the Jews.
The Passover: The feast that celebrates God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt, when the blood of the lamb was smeared upon the doorposts of their homes, so that the Angel of Death "passed over." This Old Testament feast corresponds to and is fulfilled in the Gospel Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. This Old Testament deliverance included both the action of God to save His people and the meal He provided them to receive that deliverance. The blood of the lamb was shed and smeared on the lintels and doorposts of their homes so that the Angel of Death would "pass over," and the roasted lamb was eaten with unleavened bread by all the faithful who believed in the Lord's deliverance; thus it pointed forward to and was fulfilled in the death of Christ and the Lord's Supper.
New Testament (or New Covenant): The promise of the Lord's Supper that the blood of Christ was shed in our place (vicarious atonement) for the forgiveness of sins, in order to satisfy God's just demand for the death of sinners. This word of promise guarantees that all the benefits of Christ's death for our sins are distributed in His body and blood in the Sacrament of the Altar. [188]
the Lord's Supper: The term for the Sacrament of the Altar which speaks of it as the food which Christ gives to the Christian to strengthen and preserve him in Christ and the true faith to life everlasting. [191]
the High Priestly Prayer: The prayer that Jess prayed to His Father on behalf of His disciples in the upper room on Maundy Thursday.