Catholic Word of the Day: PANEGYRIC, 10-02-12

CatholicReference.net ^ | 10-02-12 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

[Salvation]

Featured Term (selected at random):

PANEGYRIC

An elaborate public praise given of some person or event, a formal eulogy. The most famous Christian panegyrics were those of the Fathers of the Church, e.g., St. John Chrysostom preaching on Sts. Lucian and Romanus in A.D. 387. (Etym. Greek pan_gyrikos, for a public festival.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

[Salvation]

New word for me.

[Salvation]

c Word of the Day Ping!

 

Fides Ecclesiastica	Society for the Propagation of the Faith	Anointing
Penitent	Doctrinal Dissent	Destiny
Miriam	Postulation	True Cross
Help of the Sick Scapular	Sarai	Segnatura Apostolica
Capital Punishment	Idol	Propagation of the Faith
Actual Intention	Ten Tribes	Passiontide
God the Holy Spirit	Indwelling	Parochial Mass
Hypostasis	Primogenitus	Abigail
Jacobites	Summum Bonum	Provocation
Secular Institute	Clerical Dress	Compassion
Communion Rail	Premonstratensians	Defamation
Objectivity	Confirmation Character	Sitting
Pater Noster	Litany of the Precious Blood	Holy Oils
Affected Ignorance	Pain of Sense	Panegyric

If you aren’t on this Catholic Word of the Day Ping list and would like to be, please send me a FReepmail.