Tagalog Religion Words

Catholic

God

mass (religious service)

to permit

to perform a wedding

word (of God)

cross

novena

remains of the dead; excess

mass; religious service; to go to church

the young Jesus

prayer

female saint

male saint

heaven; sky

communion

holy

hell

God-fearing

savior

wonder, miracle

prayer

to attend mass

temple

soul

nun

to perform a miracle

miraculous

act of worship

worship; adoration

to worship

to worship

holiness

Catholicism

Christianity

Christian

virgin

devil

blessing

rosary

prayer

to attend mass together

resurrection

to sin

blessing; grace

to bless

candle

to bestow grace

altar

to redeem [it]

minister

to go to heaven

savior

tradition of chanting the passion of Christ

Calvary

angel

Christ

supreme deity of the Tagalogs

Satan; Lucifer

sect

to offer a prayer for

to pray

devout; religious

bishop; high-ranking Christian clergy

angelus; incantation; prayer

religion

sacred; holy

spiritual

image

priest

testament

altar boy

faith

to exercise faith / to believe

faith

to believe / have faith

offering

mortal

to bestow

disciple, apostle

goddess

doctrine

grace

cardinal (official)

crucifix

confession

confess

to confess

devoutly religious woman

devoutly religious man

retire; retreat

alms

prayerful

to lay to rest

altar

sponsors

to preach

spirituality

glory

Muslim religious leader

catechism

congregation

cult

act of saving

psalm

seminarian

fellow believer

litany

glory

female missionary

male missionary

host (white wafer used in Eucharist)

for church use

purgatory

amen; so be it

fast

spiritualist; medium

sister; religious person

indulgence

to confess [it]

catechist

crucifixion

parish priest

matrimony

act of sinning

to bow; to bow the head in respect

to sanctify

blessing

to act as a godparent

oblation; offering or sacrifice

chapel; prayer room

hosanna; exclamation of praise

Jesuit

incarnation

invocation

immortality

conception

a believer

worship service

for spiritual use

religious; for religion

savior; redeemer

believer

a tabernacle

evangelism

exorcism

to pray for something

to sprinkle [it]; to spray [it]

to create

creator

miraculous (female)

miraculous (male)

mystic

cloistered nun

monk

church practice

religious community leader

to attend mass

to treat as a god

ancestral spirit

false god

canonize

canonized

canonization

confessor

pro-religion

worshipper

occultism

spiritual state

reincarnation

most holy woman; the Most Holy (female title)

most holy man; the Most Holy (male title)

secular; non-ordered priest

creator

whispered repeated prayer or saying

to bow head in respect

to send to hell

female novice of a religious congregation

male novice of a religious congregation

diocese; bishop's jurisdiction

omnipotence

omnipotent

offertory; part of a religious mass

oracle; medium for consultation

to ordain; invest as a priest

ordained

ordination

irreverent

indigenous priest/priestess

to ordain

person who prays for others professionally

to ordain [someone]

act of bestowing blessings

divinity

religiosity; religiousness

for prayer

sectarian

follower or worshipper

excommunication

idolatry

mysticism

to worship

to whisper a prayer

venerable

to strive to be holy

state of being blessed

to canonize [him/her]

superstitious or spirit-fearing

to clasp hands

ritual of spirit worship

pursuit of sanctity

highest; head of a religious cult

to whisper [a prayer]

inquisition

novitiate period

omnipresence

omnipresent

orthodoxy; established beliefs

indigenous spirit-based religion

body hanging on a cross

deaconess

to clasp [them] together

to canonize

folk healer; spiritual leader

universalism

convent

clasped hands; meeting

to wear to church

miter (bishop's hat)