Holy Days of Obligation
This holy day of obligation is celebrated on January 1st.
What is the Solemnity of Mary, Holy Mother of God?
This term refers to the mystery that we worship one God in 3 persons.
What is the Trinity?
This saint referred to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved."
Who is Saint John?
This solemnity is considered the birthday of the Church.
What is Pentecost?
This belief alleges that the Bible – as interpreted by the individual believer – is the only source of religious authority.
What is sola scriptura?
This holy day of obligation is a celebration of the Church Triumphant and follows directly after All Hallows' Eve (Halloween).
What is All Saint's Day?
In contrast to mortal sins, these sins are considered less grave.
What are venial sins?
This saint stripped naked in a square in front of his father to display his dedication to poverty in service to God.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This was a series of wars first launched in 1095 to retake the Holy Land from Muslim conquerors.
What are the Crusades?
What is Nestorianism?
This Marian holiday falls on August 15th.
What is the Feast of the Assumption?
This term refers to how the bread and wine at Mass become the real body and blood of Christ.
What is transubstantiation?
Though widely considered to be the patron saint of traveling, there is little evidence that this person ever existed.
Who is St. Christopher?
This movement was instigated in 1517 by Martin Luther in response to real and perceived abuses and corruption within the Catholic Church, including the sale of indulgences.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The belief that God is one person who has revealed himself in three forms or modes in contrast to the Trinitarian doctrine where God is one being eternally existing in three persons.
What is modalism?
This feast falls forty days after Easter but in the US the obligation is commuted to following Sunday.
What is the Feast of the Ascension?
This two word phrase refers to the reality that Jesus is both fully human and divine.
What is the hypostatic union?
This saint is famous for writing the Summa Theologica and is a doctor of the church known as "The Angelic Doctor."
Who is St. Thomas Aquinias?
This phrase refers to the territories owned and ruled by the Pope in Italy until they were taken from him by Italian nationalists in 1870. (Hint: it is not Vatican City.)
What are the Papal States?
This heresy professes that Jesus was not fully divine.
What is Arianism?
This holy day occurs on March 19th. Although not celebrated in the US, this solemnity serves as Father's Day in Spain and Italy.
What is the Feast of Saint Joseph?
This term refers to Mary being preserved from original sin.
What is the Immaculate Conception?
This irascible and grumpy saint is known for translating the Bible into Latin, also known as the Latin Vulgate Bible.
Who is St. Jerome?
This phrase refers to the time between 1309 and 1376 when the pope was pressured to reside in France by the French monarchy and factionalism in Rome.
What is the Avignon Papacy?
The belief that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human.
What is Monophysitism?