Bible
The two major parts of the Christian Bible
What are the Old Testament/Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament?
The manual for personal and communal worship in the Episcopal Church
What is the Book of Common Prayer (BCP)?
The set of promises we make at Baptism and reaffirm at Confirmation.
What is the Baptismal Covenant?
The members of the Trinity
Who are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (OR: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer)?
This lawyer, social justice advocate and priest celebrated their first Eucharist at COTC.
Who is Pauli Murray?
Three different genres of literature found in the Bible
What are law, poetry, prophecy, history, fiction, letters?
The particular collection of words and actions that make up our worship-- it means "the work of the people"
What is liturgy?
This entity consecrates the bread and wine during the Eucharist.
What is the entire congregation?
These are the two main creeds we use in worship.
What are the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed?
The four orders of ministry
Who are laypeople, deacons, priests, and bishops?
These three Gospels are a lot alike.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke (the Synoptic Gospels)?
The two major parts of a Eucharistic worship service
What are the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Table?
Jesus himself instituted these two main Sacraments.
What are Baptism and Eucharist?
The doctrine that God took on flesh to be close to us.
What is the Incarnation?
A grouping of Episcopal congregations governed by a Bishop
What is a Diocese?
This person traveled around the Mediterranean starting new church communities, and then exchanged letters with them.
Who is the Apostle Paul?
The liturgies in the BCP that use older, more traditional and formal language
What is Rite I?
The formal definition of "Sacrament," according to the BCP.
What is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace?
We believe that Jesus was both fully _____ and fully _____.
What are human and divine?
In 1974, the Philadelphia Eleven overcame this major barrier to full inclusion in the Church.
What is the Ordination of women?
A genre of Biblical literature that claims to reveal information that is hidden or secret.
What is an apocalypse?
The four things Jesus did at the Last Supper, which are also the four things we do at the Eucharist.
What are take, bless, break, and give?
The seven Sacraments of the Episcopal Church.
What are Baptism, Eucharist, Marriage, Confirmation, Ordination, Reconciliation of a Penitent, Anointing of the Sick?
The creeds use this word to describe the one, universal Church.
What is Catholic?
All the churches that descended from the Church of England, held together under the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
What is the Anglican Communion?