OT Bible
This king asked God for wisdom instead of riches or long life.
Who is Solomon?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cups.
What is Brazil?
The word “Qurbana” comes from a Syriac word meaning this.
What is “offering” or “sacrifice”?
Paul encourages believers to “put on the whole armor of God” in this letter.
What is Ephesians?
This mendicant order, founded by Saint Francis of Assisi, emphasizes poverty, simplicity, and care for creation.
What is the Franciscan Order?
This judge made a vow that resulted in the sacrifice of his only daughter.
Who is Jephthah?
This animal can hold grudges and will remember if you’re mean to it.
What is an elephant?
The Qurbana is divided into two main parts: the Liturgy of the Word and this
What is the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
This letter encourages believers that “faith without works is dead.”
What is James?
This council, held in 325 AD, addressed the Arian heresy and affirmed that Christ is “of the same substance” as the Father.
What is the First Council of Nicaea?
This is the name of the second census of Israel recorded in the wilderness.
What is the Book of Numbers?
This is the only organ that can regenerate itself.
What is the liver?
This Syriac term refers to the altar used during the Qurbana.
What is Madbaha?
This island is where John received the visions recorded in Revelation.
What is Patmos?
This event in 1054 officially split the Catholic Church from the Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is the Great Schism?
This book contains the line “There is nothing new under the sun.”
What is Ecclesiastes?
This spice is the most expensive in the world by weight
What is saffron?
This Syriac term refers specifically to the Eucharistic prayer portion of the Qurbana.
What is Anaphora?
This early Christian missionary journeyed with Barnabas and later with Silas, spreading the gospel to Asia Minor and Greece.
Who is Paul?
He is the first non-Italian pope in over 400 years, elected in 1978.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
This prophet married a woman named Gomer as a symbol of Israel’s unfaithfulness.
Hosea
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
The opening and closing of the sanctuary veil during Qurbana symbolizes this biblical event or reality.
What is the revelation and mystery of heaven (or the veil of the Temple being opened)?
In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, the rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus to warn his brothers, but Abraham responds with this principle.
What is “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead”?
This saint, known as the “Angelic Doctor” or “Angelic Saint,” and is a patron of students and scholars.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?