Feast Days
"And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’" (Matthew 3:13-17)
Epiphany
What is the birthday of the Church?
Pentecost Daily Double
Apostle that died by suicide
Judas Iscariot
: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son".
John - Daily Double
dyeing eggs red to represent the blood of Christ, cracking eggs to symbolize -
opened tomb
What month in the fall does the Church calendar begin?
September
An evening prayer service in the Church is called
Vespers
This son of Zebedee was beheaded
James
"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Matthew 19:26
Paul died in the city of
Rome
Where the Holy Spirit came down lime flames on the Apostles
Pentecost
Constantinople was also called "New _____"
Rome
This Apostle was crucified upside down
Peter
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
John 15:13
The Orthodox Church believes it has maintained the faith "believed everywhere, always, and by all" (St. Vincent of Lerins). This is upheld through apostolic ________—the unbroken chain of bishops and priests.
starts with "s"
succession
Gospels:Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-8, and Luke 9:28-36. Jesus took the Apostles Peter, James, and John with Him up upon a mountain, and while they were on the mountain Jesus was
Transfiguration
Last Byzantine Emperor was Constantine
3rd, 11th or 24th
11th Daily Double
No doubt this Apostle was St stabbed to death with a spear in India.
Thomas
"Fear not, for I am with you."
Isaiah Elijah Noah Moses
Isaiah
Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was the primary capital of the Byzantine Empire from its dedication by Constantine the Great in 330 AD until its fall in 1453. While Constantinople was the imperial center for over 1,000 years, the capital was temporarily moved to _______ between 1204 and 1261 during the Latin Empire occupation.
Athens Nicaea Alexandria
Nicaea
Churches East and West celebrated Easter the same day in 2025. In what year will they do so again?
2028
2025 was the 1,700-year anniversary of this council,
Council of Nicaea
This Apostle was crucified on an X shaped cross in Patras, Greece
Andrew
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."
Acts Philippians Romans
Romans
According to tradition, ______ was the last of the twelve apostles to die. He is believed to be the only apostle who died a natural death (likely around A.D. 95–100 in Ephesus) rather than being martyred, having survived a tradition of persecution
John the Apostle