Sacraments
Qurbana
Signs and Symbols
Church History
Bible Trivia
100

These are the sacraments of initiation

Baptism, Eucharist, Comfirmation

100

Three forms of the Qurbana

Raza Qurbana, Solemn Form, Simple Form

100
The three portions of the church

Sanctuary, Questroma, Hykla

100

Authors of the Syro-Malabar (East Syriac) Liturgy

Mar Addai and Mar Mari

100

What are the first five books of the Bible called

Torah (Pentateuch)

200

These are the sacraments of healing

Reconcilation and Anointing of the Sick

200

The hymn where we address God as "Holy, Mighty and Immortal"

Trisagion

200

This is placed in the middle of the Hykla

Bema

200

This event was a public avowal of the St. Thomas Christians not to submit to the Portuguese Jesuit authorities

Koonan Cross Oath

200

Which books are part of the Synoptic Gospels

Matthew, Mark and Luke

300

What are the three roles of a priest

Leader, Teacher and Sanctifier

300

The Innovation of the Holy Spirit takes place during this G'hanta Cycle

Fourth G'hanta Cycle

300

This priestly vestment is symbolic of man renewed in Christ

Kotina

300

This event brought the St. Thomas Christians under Latin-Rite jurisdiction in 1599

Synod of Diamper

300

These books are about the Israelites recapturing Jerusalem and establishing the Second Temple

Maccabees 1 and 2

400

Sin brings these four types of ruin

1) Father-child relationship between God and human is disrupted

2) The relationship between person and person is ruined

3) The bond between person and himself/herself is ruined

4) Bond between person and the world is ruined

400

What are the four subdivisions of each prayer cycle in the Anaphora?

Prayer Request, Private Prayer, G'hanta Prayer and Prayer of Praise
400

This vestment is symbolic of priestly authority

Urara

400

He was the first archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Mar Augustine Kandathil

400

This book is a collection of sorrowful poems about the destruction of Jerusalem

The Book of Lamentations

500

Five Requisites to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation

Examination of Conscience

Contrition

Resolution

Confession

Penance

500

This part of the Qurbana reveals the Eucharist's power of absolve sin, where the celebrant raises the host and divides it

The Rite of Fraction

500

This cloth signifies the burial of Christ

Sosappa

500
This pope established two Apostolic Vicariates for the Syro-Malabar Catholics

Pope Leo XIII

500

This book metaphorically compares the Israelites' abandonment of God with that of an unfaithful wife and her forgiving husband

Book of Hosea

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