Sacraments and Church Life
The first Sacrament we receive that makes us members of the Church, forgives our sins, and gives us new life in Christ.
What is Baptism?
The key moral virtues acquired by human effort: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
What are the Cardinal Virtues?
Happiness or fulfillment taught by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, showing us how to be truly happy.
What is the Beatitude?
One of the patriarchs of Israel, known as "our father in faith" because of his great trust in God's promises.
Who is Abraham?
Acts that help meet a person’s physical needs, such as feeding the hungry and clothing the naked.
What are the Corporal Works of Mercy?
A title for the Eucharist, where we are united to Jesus Himself when we receive it.
What is Holy Communion?
The Theological Virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.)
What is Charity?
A sacred permanent bond of family relationship established by God with mankind throughout Salvation History.
What is the Covenant?
The man God called to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt and through whom He gave the Ten Commandments.
Who is Moses?
Acts that help meet a person’s spiritual needs, such as instructing the ignorant and comforting the afflicted.
What are the Spiritual Works of Mercy?
A special prayer in which we reflect on the Joyful, Sorrowful, Luminous, and Glorious Mysteries, using a string of beads.
What is the Rosary?
The gift from God that helps us judge right from wrong.
What is Conscience?
The first sin of Adam and Eve that brought pain, suffering, and death into the world.
What is Original Sin?
The bishop of Rome and successor of St. Peter, who leads and guides the entire Church.
Who is the Pope?
A form of prayer in which we ask for God’s help for others.
What is Intercession?
A brief blessing in which a person marks themselves with a symbolic gesture of the cross while invoking the Trinity.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
Sorrow for our sins, necessary for forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
What is Contrition?
A deliberate offense against God and/or neighbor, including things we say, think, do, or fail to do.
What is Sin?
The state of purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but need to be purified to enter Heaven.
What is Purgatory?
A disordered desire for pleasure or possessions, one of the capital sins.
What is Covetousness?
The change of the bread and wine at Mass into the Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
What is Transubstantiation?
A habit of doing what is good, built through our own efforts and with God’s grace.
What is a Virtue?
Something that attracts or lures a person to sin.
What is Temptation?
The suffering and Death of Jesus on the Cross for our salvation.
What is Jesus' Passion?
Serious sin that breaks our friendship with God and completely rejects His love for us.
What is Mortal Sin?