Category 1
The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the Mother of God.
What is the Annunciation?
Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist.
What is the Visitation?
The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
What is the Nativity?
Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus in the Temple in accordance with Jewish law.
What is the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple?
Jesus, at age twelve, is found in the Temple listening to and asking questions of the teachers.
What is the Finding of Jesus in the Temple?
The section of the Bible focusing on the life, teachings, and followers of Jesus.
What is the New Testament?
The section of the Bible written before Jesus, covering creation and the history of the Israelites.
What is the Old Testament?
The total number of books in the New Testament.
What is 27?
The total number of books in the Old Testament.
What is 46?
The total number of Books in the Bible.
What is 73?
The mystery of God becoming man in the person of Jesus Christ.
What is the Incarnation?
He leaps for joy in Elizabeth's womb upon hearing Mary's greeting.
Who is John the Baptist?
The town where Jesus was born.
What is Bethlehem?
The two elderly, devout people who spent their lives waiting in prayer to see the Messiah.
Who are Simeon and Anna?
A free gift from God that gives us His divine life and love in our souls.
What is grace?
Mary’s "yes" to God at the Annunciation ("Let it be done to me according to your word").
What is "Fiat"?
Mary’s prayer and song of praise during the Visitation (Luke 1:46–55).
What is the Magnificat?
Old Testament law from Leviticus.
What is the Purification Law?
Jesus' earthly father.
Old Testament law from Exodus.
What is the Firstborn Law?
Mary's initial reaction to the Angel Gabriel when he visited her.
What is troubled/ confused "How can this be?"
Name one reason God became man.
ANSWERS WILL VARY: What is to save us by reconciling us with God, so that we might know God's love, to be our model of holiness, to make us partakers of the divine nature?
The two Books of the Bible which have accounts of the birth of Jesus.
What is Matthew and Luke?
Simeon's prophecy to Mary at the Presentation in the Temple.
What is "a sword will pierce your heart"?
Name the four steps for finding a verse in the Bible.
What is find the Book in the Table of Contents, flip to that page, find the chapter (bold), then find the verse (superscript)?