Catholic Terminology
The part of the church specifically reserved for the choir.
What is a choir loft?
The 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit.
What are, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety & Fear of the Lord?
The Sacraments of Healing.
What are Anointing of the Sick, and Reconciliation?
The Number of commandments.
What is 10?
"In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit"
What is the Sign of the Cross?
A liturgical furnishing used to house the Eucharist outside of Mass. It can be used for the adoration of the faithful and prevents profanation of the Eucharist. It is immovable, made of solid material, and locked.
What is the Tabernacle?
A Sacrament of Initiation that completes Baptismal grace, sealing the baptized with the gift of the Holy Spirit to strengthen them for witnessing to Christ.
What is Confirmation?
The seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church.
What are Baptism, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick?
The number of Apostles.
What is 12?
Worn by Catholic priests as an outward symbol of their vocation.
What is the Roman collar?
The elevated area that the priest or lector stand while the scriptures are read or the homily is given.
What is the Ambo or pulpit?
The type of oil you will be anointed with during your Confirmation.
What is Chrism Oil?
This is erased by the Sacrament of Baptism.
What is Original Sin?
The number of days it rained while Noah was on the ark.
What is 40?
The celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles 9 days after Jesus' Ascension.
What is Pentecost?
The basin or pool used for baptism inside the Church.
What is the baptismal font?
During Confirmation, the Bishop says, "Be sealed with the _________".
What is "the gift of the Holy Spirit"?
The sacrament that can forgive sins committed after baptism.
What is Reconciliation?
The number of sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is 7?
Powerful servants and messengers of God that have no bodies.
What are angels?
A stone slab, consecrated and marked with five crosses symbolizing the five wounds of Christ, typically sealed with relics.
What is the altar?
The number of times can a person receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
What is one?
The sacrament in which a person becomes a priest, deacon or bishop.
What is Holy Orders?
Number of books in the Bible.
What is 73 (46 OT) (27 NT)?
The leaves that the people of Jerusalem laid on the ground for Jesus when he entered town and that we burn every Ash Wednesday
What are Palms?
An ancient, prayerful devotion, before the Real Presence of God found in the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the monstrance.
What is Eucharistic Adoration?
The symbols of Confirmation, three or more.
What are wind, Fire, hands, Dove, oil, a lamp, mitre and staff, 7 and 9 (gifts and fruits of the holy Spirit), and seal?
A symbol used most during Baptism.
What is water?
The number of beatitudes in the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5).
What is 8?
The current earthly leader of the universal Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Pope Leo XIV?
A powerful and simple way to reflect on the final moments of Jesus' life, illustrated around our church on fourteen carvings.
What are the Stations of the Cross?
The Confirmation sponsors role.
What is support and guide the candidate in faith before and after confirmation?
What Catholics believe the bread and wine become.
What is the body and blood of Christ?
The number of Hail Mary prayed in the Rosary.
What is 53 standard 5 decade rosary (each has 10)?
The Saint that our parish is named for.
Who is St. Joseph?
The holy place around the main altar, often slightly elevated, where the consecration takes place during the Mass and in which the real presence of Christ resides (in the tabernacle) at other times.
What is the sanctuary?
The original minister of the sacrament of Confirmation.
Who is the Bishop (Priest can if given permission)?
The founder of the Catholic Church.
Who is Jesus?
How the Bible is divided.
What are the New Testament and Old Testament?
The point of time in Mass when the host becomes the body and the blood of Christ.
What is the Transubstantiation?