Days celebrated
The season that begins the liturgical year. This season is represented by the color violet, or purple, which represents penance and humility.
What is Advent?
The man God called to be his prophet and to whom he revealed his name.
What is Moses?
The first Sacrament of Initiation, which makes us members of the Church, forgives sins, and gives new life in Christ.
What is Baptism?
One of the first four books of the New Testament. They are the heart of the Scriptures and proclaim the Good News.
What is Gospel?
The state of being after death in which "those who die in God's grace and friendship are perfectly purified."
What is Heaven?
The last meal at Passover, Jesus ate with his Apostles on the night before he died, during which he instituted the Eucharist.
What is The Last Supper?
The living authority of the Catholic Church whose task it is to give authentic interpretation of the Word of God found in Scripture and Tradition.
The Sacrament in which we receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.
What is Eucharist?
The written record of God's revelation of Himself contained in the Old and New Testaments. It was composed by human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Word of God.
What is Bible?
The state of being after death in which those who die unrepentant of mortal sin and refuse the love of mercy of God.
What is Hell?
A feast day during which we remember and pray for the holy souls being purified in purgatory.
What is All Soul's Day?
The teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount on the meaning and way to true happiness or fulfilment.
What is Beatitudes?
A theological virtue that is both a gift from God and a human act by which a person comes to know God and Conform their minds, hearts, and wills to Him and the Truth He has revealed.
What is Faith?
The 46 books of the Bible that record the history of salvation from creation through the Old Covenant with Israel in preparation for Christ.
What is Old Testament?
The fact that the Son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our salvation.
What is Incarnation?
The Virgin Mary was preserved from Original Sin so that she could bear the Son of God within her.
What is Immaculate Conception?
Hebrew word meaning "He who strives with God."
What is Israel?
A brief blessing in word and action in which a person marks themselves with a symbolic gesture.
What is The Sign of the Cross?
The full content of divine revelation communicated by Christ, contains in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
What is Deposit of Faith?
Of the same substance. This word is used to describe how God the Father and the Son are both fully God and of the same divine substance.
What is Consubstantial?
The public prayer of the church which sanctifies the whole course of the day and night.
What is Liturgy of the Hours?
The name given to Jesus' explicit teaching about the Eucharist in John 6:22-58.
What is Bread of Life Discourse?
Jesus' teachings that "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind," and "you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
What is Great Commandments?
The mode of transmission of the Word of God.
What is Apostolic Tradition?
The state of human nature deprived of the original holiness and justice Adam and Eve enjoyed before the Fall.
What is Original Sin?