Observance
On Fridays during Lent, Catholics are not supposed to eat the following food item.
What is meat?
Which apostle was the first pope?
Who is Peter?
A major sign in this sacrament is being anointed with chrism oil.
What is Confirmation?
This is the first day of Lent and is marked by fasting and the marking of foreheads with the sign of a cross.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The number of decades in the Holy Rosary.
What is 5?
The 28 day period leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
This saint, whose feast day is celebrated in a popular March holiday, brought Christianity to Ireland.
Who is Saint Patrick?
Sacrament which ends in penance.
What is the Reconciliation?
This day commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus.
What is Good Friday?
How many sacrament are there?
What is 7?
The official term for certain days that Catholics need to attend Mass.
What is "Holy Day of Obligation".
Upon being elected Pope in 2013, Pope Francis became the first pope to be born and raised outside Europe. What continent OR country did the Pope come from?
What is Argentina, South America.
The consecration of man and woman into one.
What is matrimony.
This day of the week was when Jesus had the Last Supper with the disciples.
What is Thursday?
Name the 4 Gospels.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
The term for the ceremonial touching of forehead then chest then both shoulders.
What is the sign of the cross?
Prior to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which allowed for The Mass to be spoken in the local language of the parish, the Mass was spoken by the priests worldwide in this language, which dates back to the Roman Empire.
What is Latin?
The sacrament that marks men as deacon, priest, and/or bishop
What is Holy Orders.
This is the day immediately after Halloween and which commemorates the dead in Heaven and those in the church who led exceptional lives.
What is All Saints Day.
Number of times Peter denied knowing Jesus before the rooster crowed.
What is 3?
The term for the bowing of one knee which Catholics perform prior to entering the pews when they come into the area where the Holy Eucharist is present.
What is genuflecting/genuflection?
This Roman Emperor was the first Emperor to convert to Christianity and who legalized the religion in Rome in 313 AD.
Who is Constantine?
A sacrament of healing that is often (but not always) performed in a hospital.
What is Anointing of the Sick?
Name the day which occurs 40 days after Easter and commemorates Christ going to heaven.
What is Ascension Thursday?
The number apostles of Jesus AND name 5.
What is 12?
Peter, Andrew, James (the Greater), John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James (the Lesser), Jude Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot?