Saints
This “Little Flower” is known for her “Little Way” of spiritual childhood.
Who is St. Thérèse of Lisieux?
This sacrament uses water and is the gateway to the other sacraments.
What is Baptism?
This is the first book of the Bible.
What is Genesis?
This city is the seat of the Pope and the center of the Catholic Church.
What is Rome (or Vatican City)?
This is the central action of the Mass in which the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is the Consecration (or Eucharistic Prayer)?
This Italian saint received the stigmata and founded the Order of Friars Minor.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
In this sacrament of healing, sins are confessed to a priest.
What is Reconciliation (or Confession / Penance)?
Jesus was born in this town of David.
What is Bethlehem?
This 16th-century council responded to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
Catholics traditionally pray this set of prayers using beads while meditating on the mysteries of Christ’s life.
What is the Rosary?
This Apostle is called the “Rock” on which Christ built His Church.
Who is St. Peter?
This sacrament confers a permanent spiritual mark and strengthens the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
What is Confirmation?
This Gospel is the only one that contains the story of the Magi.
What is the Gospel of Matthew?
This title is given to the Bishop of Rome as successor of St. Peter.
What is the Pope (or Supreme Pontiff)?
This season of preparation for Christmas begins four Sundays before December 25.
What is Advent?
This Spanish mystic and Doctor of the Church reformed the Carmelite order and wrote The Interior Castle.
Who is St. Teresa of Ávila?
This sacrament is the source and summit of the Christian life and involves the Real Presence of Christ.
What is the Eucharist (or Holy Communion)?
This New Testament letter is often called the “Gospel according to Paul.”
What is the Letter to the Romans?
This 1960s council called for aggiornamento (“updating”) of the Church.
What is the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)?
This prayer, also known as the “Our Father,” was taught by Jesus Himself.
What is the Lord’s Prayer?
This Polish pope was canonized in 2014 and is remembered for his role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
Who is St. John Paul II?
These two sacraments are ordered to the salvation of others and are known as the sacraments of service (or vocation).
What are Holy Orders and Matrimony?
These are the four marks of the Church found in the Nicene Creed (rooted in Scripture and Tradition).
What are one, holy, catholic, and apostolic?
Defined in 1870 at the First Vatican Council, this dogma states that the Pope is preserved from error when teaching ex cathedra on faith or morals.
What is papal infallibility?
These are the three theological virtues infused at Baptism.
What are faith, hope, and charity (love)?