Saints
This carpenter was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus.
Who is St. Joseph?
Catholics celebrate this many sacraments.
What is seven?
The Catholic Bible has this many books.
What is 73?
This event, when the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles, is often called the birthday of the Church.
What is Pentecost?
These are the names for the two halves of the Mass.
What are the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
This saint translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) and is the patron of Scripture scholars.
Who is St. Jerome?
These two sacraments are called Sacraments of Service (or vocation).
What are Holy Orders and Matrimony?
These first five books of the Bible are called the Pentateuch.
What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
These four marks describe the Church in the Creed.
What are one, holy, catholic, and apostolic?
These three liturgical celebrations make up the Easter Triduum.
What are Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil (Holy Saturday night)?
Before his conversion on the road to Damascus, this Apostle to the Gentiles persecuted Christians under the name Saul.
Who is St. Paul?
These are the three degrees of Holy Orders.
What are bishop, priest, and deacon?
(or episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate)
This Gospel’s infancy story features the Annunciation to Mary, the shepherds, and the Magnificat, and it differs from Matthew’s account of the Magi and the flight into Egypt.
What is the Gospel of Luke?
In A.D. 313 this decree of Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
This is what the Catechism calls the Eucharist with regard to the life of the Church.
("The Eucharist is the ________ and ___________ of the Christian life")
What is the source and summit?
This Marian dogma teaches that Mary was preserved from original sin from the first moment of her conception (and it is not the same as the Angel Gabriel’s visit).
What is the Immaculate Conception?
Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders can be received only once because each leaves this kind of mark/character on the Soul.
What is an indelible seal/character/mark?
The four major divisions of the Old Testament.
What are the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, Wisdom Literature, and the Prophets?
This council in A.D. 325 taught that the Son is truly God, “begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father,” and gave us an early form of the Creed.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
The Gloria is omitted during these seasons.
What is lent and advent?
This dogma teaches that at the end of her earthly life, the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken body and soul into heaven.
What is the Assumption?
This word names the change of the whole substance of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, while the appearances of bread and wine remain.
What is transubstantiation?
Meeting in Acts 15, this council decided that Gentile Christians did not have to keep the whole Mosaic Law, opening the Church’s mission to all nations.
What is the Council of Jerusalem?
Unlike earlier councils that defined doctrine against a heresy, this 20th-century council was called mainly for pastoral renewal and engagement with the modern world.
What is the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)?
This is the moment the priest holds his hands over the bread and wine, calling the Holy Spirit to come down upon them.
What is the Epiclesis?