What was meant to be Liturgy but turned out not very liturgical
Who is the Immaculate Conception?
Mary as revealed to St Bernadette at Lourdes
The two Gospels that include the Nativity
Matthew and Luke
Mark starts with Jesus's Baptism and John'sstarts with "In the beginning, was the Word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=NABRE
He prophesized when Jesus was brought to the Temple as a baby
Simeon
I will also accept Anna a prophetess who when she saw Jesus "gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of Jerusalem."
Name two Marian feast days during Advent
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec 12), Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Dec 8)
(Also Our Lady of Loretto on Dec 10 and the Chaste Nuptials of Our Lady and St. Joseph on Dec 24.)
What do people in the US leave out Santa?
Cookies and milk.
(People in the UK gives him a mince pie and glass of whiskey.)
Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus meaning....
A. Arrival
B. Coming
C. Adventure
Number of dreams Joseph had
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Three. One to take Mary as his wife, one to leave for Egypt and one to return to Israel
The armies that celebrated a spontaneous Christmas Truce in 1914.
A. French, British and German
B. American and German
C. Persian and Greek
D. Japanese and British
French and British forces with the German forces in Belgium during WWI.
"The truce was reportedly instigated by the Germans, who decorated their trenches with Christmas trees and candles and began singing carols like 'Silent Night.' British troops responded with their own rendition of 'The First Noel.'" The men then ventured into no-mans-land to exchange handshakes, cigarettes, whiskey. Some even started a game of soccer.
https://www.history.com/news/7-historical-events-that-took-place-on-christmas
Saint who created the first nativity scene
A. St. John the Evangelist
B. St. Francis of Assisi
C. St. Francis Xavier
D. St. John the Baptist
St. Francis of Assisi in 1223.
Name five of the reindeer
Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donner and Blitzen
and Rudolph
"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near. (Phil 4: 4-5)"
is the antiphon for this Sunday in Advent.
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
C. The third Sunday, Gaudete Sunday.
The best answer I can find for why rose is joyful is because on the third Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, the pope gave a rose to a citizen.
http://www.pewmissal.com/brand_new/index.php/planning-guide/advent-2/third-sunday-of-advent-year-a/
http://catholichotdish.com/faith-and-reasons/the-story-behind-the-pink-advent-candle/
Who was in power in the region of Judea when Jesus was born? (Choose 2).
A. Caesar Augustus
B. Pontius Pilate
C. Herod
D. Nicodemus
E. Joesph
A. Caesar Augustus (head honcho)
and C. Herod ("king" of Judea)
also Quirinius (governor of Syria)
Matthew 2 and Luke 2
What Bethlehem means in Hebrew
A. House of Meat
B. Birthplace of Beth
C. House of Bread
D. City of David
"House of Bread"
Jesus, the Bread of Life, was born in the House of Bread and then laid in a feeding trough, prefiguring the Eucharist.
(The word that is usually translated "inn" is actually the same word St. Luke used to describe the upper room where Jesus celebrated the first Eucharist.)
Bethlehem, along with Jerusalem, is also called City of David because he was born there, but it is not the translation.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/houses-of-bread
According to pious belief, the final resting spot of the Holy House
A. Nazareth
B. Rome
C. Heaven
D. Loreto
D. Loreto, Italy
"Tradition says that a band of angels scooped up the little house from the Holy Land, and transported it first to Tersato, Dalmatia in 1291, then Recanati, Italy in 1294, and finally to Loreto, Italy where it has been for centuries."
Give an alternative name for Santa Claus
Father Christmas (US/UK/Canada)
Pere Noel (France)
Papa Noel (Mexico and Spain)
Kris Kringle (US/Canada from the German word for Christchild)
Дед Мороз – Ded Moroz (Russia, meaning Grandfather Frost)
Number of generations between Abraham and David, David and the Babylonian exile, and the Babylonian exile and the Messiah according to the Gospel of Matthew.
A. 14
B. 5
C. 7, 14, 7
Explain what two of the three gifts of the Magi symbolize.
Hint: The gifts were Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
Gold: The Kingship of Jesus
Frankincense: Used in temple ceremonies by priests, showing Jesus as the High Priest
Myrrh: commonly used in burials and for embalming, foreshadowing His death
Year on which Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day by Pope Leo III
A. AD 1
B. AD 676
C. AD 1214
D. AD 800
Saint whose feast day is December 26
A. St. Joseph
B. St. Bauxing
C. St. Josaphat
D. St. Stephen
D. St Stephen, the first martyr whose death is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.
Name the TENTH reindeer (Hint: not Rudolph)
Olive, as in Olive the other reindeer who used to laugh and call Rudolph names
Another name for the feast of The Presentation of Jesus and the Purification of Our Lady
A. Candlemas
B. Christmas
C. Epiphany
D. Laetare Sunday
Candlemas. It falls 40 days after Christmas on Feb 2. A lot of Catholics get their candles blessed after this mass. According to my research this is not the "old" end of the Christmas Season though it was the end of the Christmas Cycle during the time period called the Time after Epiphany (which was not Christmas-y but a time for preparation for Lent).
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/christmas-to-candlemas-when-is-real-end-christmas-season/
The Magi most likely practiced this religion
A. Judaism
B. what the Romans practiced
C. Zoroastrianism
D. Mithraism
Zoroastrianism (which "taught the existence of a single, great, all-good god whom they referred to as "the Wise Lord" and whom they believed would vanquish evil in the end. They believed in the renovation of the world, the final judgement and the resurrection of the dead."
Catholic Answers Nov-Dec 2019
First year with a written reference to the birth of Jesus being December 25
A. AD 204
B. Isiah prophesized the day in about 600 BC
C. AD 194
D. AD 354
Around AD 204 by St. Hippolytus of Rome in his Commentary on Daniel.
This refutes the common misbelief that Christmas replaced a pagan holiday that was on Dec 25.
"It precedes by seventy years the time the Emperor Aurelian made Sol Invictus a Roman cult" (what people claim is being replaced) and "it precedes by 150 years the earliest claimed reference to Sol Invictus being celebrated on December 25—that claim being based on the Chronography of A.D. 354."
However, before this, other Church Fathers give different dates for Christ's birth including November 18 (from AD 194), May 20, and April 19 or 20.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/was-jesus-born-december-25th
St. Nicholas is famed for punching this heretic.
A. Arius
B. Gnost
C. Eutyches
D. Macedonius
Arius, who taught that Jesus is created and not co-eternal with the Father (Arianism).
This was at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. Prior to Christianity being legalized, St. Nicholas was also jailed and tortured under the Emperor Diocletian.
In Finland, Santa doesn't ride a sleigh. What animal does he ride on? (four letters)