The Catholic Church
This is the language the Mass was prayed in for centuries before being translated into local languages.
What is Latin?
This is the community the Nicene Creed describes as “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.
What is the Catholic Church?
Before preaching, healing, or calling disciples, Jesus stepped into public view during a moment when He was revealed, affirmed, and anointed through the power of the Holy Spirit at the Jordan River.
What is the Baptism of the Lord?
The part of the Mass where Scripture is proclaimed and God speaks to His people through the readings and the Gospel.
What is the Liturgy of the Word?
This first book of the Bible begins with the story of creation and introduces the foundations of God’s relationship with humanity.
What is Genesis?
This member of the clergy can preach, baptize, witness marriages, and serve the poor, but cannot consecrate the Eucharist or hear confessions.
What is a deacon?
This statement of faith describes the four core truths at the heart of Christianity, speaking about who God is, how God acts, and the community that continues His mission in the world.
What are the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the one Church we profess in the Creed?
At the very beginning of His public ministry, Jesus revealed His divine power at a celebration, transforming an ordinary element into something abundant and extraordinary, marking the first sign of who He truly is.
What is the Multiplication of Wine at the Wedding Reception at Cana?
The sacred point in the Eucharistic Prayer when the priest, through the power of the Holy Spirit, changes the bread and wine into Christ’s real presence.
What is the Consecration?
These two major sections of the Bible include the story of God’s covenant with Israel and the life and teachings of Jesus and the early Church.
What are the Old and New Testaments?
This is the title Catholics give to Mary that means “full of grace.”
What is the Immaculate Conception?
The Creed mentions this Roman governor in connection with the suffering and death of Jesus, grounding the event in real human history.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
During Holy Week, Jesus gathers with His closest followers for a final meal where He offers bread and wine in a way that reveals the depth of His mission and the kind of sacrifice He is about to make.
What is the Last Supper?
The place of reverence in a church where the consecrated hosts are kept, signifying Christ’s abiding presence among His people.
What is the Tabernacle?
These four books of the New Testament — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — tell the story of Jesus’ life, teachings, death, and resurrection.
What are the Gospels?
This is the name of the devotion where Catholics pray before Jesus present in the Eucharist outside of Mass.
What is Eucharistic Adoration?
Near the end of the Creed, Catholics profess belief in this future reality, when God will raise all people and bring His kingdom to completion.
What is the resurrection of the dead (and the life of the world to come)?
Before preaching or performing miracles, Jesus entered a period of solitude and testing that prepared Him for the mission He was about to undertake.
What is Jesus' forty days of temptation in the desert?
This opening prayer of the Mass gathers the people’s intentions into one and asks God to guide the celebration that follows.
What is the Collect?
This is the name for the first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—traditionally attributed to Moses.
What is the Pentateuch?
One of the senior leaders of the Church who advises the pope and is eligible to elect his successor.
What is a Cardinal?
The Creed proclaims that Jesus took on true human nature through the power of the Holy Spirit, marking the moment when God entered human history in a real and physical way.
What is Incarnation?
This figure plays a decisive role in the events leading to Jesus’ arrest, becoming a key part of the unfolding story even though his actions are remembered with tension, betrayal, and consequence.
Who is Judas Iscariot?
This prayer of the Mass invites the whole community to acknowledge their sins and ask for God’s mercy, and it brings forgiveness for venial sins before the celebration continues.
What is the Penitential Act?
BONUS (no point reduction): The longest book in the Bible.
What is the Psalms.