Advent
In addition to purple, this vestment color is appropriate for Gaudete Sunday.
What is rose?
St. John of the Cross was the spiritual director for this 16th century Spanish saint, mystic, and Doctor of the Church who reformed the Carmelite order.
Who is St. Teresa of Avila?
In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus gets long winded while teaching from on top of a hill.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Belgian scientist and friend of Albert Einstein, Fr. Georges Lemaitre, is the originator of this scientific theory?
What is Big Bang?
Jesus was born in this town, meaning House of Bread.
What is Bethlehem?
The meaning of the Latin word “adventus”, from which we derive the word Advent.
What is "coming"?
A 13th century Companion of St Francis of Assisi, she was allowed by God to stream Christmas Eve Mass live on the wall in her room of the convent where she lay ill.
Who is St. Claire of Assisi?
The gospel where Jesus gives his farewell address to his beloved disciples.
What is John?
This burial cloth of Jesus is a photo negative and scientists have used it to produce a 3D image of Christ.
What is the Shroud of Turin?
The Israelites complained about eating only bread and so God sent them this migrating animal.
What are quail?
This Advent tradition tells Christ’s ancestry through the use of symbols based on Jeremiah 33:15.
What is the Jesse Tree?
A loyal friend who suffered the same beatings, imprisonment and a riot with St. Paul.
Who is St. Silas?
In Job 38-42, the longest speech in the Bible is given to Job by this primary Bible character, why not, it's His book.
Who is God?
This Augustinian Friar, at the monastery in Brno, Czechoslovakia, discovered mathematical patterns in the inheritance of the traits of pea plants thus creating the science of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Manna is known in the Bible as “bread of heaven” but that is not what the Israelites said when they first saw it.
What is what is it?
During Advent, this part of Mass is neither said nor sung.
What is the Gloria?
Three days before her death, she begged God to send such a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain that her brother St. Benedict and the monks with him were unable to leave her.
Who is Scholastica?
In Acts 7, Stephen is recorded as giving a 53 verse speech to the Sanhedrin that got him killed in this brutal manner.
What is death by stoning?
Visit this state in the USA if you want a good look at the universe from the VATT or Vatican Observatory.
What is Arizona?
Bethany is known as “house of affliction” but also for this fruit of the Mediterranean region.
What is figs or house of figs?
The season of Advent prepares us for these two events.
What are the birth and the second coming of Christ?
St Jane Frances de Chantal was a friend of this Doctor of the Church who was also bishop of Geneva. We also celebrated his feast day last Friday.
Who is St. Francis de Sales?
In Acts 20, the young man who sinks into a deep sleep and falls out of a window as Paul preaches past midnight.
Who is Eu’tychus?
In 1942, Sr. Elizabeth Kenny, whose practices revolutionized the medical world, opened her first rehabilitation-based treatment center for those suffering from this virus.
What is Polio?
Moses struck a rock and water came forth at "Meribah" but the conversation that day was not refreshing.
What is quarreling?