Holy Week
The one day in Holy Week that has the most prayers prayed, readings read, and more hymns chanted than at any other time.
What is Good Friday?
The prodigal son was a slave (metaphorically) to his_____.
The time that Christ comes to the Samaritan Woman
What is the 6th hour (12pm)?
The amount of time that the paralytic man was paralyzed for.
Complete the verse
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, ______"
What is "that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life"?
The Paschal hymn in Coptic. (200 pts)
The book in the Bible that we get the hymn from. (200 pts)
What is Thok Te Ti Gom?
What is the Book of Revelations?
What did the father give the son when the son came back? (200 pts)
What did they represent? (200pts)
What are a robe and ring?
What is baptism and the Holy Spirit?
The name of the Samaritan Woman
Who is St. Photini?
Adam covered himself with the leaves of a ____ tree.
What is a fig tree?
(The fig tree with its broad leaves represents the wide road. Also, it reminds us of the sin which Adam tried to cover with its leaves." ~St. John Chrysostom)
The readings for Holy Week are primarily taken from this book in the Bible.
What is Isaiah?
(Contains most of the prophecies concerning Christ.)
The father's home symbolizes _____.
What is heaven?
The number of times we read the gospel of the Samaritan Woman in the year (for 300 pts)
When we read the gospel of the Samaritan Women (for 300 pts)
What is 2?
What is during Lent and during Pentecost?
Christ's reasoning for the man born blind.
What is that the works of God should be made manifest in him?
The reason why the psalms in the Bible are numbered differently than those in the Agpeya.
What is the numbering in the Septuagint (Greek Manuscript)?
The two important events that occurred on Monday of Holy Week
What is the casting out of the merchants in the temple and cursing the fig tree?
What is the son implying about the father by asking for his inheritance?
The church considers St. Photini to be the first ____.
What is an evangelist?
A core belief the Jews held as to why the blind man was born blind in the first place.
What is the idea that someone must have sinned - either his parents or himself before birth?
The place that the altar symbolizes
What is Jerusalem?
(This is why we do Holy Week prayers in the middle of the Church, Christ was crucified outside of Jerusalem. We only go back on Holy Thursday when the Eucharist was given.)
The frequency at which the Early Church would celebrate Pascha
Every 33 years
How do we see the trinity represented in the story of the Prodigal Son?
The father = The Father
Fatted Calf = Christ/The Son
Ring = The Holy Spirit
According to the social tradition at the time of the Samaritan Woman, people should never exceed (#) of husbands.
What is three?
This is why St. Photini was condemned
The miracle of the paralytic man was done on this Feast.
What is the Feast of Pentecost?
(according to St. Cyril and St. John Chrysostom)
This Feast of Pentecost in the OT, before the resurrection, was celebrated by the Jews for the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai.
Order of the Sundays of Lent
1. Treasures in Heaven
2. Temptation Sunday
3. The Prodigal Son
4. The Samaritan Woman
5. The Paralyzed Man
6. The Man Born Blind
7. Palm Sunday
8. Easter Sunday