Special days
General Catholic Questions
symbols/signs
prayers
Bible stories
100
Celebration of the Birth of Christ. December 25 each year.
What is Christmas?
100
The lectern where the Word of God is proclaimed at Mass.
What is the Ambo?
100
This is distributed on Ash Wednesday, the first day that Lent begins.
What are ashes?
100
the prayer that Jesus taught in Matthew 6:9-15
What is the Lord's Prayer (or the Our Father)?
100
The first book of the bible, which contains the stories of creation, Adam and Eve, the Flood, Abraham, and Jacob.
What is Genesis?
200
Celebration of the Resurrection of Christ.
What is Easter?
200
The father of John the Baptist.
Who is Zachariah?
200
After the Lord's prayer is said at Mass, we greet each other with this sign.
What is the sign of peace?
200
The prayer the angel greeted Mary with, when the Mary agreed to give birth to Jesus.
What is the Hail Mary?
200
The story about the son who asks his father for his inheritance early, then squanders it, and returns to his father.
What is story of the Prodigal son?
300
Celebration of the day that the Holy Spirit came to the apostles as they were hiding, according to the Acts of the Apostles.
What is Pentecost?
300
The amount of money given to Judas to betray Jesus.
What are thirty pieces of silver?
300
This was one of the oldest Christian symbols, used by Christians to identify themselves to each other in times of persecution
What is a fish? (or Ichthys)
300
The prayer that is prayed holding onto a string of beads, with each bead symbolizing a prayer.
What is a Rosary? or What is the Divine Mercy Chaplet?
300
After Jesus is arrested, this disciple denies that he knows Jesus three different times.
Who is Peter?
400
Celebration of the saint who supposedly rid Ireland of snakes.
What is St. Patrick's day?
400
The word used to explain three persons in One God : Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
What is the Trinity?
400
This is a symbol used to depict the Holy Spirit in religious drawings or religious works of art.
What is a dove?
400
The way to pray, in which a scripture passage is read, and then reflected on in a personal way
What is lectio divina?
400
At the last supper, Jesus tells this man to leave the table early, knowing that this man will betray him.
Who is Judas?
500
Celebration of the day that Jesus was taken up into heaven, 40 days after Easter.
What is Ascension Thursday?
500
Jesus said that he would make Peter and Andrew this.
What is "Fishers of Men"?
500
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
What is the sign of the cross?
500
A prayer generally prayed before or during reconciliation.
What is the Act of Contrition?
500
This man was found in the Nile River by the Pharoah's daughter when he was a baby, and was adopted by the royal family, later leading his real people, the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
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