Our Faith
Jesus often taught using short stories that illustrate a moral truth. What are they called?
Parables.
Objects & Actions that signify spiritual effects obtained through the sacraments are called?
Sacramentals
What is the Annunciation?
When the angel Gabriel announced to Mary she would be the Mother of God.
The Liturgical Year starts when?
The first Sunday of Advent
God gave Moses the 10 Commandments. What did Jesus give us to live by?
The Beatitudes.
The form of prayer where we contemplate on the life, death & resurrection of Jesus with Mary?
The Rosary
What are the Sacraments of Initiation?
Baptism, Eucharist & Confirmation
What & when is the Ascension?
When Jesus ascended into heaven 40 days after Easter.
We are currently in what time of the Liturgical Year?
Easter Season
During the Consecration, the priest says the words Jesus spoke at what?
The Last Supper
The first 3 Commandments deal with our relationship with who?
God
What are the Sacramtents in Service to Others?
Matrimony & Holy Orders
What is the Assumption?
The teaching that Mary was assumed into heaven body & soul when her time on earth was completed.
Ash Wednesday begins what season of the church year?
Lent
The bread & wine are changed into the Body & Blood of Jesus during what part of the Mass?
The Eucharistic Prayer/the Consecration
The last 7 Commandments deal with what?
Our relationships with others
Name 4 sacramentals.
Holy Water, Sign of Cross, Holy oils, candles, white garments, blessings, processions, medals & statues.....
What is the Paschal Mystery?
The suffering, death, REsurrection & ascension of Jesus Christ.
How long does the season of Lent last and what should it bring to mind?
40 days & reminds us of the Isrealites wandering the desert for 40 years and Jesus' 40 days in the desert where he was tempted by the devil?
The teaching office of the church made up of the Pope & all the Bishops.
The Magisterium
Loving deeds by which we care for the physical needs of others are called?
The Corporal Works of Mercy
What are the Sacraments of Healing?
Reconciliation & Anointing of the Sick
What is the Transubstantiation?
The change of the whole substance of the bread & wine into the Body & Blood of Christ.
The 3 days of the Passion, Holy Thursday, Good Friday & Easter Saturday are known as what?
The Triduum
Who is our Parochial Vicar?
Fr. Dan Ruprecht