Advent/Christmas
This is the scene depicted by the Franciscan monks to show Jesus' birth.
What is the Nativity?
This is the 4th commandment.
What is: Honor your mother and father?
This is the bishop's region which he controls.
What is a diocese?
This is the Holy Day we celebrate honoring the fact that the Virgin Mary was born without sin. (Triple if you can provide the date.)
What is the Immaculate Conception?
These are LETTERS from St. Paul, St. James and others to those in the early church, which give us hope and divine instruction. The word itself means "letters."
What are the Epistles?
The 3 Wise Men brought these gifts.
What are gold, frankincense and myrrh?
These are the two kinds of Catholic Works of Mercy.
What are: Corporal and Spiritual?
Told the frightened shepherds about Jesus' birth. (Triple)
Who are the angels?
He gave the Israelites the 10 Commandments.
Who was Moses?
St. Peter Basilica (Triple)
What is the name of the Catholic Church's main church in the Vatican which is the pope's seat?
This is the first day of Lent.
What is Ash Wednesday?
These people foretold the coming of Jesus.
Who are the prophets?
The angel told Mary to call her son this. (Triple)
What is Jesus?
This is the final Corporal Works of Mercy.
What is bury the dead?
This person was totally responsible for the entire story of the Nativity in the Bible.
Who was the Virgin Mary? "She kept all these things in her heart."
This Commandment deals with lying.
What is the 8th Commandment?
Purple is worn during the following seasons:
What are Lent and Advent?
This is the day which is the birthday of the Church. The Holy Spirit came to the apostles with tongues of fire and a great wind.
What is Pentecost?
These are the 4 gospel writers.
Who are: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
INRI (Triple)
This was at the top of the cross and means: Jesus King of the Jews
These are two groups of the Corporal Works of Mercy we need to visit.
What are: Visit the Sick and Visit the Imprisoned?
It was a common blood offering in the Old Testament and Jesus represented this offering in the New Testament. It is why we call Him this animal that was also spoken of at His birth.
What is the lamb?
These are the first 3 commandments which deal with God.
What are: I am the Lord your God you shall not have strange gods before me, You shall not take the Lord's name in vain and You shall keep holy the Lord's day?
This is when the bread and wine actually through a miracle become the body and blood of Jesus. This happens are every Mass.
What is transubstantiation?
This is the holiest Holy Day of the year.
What is Easter?
These are the 3 Archangels.
Who are Michael, Gabriel and Raphael?
He massacred the Innocents.
Who was Herod?
These are two of the Spiritual Works of Mercy.
What are (any 2): Counsel the doubtful, Instruct the Ignorant, Admonish Sinners, Comfort the Afflicted, Forgive Offenses, Bear Wrongs Patiently, Pray for the Living and the Dead.
These are the themes for the 4 weeks of Advent.
What are: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love?
This week uses pink to celebrate.
What is the third week of Advent?
The Greatest Commandment Jesus gave us, (2 parts)
What is love God with all your heart, mind and strength AND love your neighbor as yourself?
This is the gathering of cardinals who seclude themselves away from the world to pick a new pope. The word comes from the Latin word for key.
What is a conclave?
This is the Holy Day when we celebrate Mary going to heaven body and soul.
What is the Assumption?
Jesus said about him, "I will build my church on this rock." (Double)
Who was Peter? (Our first pope.)
Jesus is from his house as the prophets foretold.
What is the House of David?
These are 2 Spiritual Works of Mercy that applies to us personally as individuals.
What are: Forgive Wrongs Patiently and Bear Wrongs Patiently?
This is when the angel Gabriel told Mary she was to have Jesus.
What is the Annunciation?
These Commandments deal with envy.
What are the 9th and 10th Commandments?
Consubstantiation.
What is the word that describes that Jesus is both God and Man at the same time?
This is the prayer we say in confession or reconciliation asking God's forgiveness. (Double)
What is the Act of Contrition?
This agreement God made with the Israelites in the Old Testament. Jesus is the new agreement.
What is covenant?
This is where Joseph took Mary and Jesus right after Jesus was born as told to do by an angel.
What is Egypt?
These are three of the Corporal Works of Mercy.
What are (any 3): Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Clothe the Naked, Shelter the Homeless, Visit the Sick, Visit the Imprisoned, Bury the Dead. (Double)
It is called the Incarnation.
What do we call it when the second person in the Trinity, Jesus, became man and lived among us to accomplish our salvation?
These are the 5th, 6th and 7th Commandments.
What are: You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery and You shall not steal?
This is the nine day prayer we can say for a special intention.
What is a novena?
These are the 3 types of Grace.
What are: Habitual, Actual and Sanctifying?
One of the four Gospel writers, he gave us our traditional nativity story.
Who was St. Luke?
This means God is with us.
What is Emmanuel?
He founded a religious order and a secular order to bring the Works of Mercy to all people. We have a secular chapter here at our church.
Who is: St. Vincent de Paul?
The 3 gifts brought by the Magi symbolized these things. (Name each item and what it meant.) (Double)
What are: Gold-kingship and immortality
Frankincense-Offerings at the temple to God by the chief priests and elders
Myrrh-For pain, embalming and death?
These are the 10 Commandments in order.
What are:
This is where the consecrated host is kept during adoration. (Double)
What is a Monstrance?
These are the 2 prayers that sum up our beliefs. (Double)
What are: The Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed?
They are 3 of the people who wrote the Epistles.
Who are (any 3): Paul, Peter, John, James and Jude.
These are 4 of the 5 official names given to the Second Person of the Trinity from the Bible. (Double)
What are: Yeshua, Emmanuel, Jesus, Christ, Messiah?
These are the 7 Corporal Works of Mercy.
What are: Feed the Hungry, Give drink to the Thirsty, Clothe the Naked, Shelter the Homeless, Visit the Sick, Visit the Imprisoned, Bury the dead.