The Age of Faith & Beauty
Monasteries played an important role in preserving the Christian Faith and the culture of this civilization.
What is Western civilization?
God gave me the 10 Commandments.
Who is Moses?
This place is eternal life and happiness with God, the saints, and with all people who love God.
What is heaven?
This has been described as a "Wreath of Roses for Our Lady."
What is the Rosary?
A lifelong residence for monks or nuns.
What is a monastery?
The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. A gift of God's invitation to believe in Him and our grace-filled response to that invitation.
What is faith?
Blessed Julian of Norwich was this, a person who seeks to know God through spiritual insight.
What is a mystic?
A rigid social system in which people were organized according to class.
What is feudalism?
I proclaimed that God's Kingdom was at hand and announced the coming of the Messiah.
Who is John the Baptist?
This action harmed the relationship between the churches in the West and East.
What is the destruction of Constantinople?
St. Thomas Aquinas used the writings of this person to help people understand their faith.
Who is Aristotle?
This is the name for the central area of the cathedral or church.
What is the nave?
The most important book of devotion in the Middle Ages.
What is the Psalter?
I grew up in Holland. I wrote and spoke out against the Nazis. Arrested in 1942, I was sent to Dachau concentration camp where I offered spiritual counsel to fellow prisoners.
Who is Blessed Titus Brandsma?
Christians make these to Jerusalem to remember Christ's Passion and Death.
What are pilgrimages?
This, also known as divine reading, combines reading with prayer, mediation, and contemplation.
What is Lectio devina?
The term used to explain the mystery of how the bread and wine become Christ's Body and Blood.
What is transubstantiation?
When we turn away from God and His love.
What is sin?
The practices of private devotions became widespread during this time period. Stations of the Cross and the Rosary were two popular devotions developed during this time.
What are the Middle Ages?
With their high arching, rib-vaulted ceilings and elaborately decorated stained glass windows, these types of cathedrals were designed to remind people of God's power and grandeur.
What are Gothic Cathedrals?
In the second half of the nineteenth century, this group revived Gregorian Chant as a musical form for use at Mass.
What are Benedictine monks.
Known as the Great Council, the Fourth Lateran Council, called by me in 1215, was held at the Lateran Palace in Rome.
Who is Pope Innocent III
This is a holy city for Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
What is Jerusalem?
I was a 15th century monk who was concerned about people's lack of piety. I encouraged Christians to remember Christ's sufferings and to practice private devotions.
Who is Thomas a Kempis?
In a cathedral shaped in a cruciform, this place is reserved for the upper classes.
What is the Chantry Chapel?