Vestments
Introductory Rites
Gathering
Gathering
Liturgy of the Word
Story Telling
Story Telling
Liturgy of the Eucharist
The Meal
The Meal
Concluding Rites
Commission
Commission
General
100
The color of the outer vestments worn by the priest during Ordinary time.
What is green?
100
A ancient prayer of praise to God
What is the Gloria? (dates back to the third century).
100
This is what comes after the first reading.
What is the Responsorial Psalm? (More than 100% of the Psalms are read in a our three year cycle)
100
At the Presentation of the Gifts these three gifts are brought forward to the celebrant.
What is bread, wine, and the offertory money
100
The people’s response to the celebrant’s greeting (said several times during Mass), a prayer that the priest receives assistance from the Holy Spirit to fulfill his prophetic mission in the Church.
What is, "And with your Spirit"?
100
The heart of the Mass
What is the consecration?
200
This garment that represents Baptism
What is an alb?
200
A community prayer which is like a mini-confession (although, it does not replace confession).
What is the Penitential Act or Confiteor? (I confess...)
200
Written by the four evangelists that contain the words and deeds of Jesus when He walked the earth.
What are the Gospels? (89.8% of the Gospels read in our three year cycle)
200
The celebrant says these words and Eucharistic bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ.
What are the words of consecration?
200
The gesture the people make as they are being blessed.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
200
The part of Mass when we pray for the church, others, special needs, sick and the dead.
What is the Prayer of the Faithful or the Universal Prayer?
300
A scarf-like garment worn which is a sign of a priest's office.
What is a stole?
300
A prayer, sometimes recited in Greek, asking God for mercy and grace.
What is the Lord, Have Mercy/Kyrie, Eleison
300
The celebrant draws from the Scripture readings with lessons to teach the faithful how to live better lives, more faithful to Christ's call to holiness.
What is the Homily?
300
The prayer that Jesus taught us.
What is the Lord's Prayer/ Our Father?
300
Following the Prayer after Communion, one may read this to inform the people of God about church activities.
What are the announcements?
300
We bow our heads during the Creed when speaking of
What is the Incarnation. "and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man."
400
An ancient royal color worn to represent the sovereignty of Christ also associated with repentance from sin.
What is violet or purple?
400
The celebrant begins the Mass with this prayer and gesture.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
400
The second reading at Mass is mostly, from this part of the Bible.
What are the New Testament Letters or Epistles? (54.9% read in our three year cycle)
400
The priest pours a drop of water into the chalice to represent
Who are we, the people?
400
The Latin word where the "Mass" gets its name, meaning in English, "mission."
What is the Latin word Missa?
400
The only day of the year when no Mass celebrated in the world.
What is Good Friday?
500
Garment that represents Holy Orders only worn at Mass.
What is a chasuble?
500
The prayer that draws together the individual prayers of the assembly into a single prayer before God, and ends the Introductory Rite.
What is the Collect /ˈkälˌekt/ (Opening Prayer)?
500
The people recite together what we profess and what we believe.
What is the Creed?
500
This action recalls the actions of Jesus at the Last Supper when he broke bread and gave it to his apostles.
What is the fraction rite or the breaking of the consecrated bread?
500
A blessing that is Triniteirian as the celebrant makes the sign of the cross over the people
What is the Final Blessing?
500
This word literally means work of the people, within the Catholic Church it is used to describe all the public acts of worship that take place, as it draws the people into the work of God.
What is Liturgy?
600
Belt or rope symbolic of girding oneself for a journey.
What is a cinture?
600
The clergy makes this gesture at the beginning of Mass after the procession and before the greeting as a sign of devotion and respect.
What is kiss the altar? He does it to Honor the Altar of Sacrifice and reverence to the relics of the Saints placed in the Altar.
600
The reading found here, are usually is an account of God's relationship to the people of Israel before the coming of Jesus.
What is the first reading from the Old Testament (13.5% read 3 in our three year cycle)
600
This fragment is put into the consecrated wine to show the unity of the body and blood of Christ in the work of salvation.
What is a piece of the broken consecrated host?
600
The people are sent out to be missionary disciples and to carry the fruits of the Eucharist to the world.
What is the Dismissal?
600
The Mass is both a________and a__________
What is a sacrifice and a meal?