The Cross
What is Exaltation or Elevation?
In the ____ God created the heaven and the earth.
What is beginning?
This Greek word means "cross" and is a name typically given to people who celebrate their name day on September 14.
What is Stavros?
This English word is often used to translate the Greek word "logos" which St. John uses in the intro to his account of the Gospel which states "In the beginning there was the Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God."
What is word?
In the early 300s AD, practicing Christianity was illegal which led to numerous saints being martyred until this Roman emperor saw a vision of a cross in the sky which eventually led him to legalize Christianity.
Who is St. Constantine?
1 John 1:7 states that "The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son, cleanses us from all _____."
What is sin?
This woman was the mother of a Roman Emperor and took a pilgrimage to the Jerusalem where she found helped to find the "True Cross" on which Jesus was crucified.
Who is St. Helen?
In the Gospel acording to St. John, Jesus stated that "This is eternal life, that they should ____ You, the only true God, and Him whom You sent, Jesus Christ."
The healing power of Jesus lifted up on the cross was foreshadowed when the Prophet Moses lifted up this metallic object while the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness
What is a bronze snake?
This word is used to describe letters like 1 John that were written to a wide audience rather than to a person or church in a specific city.
What is "universal" or "general" or "catholic"?