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In the Old Testament it referred to a holder of an office, a teacher of the Jewish scriptures.
What is a rabbi?
A Jewish house of meeting.
What is a synagogue?
The long-promised Anointed One, God the Son in human form.
Who is Jesus Christ?
A cousin of Jesus, older by six months, his baptizing and preaching in the wilderness prepared the way for Christ.
Who is John the Baptist?
The prayer Christ taught his disciples which also provides the model for all of our prayers.
What is the Our Father or Lord's Prayer?
A holy man who recognized the Christ child when Jesus was presented at the Temple.
Who is Simeon?
A town on the Sea of Galilee that became Christ's home during his Galilean ministry.
What is Capernaum?
The manifestation of Jesus as the Christ. This feast day celebrates the adoration of the Christ child by the Magi.
What is Epiphany?
To test, usually by offering something forbidden.
What is tempt?
This prayer is the words with which the Archangel Gabriel greeted Mary at the Annunciation.
What is the Hail Mary?
Name for the male children in and around Bethlehem whom Herod ordered to be executed.
Who are the Holy Innocents?
The city where Jesus Christ was born, and the ancestral home of King David.
What is Bethlehem?
Name for the period of time of Jesus' life from age 12 to age 30 which teaches us that there is holiness in the ordinary tasks of daily life.
What is Jesus' hidden life?
To go without food, an ancient religious practice that denies the wants of the body in order to strengthen the spirit.
What is fasting?
The dogma that Mary, from the moment of her conception, was preserved from Original Sin.
What is Immaculate Conception?
Men whom Christ chose to help him in his ministry. (also the number of tribes of Israel)
Who are The Twelve?
River where Jesus was Baptized.
What is the Jordan?
Amount of forgiveness we must give to those who offend us even our enemies.
What is unlimited?
The number of days Christ fasting in the desert?
What is 40?
To wash ceremonially, this sacrament was instituted by Christ to wash away the stain of Original Sin and all actual sins.
What is baptism?
The two most famous ancestors of Christ.
Who are David and Abraham?
City in which the child Jesus remained without his parents for 3 days while he was teaching in the Temple.
What is Jerusalem?
The central event in all of human history.
What is the Incarnation?
Turning water into wine was Jesus' first public miracle that took place here.
What is (The Wedding Feast) Cana?
Where Christ was found after being missing for three days when he was 12 years old.
What is the temple?