Alpha Basics
The three key elements are food, a talk, and discussion.
What is a typical Alpha session?
There are this many books in the Catholic Bible.
What is 73?
This means "universal".
What is "Catholic"?
Our current Pope chose his name after this saint.
Who is Saint Francis of Assissi?
This is the prayer "par excellence" of the Church.
What is the Lord's Prayer?
This is when many guests on Alpha get their breakthrough moment.
What is the Alpha weekend away?
These are the synoptic Gospels.
What are Matthew, Mark and Luke?
These are holy days of obligation in Canada.
What are Sundays, plus 1 January (the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God) and 25 December (solemnity of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ)?
This saint was the last surviving apostle.
Who is Saint John the Apostle?
This means "yes, so be it".
What is "Amen"?
This is something we don't do with Alpha guests until week 5.
What is pray with them?
The siblings of Moses, who journeyed with him on the Exodus.
Who are Aaron and Miriam?
Including the Luminous, there are this many Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.
What is 20?
This saint wrote the Summa Theologica.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
This biblical prayer is Mary's canticle of praise to the Lord.
What is the "Magnificat"?
In Alpha, we try to be R___, R_________, and R______.
What is Real, Relational, and Reliant on the Holy Spirit?
This is the city where Jesus met Zacchaeus.
What is Jericho?
This is the teaching office of the Church.
What is the Magisterium?
This saint is usually pictured writing or holding a Gospel and is represented by a lion.
Who is Saint Mark?
These are the two common variations of the Creed.
What are the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed?
This is the church where Alpha began.
What is Holy Trinity Brompton, in London England?
These are the patriarchs of Israel.
These are the four pillars of the Catechism.
What are 1) the Creed, 2) Sacraments, 3) Morality, and 4) Prayer?
This saint was the most recent living Doctor of the Church.
Who is St. Therese of Lisieux?
These are the three expressions of prayer preserved in the Tradition (Catechism) of the Church,
What are vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplative prayer?