Holy Events
This event marks Jesus’ “going up” into Heaven forty days after His Resurrection.
What is the "ascension"
These Jewish leaders had high rank in the Temple and likely led the Sanhedrin.
Who are the Chief Priests?
This term means “God is with us.”
What is "Emmanuel"?
These signs or wonders can only be attributed to divine power.
What are miracles?
Speaking or thinking about God in a mocking or irreverent way.
What is blasphemy?
This feast celebrates that Mary’s body was taken directly into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.
What is the Assumption of Mary?
These scholars and teachers of Jewish Law often worked with the Pharisees and chief priests.
Who are the scribes?
The Third Person of the Trinity, who inspires and sanctifies believers.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
A person who connects or reconciles separate parties; Jesus fills this role between God and humanity.
Who is the mediator?
The term for Jesus’ Body in the Eucharist and the Church itself.
What is the Body of Christ?
This term refers to Jesus’ passage from death to life on the third day after His crucifixion.
What is the Resurrection?
The highest Jewish council of seventy-one members.
What is the Sanhedrin?
The Latin term meaning “to become flesh,” describing God becoming man in Jesus Christ.
What is the Incarnation?
When someone’s heart stops but they are revived through intervention.
What is resuscitation?
The state of never having to experience death.
What is immortality?
The fiftieth day after Easter, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles and Mary.
What is the Pentecost?
A group of Jews known for strictly following Old Testament law and believing in the resurrection of the dead.
Who are the Pharisees?
The Church teaching that is considered central, definitive, and authoritative.
What is dogma?
This belief teaches that a soul can be reborn into a new human body.
What is reincarnation?
The accounts of Jesus’ birth and early childhood.
What are the infancy narratives?
The sacred events from Jesus’ and Mary’s lives that are meditated on while praying the Rosary.
What are the Mysteries of the Rosary?
The Greek title for Mary that means “God-bearer.”
What is Theotokos?
A state of eternal life and union with God, where one experiences complete happiness.
What is Heaven?
The exaggerated use of language not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
The Hebrew word meaning “place of the skull,” where Jesus was crucified.
What is Golgotha?