Canon & Liturgy
The Greek term meaning "rule" or "measuring stick" for the books of Scripture
What is Canon?
The sense of Scripture that seeks a lesson to apply to personal behavior.
What is the Moral Sense?
The title given to Christ for restoring the humanity broken by the first Adam.
What is the Second/New/Final Adam?
This object in Jacob’s vision represents the Incarnation uniting Heaven and earth
What is Jacob's Ladder?
The only reading in the Divine Liturgy that is not taken from the Bible
What is the Synaxarium?
A person, event, or thing in the Old Testament that points to something greater in the New.
What is a Type?
The figure whose name means "King of Righteousness" and who offered bread and wine to Abraham
Who is Melchizedek?
The bush that was on fire but not consumed symbolizes this mystery of the Virgin Mary
What is the Virgin Birth?
The two virtues required to read the Bible properly according to the text.
What are Humility and Obedience?
St. Augustine’s quote regarding the relationship between the two Testaments
What is "The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New"?
This mediator between God and Israel at Mount Sinai foreshadowed Christ's ultimate mediation
Who is Moses?
The item carried up the mountain by Isaac that prefigures Christ carrying the Cross
What is the wood?
The authoritative source the Church looks to for interpreting Scripture,aside from the Bible itself.
What are the Church Fathers?
St. Cyril’s metaphor for finding Christ deep inside the pages of Scripture
What is the Pearl of Great Price?
This patriarch's betrayal by his brothers and subsequent "resurrection" to power mirrors Christ's life
Who is Joseph?
This dry, dead object miraculously sprouted flowers, symbolizing life without human seed.
What is the Rod of Aaron?
In the Liturgy of the Word, the Church celebrates six specific readings in a strict, established order. Name these six readings in order.
What are: 1. The Pauline, 2. The Catholic, 3. The Praxis, 4. The Synaxarium, 5. The Psalms, and 6. The Gospel?
The two main ways the Church Fathers taught the faithful to read the Bible
What are the literal reading and the spiritual reading?
The figure who wrestled with God, pointing to the mystery of the Incarnation
Who is Jacob?
What the sharp thorns of the burning bush revealed about Christ’s glory as King.
What is the Crown of Thorns?