Holy Family
She is the person who we direct our prayers and requests to when we pray the rosary.
Who is Mary
These dishes are affixed to every entrance to every church and hold holy water.
What are Holy Water fonts?
The Catholic Church began when Jesus died. The church is about ____ thousand years old.
What is TWO.
Describing God’s creation of the world in terms that we can understand, this book is the first in the Bible.
What is Genesis?
The Holy Land where Jesus was born and died is known as this modern day country.
What is Israel?
Besides being father to Jesus, Joseph also held this profession.
What is a carpenter?
The church stands and recites this together during mass to reaffirm our beliefs.
What is The Nicene Creed?
The Catholic Church considers these earliest followers of Jesus to be its first bishops.
What are the disciples?
This large group of books makes up the first part of the Bible and includes Jewish teachings, histories, books of the prophets and even books of poetry.
What is the Old Testament?
Mary travelled from Nazareth to Bethlehem before Jesus’s birth. She was traveling in this direction.
What is South?
This cousin of Jesus was just months older than him and before Jesus's ministry began, he was spreading the news of his coming to those who would listen.
Who is John the Baptist?
There are three biblical readings during mass. Only the priest can read this third reading.
What is the gospel?
In the early times of the Catholic Church, many people were tortured or killed for their Christian beliefs. Some of these people became Saints and are often referred to using this word that starts with an “M”.
What are Martyrs?
Describing in detail Jesus’s birth, life, ministry and death, this is the first book of the New Testament.
What is Matthew?
This is the name of the large body of water around which much of Jesus’s ministry took place. It is also where he commanded Peter to walk on water.
What is the Sea of Galilee?
She was John the Baptist’s Mother and also Mary’s cousin.
Who is Elizabeth?
During the preparation of the Eucharist, the altar servers ring bells three times signifying these three things.
What is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
Also a disciple of Jesus who denied knowing him at the time of his crucifiction, this Saint became the leader of the first church and is known as the first Pope.
Who is Saint Peter?
The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are often read during mass and make up this portion of the New Testament.
What is the Gospel(s).
Today the Holy Land is shared by three major world religions including Christianity. These are the other two religions.
What are Judaism and Islam?
This man thought he was too old to have children with his wife Elizabeth, but learned of her pregnancy during a visit from the Angel Gabriel.
Who is Zechariah?
After communion the host is put away where?
What is the Sacristy?
This was the huge and widespread government which covered much of Europe, the Middle East and some of Africa at the time of Jesus’s death. After he died, this empire fought against the rise of Christianity by outlawing it and killing many of those who believed in Jesus.
What is the Roman Empire?
This book is found mid-way through the Old Testament and is a compilation of poems written to God. Some of the poetry was believed to be written by King David and often parts of this book are sung or repeated by churchgoers during Mass.
What is Psalms?
These trees grow wild throughout the Holy Land. Many are estimated to be between 1000 and 2000 years old which means some that exist today in the Garden of Gethsemane were there in Jesus’ time.
What are olive trees?