Liturgical Calendar & Colors
This is the liturgical color worn by priests during Ordinary Time to symbolize spiritual growth and hope.
Answer: What is green?
True or False: In addition to the special feast days throughout the year, every single Sunday is a Holy Day of Obligation
What is True?
This is the definition of a Sacrament: An outward sign instituted by Christ to give _________.
According to the Fourth Commandment, we are called to honor these two specific people.•
Answer: Who are your father and mother?
We pray this core prayer on all the big beads of the Rosary, which begins with the words, "Our Father, Who art in heaven...
Answer: What is the Lord's Prayer (or Our Father)?
This purple-hued season marks the very beginning of the Church's liturgical year as we prepare for the birth of Christ.
Answer: What is Advent?
This Holy Day celebrated on January 1st honors Mary's unique role as the mother of Jesus.•
Answer: What is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God?
This is the very first Sacrament we receive, which washes away Original Sin and welcomes us into God's family.
Thid Commandment tells us to worship God alone and strictly forbids this sin of putting other things ahead of Him.•
Answer: What is the 1st Commandment?
This is the name of the main prayer we repeat ten times in a row during each section of the Rosary to ask for Mary's prayers.
Answer: What is the Hail Mary?
This is the color used for vestments during the joyful seasons of both Christmas and Easter.
Answer: What is white?
Celebrated 40 days after Easter, this day marks the moment Jesus returned to His Father in Heaven.
Answer: What is the Ascension of Our Lord?
In this Sacrament, we receive the real Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.
Answer: What is the Holy Eucharist?
The Eighth Commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," is a direct instruction against doing this.
Answer: What is lying?
A standard Rosary has a small model of this object attached to the bottom, where Jesus died for our sins.
:This 40-day liturgical season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving uses the color violet to symbolize penance.
Answer: What is Lent?
Observed on August 15th, this Holy Day celebrates Mary being taken body and soul into heavenly glory.
Answer: What is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
This Sacrament of Healing restores our relationship with God after we have sinned.•
Answer: What is Reconciliation (or Confession)?
The Third Commandment says, "Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day," which means Catholics have a duty to do this every weekend.
Answer: What is attend Holy Mass?
This is the name given to each group of 10 beads on a Rosary string.
Answer: What is a decade?
This color is worn on Good Friday, Palm Sunday, and Pentecost to symbolize the Holy Spirit or Christ's blood.
Answer: What is red?
Celebrated on November 1st, this day honors all the holy men and women who have reached heaven, both known and unknown.
Answer: What is All Saints' Day?
These are the three Sacraments of Christian Initiation that completely ground us in our Catholic faith.
Answer: What are Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist?
These 2 commandments tell us to not "covet" people or things.
Answer: What is the Ninth and Tenth Commandments?
These are the special events in the lives of Jesus and Mary that we think about and picture while we pray the Rosary.
Answer: What are the Mysteries?