Life of Christ
When Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem to be consecrated to God, and the Holy Family met Simeon and Anna
What is the Presentation in the Temple?
The day that the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles, allowing them to speak in tongues and convert many new Christians
What is Pentecost?
The first pope, who was martyred by being crucified upside down
Who is St. Peter?
Sacrament by which the believer is forgiven of original and personal sin, begins a new life in Christ and the Holy Spirit, and is incorporated into the Church
What is Baptism?
A branch of theology that purports to defend and explain the Christian religion
What are apologetics?
Herod’s massacre of male infants in Bethlehem after failing to locate the infant Jesus
What is the Slaughter of the Innocents?
The event when an early persecutor of the Church was journeying to Damascus and experienced a vision of Christ that blinded him temporarily. The feast of this event is commemorated on January 25
What is the Conversion of St. Paul?
The “Beloved Disciple” and author of the Book of Revelation, he was the only Apostle who was not martyred
Who is St. John?
An early Christian religious meal that was at first closely related to the celebration of the Eucharist. Due to abuses, its celebration was moved to the evening before being discontinued entirely
What is the Agape?
Also known as The Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, it is a short work of sixteen chapters that concerns Christian morals, doctrine, and customs. It was written in the first century but was lost for centuries until rediscovery in 1873
What is the Didache?
what do we call the time the Gospel records very little of his life until Jesus begins his public ministry.
Hidden Years
The first of many councils in Church history, at which the question of Gentile converts’ observance of Jewish Law was settled in AD 49/50
What is the Council of Jerusalem?
Author of the only Gospel written in Aramaic, he had a special apostolic mission to the Jews and was a tax collector before Christ called him
Who is St. Matthew?
An underground series of tunnels, chambers, and tombs that served as an important gathering place for early Christians
What are catacombs?
The well-educated son of a Roman centurion who converted to Christianity in midlife and earned the title “Father of Latin Theology” for his well-written defenses of Christianity before breaking from the Church later in his life
Who is Tertullian?
The most concise and direct collection of Jesus’ teaching, when He transformed the Old Testament notion of justice with a call to charity and gave us the Beatitudes and the Lord’s Prayer
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
The direct participation in the sufferings of Christ which early Christians saw as the surest means to sanctity and entrance into Heaven
What is martyrdom?
A doubtful but zealous apostle who may have evangelized as far as India and been martyred there. The Malabar Christians of India claim him as their evangelizer
Who is St. Thomas?
The Vicar of Christ and successor of St. Peter, who has the responsibility and supreme authority of guiding the Church after Christ’s departure
Who is the Pope?
A Father of the Church and probably the most important theologian in the Roman Church in the third century, his importance in the West was forgotten for a time
Who is St. Hippolytus?
The definitive event of Christ’s victory over death, whereby He called every person to repentance and the fullness of filiation with the Father
What is the Resurrection?
art of the Deposit of Faith, which includes this and Scripture. It has been passed down through the line of bishops since the days of the Apostles
What is the Tradition of the Church?
Also known as Thaddeus, he is the patron of lost causes and the author of an epistle. He shares a feast day with St. Simon the Cananean on October 28
Who is St. Judas?
The written canon of Old and New Testament books that, together with Sacred Tradition, comprise the Deposit of Faith
What are the Scriptures?
Three of the four written accounts of Jesus’ life, which are so similar that they have been given this title which means “seeing together”
What are the Synoptic Gospels?