Saints
The patron saint of lost causes and hopeless situations.
Who is St. Jude?
The term for the practice of NOT eating meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and the Fridays of Lent, Catholics ages 14.
What is abstaining?
The person responsible for the first murder in the Bible.
Who is Cain?
On Christmas Day in the year 800 the pope crowned this king the first "Holy Roman Emperor"
Who is Charlemagne?
Altar servers often carry this tall cross at the start of Mass.
What is the processional cross?
The apostle who tradition says was skinned.
Who is St. Bartholomew?
The level of Holy Orders required for a cleric to be able to consecrate the Eucharist?
What is priesthood/presbyteral ordination?
Jesus compared the Kingdom of God to this tiny seed that grows into a large plant.
What is a mustard seed?
This Polish pope, elected in 1978, encouraged the Solidarity movement in his homeland and began World Youth Day.
John Paul II
After the first reading the assembly sings this Scripture song, usually from the Book of Psalms.
What is the Responsorial Psalm?
The first saint of the Americas, being from Lima, Peru.
St. Rose of Lima
At Confirmation the bishop anoints with chrism and uses this historical and significant gesture.
What is the laying on of hands?
At Joshua’s command the walls of this city fell down.
What is Jericho?
St. Junípero Serra founded a chain of missions along the coast of this future U.S. state.
What is California?
The deacon or priest carries this special book in procession and proclaims the Gospel from it.
What is the Book of the Gospels?
This Italian-born sister founded schools and orphanages in the United States and is the first U.S. citizen saint.
Who is St. Frances Xavier Cabrini?
The term that describes a church or system governed by an order of bishops.
What does Episcopal mean?
This prophet challenged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, and fire from heaven consumed his sacrifice.
Who is Elijah?
For about 70 years the popes lived in this city in France instead of Rome.
What is Avignon?
The Church ranks days as solemnities, feasts, and these simpler celebrations of saints. (The lowest level above just a normal day)
What are memorials?
This Philadelphia heiress gave away her fortune and founded schools for Native American and African American children.
Who is St. Katharine Drexel?
Sanctifying grace is God’s life in the soul. This other kind of grace is God’s help in a particular moment.
The third son of Adam and Eve.
Who is Seth?
From 1378 to 1417 more than one man claimed to be pope. This crisis ended at the Council of Constance.
What is the Western Schism?
The Latin name for a Bishop's throne, found in his church.
What is a Cathedra?