Celebrating Mass
The celebration of the Lord's day and his Eucharist. The Catholic communities' most important act of worship.
What is Mass?
Conceived free of original sin- The Immaculate Conception.
Who is Mary?
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; three persons in one God.
What is the Holy Trinity?
They are known as the four evangelists, and some important Bible authors.
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
Love God above all and love your neighbor as yourself.
What are the 2 Great Commandments that Jesus gave us?
The prayer said at Sunday Mass to profess our beliefs as Catholics.
What is the Nicene Creed, and/or the Apostles Creed?
A person who dies for their faith.
Who is a Martyr?
The term is used for the mystery of the Son of God becoming man?
What is the Incarnation?
The parable Jesus told to teach about who is a good neighbor, the one about the man who was beaten and robbed on the road to Jericho.
What is the Good Samaritan?
Where individuals renounce Satan and sin, and profess faith in God, Jesus Christ, and the Church.
What are Baptismal Promises?
A form of prayer offered for the needs of our community and the world around us?
What are intersessions?
The leader of the church over a specific geographic area, or dioceses.
Who is a bishop?
Jesus promise to send him, through the Father, to be continually present in the Church as a counselor and guide?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
In the Old Testament, God made a covenant with Noah, He would never again devastate the earth by this.
What is water?
This is known as the living, teaching office of the church.
What is the Magisterium?
Objects, prayers, or blessings given by the Church to help us grow in spiritual life; are used when celebrating Mass and the Sacraments.
What are Sacramentals?
Formally known as Saul, a persecutor of Christians.
Who is Saint Paul the Apostle?
The reason Human beings have dignity, it has to do with how we are made.
(What is) We are made in God's image and likeness?
Jesus taught his disciples and the gathered crowd how to be happy on Earth and in Heaven by following the Beatitudes in this speech.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Mary being taken up into heaven, body and soul.
What is the Assumption?
The high point of the Mass when the priest, invoking the Holy Spirit, changes bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
What is the Consecration of the Eucharist?
Called by God to leave his home for Canaan, he was promised that he would be the father of many nations and that his descendants would inherit the land.
Who is Abraham?
A feast day commemorating when the Holy Spirit came down upon the Apostles and bestowed upon them the courage to go out and spread the Word of God.
What is Pentecost?
In a parable Jesus told about forgiveness, the father is joyful when this person returns home.
Who is the prodigal son?
Jesus' suffering, death, resurrection and ascension.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
The first major part of the Catholic Mass featuring a first reading from the Old Testament, the psalm, a second reading from New Testament, and the Gospel.
What is the Liturgy of the Word?
The current leader of the Catholic Church throughout the world.
Who is Pope Leo XIV?
The virtue in which we place our trust in Christ’s promises and rely on grace of the Holy Spirit to sustain us during difficult times or when we are discouraged.
What is Hope?
From the Gospel of John, we find the parable where Jesus teaches about our need to stay connected to God in order to bear good fruit.
What is the parable of the Vine and Branches?
The doctrine that refers to the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
What is Transubstantiation?