Observance
On Fridays during Lent, Catholics are not supposed to eat the following food item.
What is meat?
Which apostle was the first pope?
Who is Peter?
The sacrament which the individual is anointed with oil called Chrism and sealed with the Holy Spirit.
What is Confirmation?
This is the first day of Lent and is marked by fasting and the marking of foreheads in the sign of a cross.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The number of decades in the Holy Rosary.
What is 5?
The 28 day period leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
This saint, whose feast day is celebrated in a popular March holiday, brought Christianity to Ireland.
Who is Saint Patrick?
Sacrament in which our relationship with God is mended and we receive absolution.
What is the Reconciliation?
This day commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and comes near the end of Lent.
What is Good Friday?
The number of Sacraments of the Church.
Or
Name all the Sacraments for a Daily Double.
What is 7?
Or
What isBaptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders Matrimony?
The term for days where Catholics are expected to attend Mass.
What is "Holy Day of Obligation"?
Upon being elected Pope in 2013, Pope Francis became the first pope to be born and raised outside Europe. What continent did the Pope come from?
What is South America?
The consecration of man and woman into one.
What is matrimony?
This day that Jesus had the Last Supper with the disciples.
What is Holy Thursday?
The number of Gospels.
Name them for a Daily Double.
What is 4?
Or
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
The term for the ceremonial touching of forehead, chest and shoulders before prayer.
What is the sign of the cross?
Prior to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which allowed for The Mass to be spoken in the local language of the parish, the Mass was spoken by the priests worldwide in this language, which dates back to the Roman Empire.
What is Latin?
One which Father Jack and Father Rainer both received and none of us have.
What is Holy Orders?
This is the day immediately after Halloween and which commemorates the dead in Heaven and those in the church who led exceptional lives.
What is All Saints Day?
Number of times Peter denied knowing Jesus before the Rooster crowed.
What is 3?
This Roman Emperor was the first Emperor to convert to Christianity and who legalized the religion in Rome.
Who is Constantine?
The "sacrament of healing" given to sick or elderly people.
What is Anointing of the Sick?
Name the Catholic Day of Obligation which occurs 40 days after Easter and commemorates Christ going to heaven?
What is Ascension Thursday?
The number apostles of Jesus.
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Name them for a Daily Double.
What is 12?
Or
Who were Peter, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the Lesser, Jude Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot?