Saints
For this Saints feast day, it is tradition that two candles crossed together are placed across the neck and the following blessing is said "...may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every illness."
Who is Saint Blaise?
This type of Mass has bells rung 14 times.
What is a High Mass?
This is the name given for a crown made by shaving the upper part of the head.
What is Tonsure?
These are the three Theological Virtues.
What are Faith, Hope, and Charity?
In this town the angel announced the conception of Our Lord in Our Lady's womb.
What is Nazareth?
This Saint was the first native born American cannonized by the Church.
Who is Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton?
In the Proper of Seasons, this is another name for Pentecost.
What is Whitsunday?
According to thee Catechism, this type of sacramental comes first among sacramentals.
What are blessings?
This term refers to the sorrow for sin because of love for God.
What is Perfect Contrition?
This is the name for the first five books of the Old Testament.
What is the Pentateuch?
This Saint is known for protecting her convent against attackers with the Sacrament in a monstrance before a convent gate.
Who is Saint Claire?
This is the prayer the priest says before reading the Holy Gospel.
What is the Munda For Meum?
You complete your "Easter Duty" by doing this.
What is going Confession at least once a year?
This term is given to knowledge which can only be obtained by divine communication.
What is Infused Knowledge?
Who is St Jerome?
These two Saints can be reffered to the "Sons of Thunder."
Who are Saint James and John?
This is the number of genuflections in the Latin Mass.
What is 16?
Our Lord revealed to Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun from the Order of the Visitation, this devotion.
What is the Sacred Heart?
This Council inspired the Baroque movement in the arts.
What is the Council of Trent?
Mary, first appearing in Exodus, is sister to this most important prophet and priest.
Who is Moses?
This Saint had 24 syblings and one was a twin.
Who is Saint Catherine of Siena?
This fan is used in pontifical ceremonies to show honor for the Pope and to also keep insects away from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ.
What is a flabellum?
This dicastery of the Roman Curia issues indulgences, and it also absolves latæ sententiæ excommunications and dispenses sacramental impediments reserved to the Holy See.
What is the Apostolic Penitentiary?
This Heresy tried to separate the "Angry God" of the Old Testament from the "Nice God" of the New Testament.
What is Marcionism?
Alongside Mary Mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, according to John, stood this Mary at the cruxifixction.
Who is Mary of Cleophas?