Jesus taught using these short and memorable stories that relate common experiences to religious truths.
What are parables?
100
At the Transfiguration, God the Father speaks from heaven, God the Son becomes as white as the sun, and God the Holy Spirit is represented by this.
What is a cloud?
100
Every parable has a "material" level and this kind of level.
What is spiritual?
100
These are called "children of God."
Who are the peacemakers?
100
In the essay we read by C.S. Lewis, this animal stands for a merely animal nature that takes no interest in what's true.
What is a rabbit?
200
This is any thought, word, or act that expresses hatred or contempt for Christ, God, the Church, saints, or holy things.
What is blasphemy?
200
The appearance of these two men at the Transfiguration recall how the Law and the Prophets had announced the coming of the Messiah.
Who are Moses and Elijah?
200
This parable illustrates how the Kingdom of God starts small in the present but grows and flourishes in the future.
What is the parable of the mustard seed?
200
This is the Beatitude that refers to "those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good." (Hint: It is not the same as weakness!)
What is meekness? Or, "Blessed are the meek."
200
Jesus’ ministry and message centered around the proclamation of what?
What is the Kingdom of God?
300
This phrase (two words) refers to the presence of Jesus Christ in the consecrated species of bread and wine.
What is Real Presence?
300
This kind of miracle established Jesus' power over Satan.
What is an exorcism?
300
Jesus told the parable of the Pharisee and this man to attack those who think of themselves as virtuous and superior to others
Who is the tax collector?
300
This is the "Paraclete" who comforts those who mourn.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
300
According to C.S. Lewis, Christianity claims to give an account of this.
What are facts, or truth, or reality -- the way the universe really is?
400
This word means "supreme happiness."
What is beatitude?
400
The multiplication of the loaves is an example of this kind of miracle.
What is a nature miracle?
400
Jesus used this parable to challenge people who criticized him for associating with sinners.
What is the parable of the Prodigal Son?
400
According to the CCC, the Beatitudes respond to the natural human desire for this.
What is happiness?
400
Matthew’s Gospel uses this expression rather than “Kingdom of God” as a sign of reverence for the holy name of God.
What is "Kingdom of Heaven"?
500
The Latin word "beatus," from which we get "beatitude," means this.
What is "blessed"?
500
This miracle fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church into the glory of the Kingdom.
What is the Eucharist?
500
Jesus told this parable against the scribes and chief priests who did not accept his authority. The message is that because of the rejection of Jesus’ teaching, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from those to whom it had been entrusted.
What is the parable of the Tenant Farmers?
500
According to this great theologian, the rewards of the Beatitudes "will be fully consummated in the life to come: but meanwhile they are, in a manner, begun, even in this life."
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
500
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, these are the two reasons that Scripture uses figures of speech (such as parables).
What is (1) for the exercise of thoughtful minds, and (2) as a defense against the impious.