House of God
FROM PARADISE TO THE Church
Church
Life
EASTWARD ORIENTATION
SHAPE OF THE CHURCH
100

This is how the lesson described the church instead of simply calling it a building.


What is an embassy of Heaven?

100

Jacob gave this name to the place where he dreamed of the ladder.

What is Bethel?

100

Liturgy means this type of worship.

What is public worship?

100

Christians pray facing this direction.

What is East?

100

The Coptic Church traditionally uses this design.

What is the ship?

200

During the Commemoration of the Saints, we should imagine these joining us in worship.


What are the saints? 

200

Jacob poured this on the stone after his dream.

What is oil?

200

The altar reminds us of these three events in Christ's life.

What are His suffering, death, and burial?

200

St. Ephraim says Christians face East because this was located there.

What is Paradise?

200

Noah's Ark is a symbol of this.

What is the Church?

300

During the hymns, the lesson tells us to imagine these heavenly beings singing with the deacons.


Who are the cherubim and seraphim?

300

Moses and Elijah both built altars using this number of stones.

What is twelve?

300

According to St. Chrysostom, after leaving church we should act as though we came from this place

What is Heaven?

300

According to Matthew 24:27, Christ's Second Coming will come from this direction.

What is the East?

300

According to St. Augustine, the number of people saved in Noah's Ark points to this number.

What is eight?

400

According to Lesson 1, the Holy Spirit shapes the Church into an exact copy of this Person.

Who is Christ?

400

This part of the Tabernacle symbolizes Baptism.

What is the Laver?

400

Jesus called His Father's house this after cleansing the Temple

What is a House of Prayer?

400

During Baptism, after rejecting Satan, the person turns toward this direction.

What is the East?

400

St. Clement compared Christ to this role on the Church's ship.

What is the Captain?

500

Name three things the lesson says Christians should do because they belong to the House of God.

What are love others, serve in humility, seek others' salvation, deny ourselves, and sacrifice for others? (Any three.)

500

This item in the Tabernacle symbolizes Christ feeding us with His Body and Blood

What is the Table of Shewbread?

500

In the hymn Epouro, we ask Christ to do these two things for the Church

What are disperse her enemies and strengthen (fortify) her?

500

St. Athanasius said Christ faced this direction while hanging on the Cross.

What is the West?

500

St. Hippolytus said the ropes of the ship symbolize this.

What is the love of Christ?