HTGOC SS HS Review 1
St. Irene, St. Agatha, St. Katherine, St. Stephen, St. George.
What are martyrs?
Cesar Augustus ordered a census. Although they lived in Galilee, they had to go in this city where Christ was born.
What is Bethlehem?
She was the young daughter of Dioscorus. She was born in Heliopolis and became the patron saint of those working with explosives.
Who is St. Barbara?
We use palm leaves and at the end of the service on this feast day we receive a little cross.
What is Palm Sunday?
What is Christianity book?
What is the Bible?
There was rejoicing in all the Christian Churches. A church was built there on the Mount of Olives where Empress Helen found it.
What is the finding of the true cross of Christ?
Joseph, the younger son of Jacob, was sold as a slave and ended up in this country. Another Joseph had to take the mother and child & fee in the same country for the fear pf Herod.
What is Egypt?
He is riding a horse and kills with a spear a beast that looks very much like a dinosaur.
Who is St. George?
Jesus' Christ Resurrection.
What does Pascha celebrate?
Animals that have divided hooves and chew cud and sea creatures with fins and scales.
What are clean animals?
If someone asks you to define your faith as a Christian?
What is The Creed?
In the book of Joshua (chapter 6), the walls of this city fell down after the Israelites marched around it.
What is Jericho?
In the icon he holds a branch with an apple and he is the patron saint of the cooks.
Who is Euphrosinios the Cook?
All the Apostles came back from around the world for the first time after Jesus' Resurrection to pray.
What is The Dormition of the Theotokos?
Jerusalem, Caesarea, Crete, Malta, Rome.
What is the Journey of St. Paul?
Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom.
What are The Three Hierarchs?
Island Barnabas was from and where the first Christians were converted by disciples from Jerusalem, fleeing the persecution of Saul!
What is Cyprus?
He was a hierarch of the Church and many of his family members became saints. We celebrate his liturgy mainly during the Sundays in Great Lent.
Who is St. Basil the Great?
Joachim and Ana were very happy that day. At their old age, their daughter was born. We celebrate that event every year on Sept 8.
What is the Nativity of the Theotokos?
Orthodox churches have a strong believe in this as part of their fundamental structure.
What is apostolic succession?
Here we see harmony and subjection to God’s action; there (tower of Babel) we see confusion and disunity from an attempt by man to reach God by his own means, resulting in hatred, racism and war.
What is Pentecost?
This monastery is the oldest Christian monastery and was built on the same mountain on which Moses received the tables of law.
What is St. Katherine of Sinai?
The heretics cut his right hand and his tongue to prevent him to preach and to write the Orthodox Faith.
Who is Maximus the Confessor?
This feast day marks the beginning of the public ministry of our Lord. Since there is a manifestation of the Holy Trinity, one of the names for this feast is "The feast of the Lights".
What is the Epiphany?
"Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people, a light to enlighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel"
What is Simeon the God-receiver?