Sacraments
These are the two parts of the outward sign of a sacrament.
What is form and matter?
The ordinary minister of Confirmation
Who is the bishop? Any priest may, with permission, administer the sacrament.
The proper age when one may receive Holy Communion.
What is the age of discretion?
The title for Mary, Mother of God. (In Greek, of course)
What is Theotokos
"Could all this just "fall into place?"
Or is there a Mind behind time and space?"
What is the Teleological Argument, objection to blind chance?
The Council of Jerusalem happened in this year
What is 49 AD?
The sacraments able to receive more than once.
What are Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, and Matrimony?
The form of Baptism
What is "I baptism you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit?"
The center or climax of the Mass
What is the Consecration?
The classical definition of Apologetics
What is the science which proves the reasonableness of the Catholic Faith?
"Eyewitnesses died 'fore they'd change their word,
Truth so loud, you ain't gotta be heard."
What is the Historical claim to Jesus?
God is immutable
What is "not subject to change?"
The only sacrament where the minister is not the bishop, priest or deacon.
What is matrimony?
The remote matter of Baptism
What is pure natural water?
The meaning of Transubstantiation
What is the change or conversion of the entire substance of the bread into the substance of the Sacred Body of Christ, and of the entire substance of the wine into His Precious Blood?
The importance of Josephus when discussion apologetics about Jesus
What is great creditability for a non-christian to say truthful things about Jesus?
"Can't create itself, nah, that's a flaw.
So, what's the first mover, the uncaused kick?
Something timeless, beyond, cosmic and slick.
What is the Cosmological Argument? There must have been a first or prime mover, and that is God.
The start of the protest by Martin Luther
What is October 31, 1517?
The official order, ordinarily, of the Sacraments of Initiation
What is Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist?
The remote matter in Confirmation
What is holy chrism?
The meaning of Corpus Christi
What is "the Body of Christ?"
The threefold office that Jesus invested for the work of redemption
What are priest, prophet and king?
"Couldn't be chance, to precise to dismiss,
look around, you feel it--truth wrapped in bliss"
What is the Teleological Argument? The universe is the work of a supreme intelligence, that is God.
The meaning of "ex opere operato"
What is "by the deed done?"
This early Christian manual written before the first century provides instructions on the sacraments.
What is the Didache?
The three types of Baptism
What are sacramental, by desire and by blood?
The Mass has all of these conditions required for a true sacrifice. (Name three)
What is gift, immolation, authorized offerer, religious purpose and accepted by God?
Infallibility of Popes explained
What is when the Pope speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals?
"Purpose in the chaos, beauty in the scheme,
Can't chalk all that up to a fever dream.
What is God, an intelligent designer who makes the most complicated ordered and reflects his own beauty?
The meaning and expression of "motu proprio"
What is an edict issued by the pope personally to the whole or part of the Church?
The sacraments may be divided into those whose purpose is to perfect the individual and those intended to perfect society. List the ones to perfect the individual.
What are Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance and Extreme Unction?
This mark or seal which distinguishes us from all who are not Christian, and which prevents the sacrament from being received more than once.
What is an indelible character?
One of the four proofs of the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist
What are words of promise in John 6, words of institution by Jesus, words of St. Paul and the constant teaching and practice of the Church.
These Councils (name the two) decided on the official Canon
What is Hippo in 393 or Carthage or 397?
"On this rock, He built His crew,
Gave Peter the keys-yeah, that's the clue."
What is Jesus came to start a Church with a hierarchy?
The date of the infallible decree proclaiming the Immaculate Conception
What is December 8, 1854?
Two kinds of grace are produced in the sacraments.
What are sanctifying grace and special actual graces called sacramental grace.
The additive that make Holy Chrism fragrant
What is Balsam?
The three churches (name two), prior to the Protestant Reformation, that left the Catholic Church but still maintained the Real Presence.
What are the Coptic, Orthodox and Armenian Churches.
The main reason why the books of Maccabees are not accepted by Protestants.
What is the scriptural evidence for the doctrine of purgatory?
"From Rome to the globe, it's active, massive."
What is the Church is universal or catholic.
The 7 Books Rejected from the Hebrew Canon during the Protestant revolt.
What are Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit, 1 and 2 Maccabees?