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in the United States
in the United States
What is the name of the Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland?
Who is Bp. Edward Malesic?
This Roman saint was martyred in the 200s AD for continuing to celebrate marriages while Christianity was illegal. His feast day is in February.
A statue-like object depicting the sacrifice of Jesus, typically hung on the wall, found in most Catholic households (and should be found in all of them!).
What is a crucifix?
According to the Book of Exodus, Moses received the Ten Commandments here.
Where is Mt. Sinai.
This is how long you are supposed to go without food or drink before receiving Holy Communion at Mass.
What is one hour prior to receiving?
This is the rough number of Catholics living in the United States (rounded to the nearest 10 million).
This saint was captured as a child, taken from England, and helped to convert all of Ireland. His feast is celebrated in March.
Who is St. Patrick?
This blessed substance, usually used to make the Sign of the Cross, can be found at the entrances of nearly all Catholic Churches throughout the world.
What is Holy Water?
(Fun Fact: It can also be cooked with!)
When Moses received the Commandments from God, this is what they were written on?
What are two tablets of stone?
This is the day of the week you are required to go to worship & honor God as a Catholic.
What is Sunday?
This nationality was the first to have a Mass on the North American Continent, in 1526.
Who are the Spanish?
(The Mass was offered in 1526 in modern day South Carolina.)
This saint watches over Police Officers & Military members. (Hint: he is an angel)
Who is St. Michael the Archangel?
This sacramental object can be used to pray 5 "decades" of prayers typically divided into 4 different sets of mysteries.
What is the Rosary?
When asked which commandment was the greatest in the law, Jesus responded with...
What is "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength."
(and the second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.) - Matthew 22:39
These are the two components that make up the unconsecrated hosts.
What are wheat and water?
This is the rough number of priests in the United States?
What is 35,000-40,000?
This is saint started the Sisters of Charity and worked her whole life taking care of the sick and dying in India.
Who is Mother Teresa?
A devotional prayer, typically done publicly in Church on the Fridays of Lent that reflects on important moments of Christ's Passion.
What are the Stations of the Cross.
On top of the Ten Commandments, there are the additional 5 Precepts (i.e. Commands) of the Catholic Church found in the Catechism. Name one.
This is what the Mass is an unbloodied re-presentation of.
What is Jesus' death on the cross?
This is the rough number of Catholic primary, secondary and collegiate schools in the United States.
What is 7,000?
This soft spoken saint's last known words to us, recorded in the scriptures, are "Do whatever he tells you!"
(They were referring to Jesus).
Who is St. Mary, Mother of God?
This devotion consists of nine days of prayer, usually leading up to a feast day, and takes its name from the latin word for nine.
What is a novena?
Prior to Jesus' having filled the Jewish law, there were not just 10 Commandments but this many.
What is 613?
The moment at Mass when the priest, using the words of our Lord, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
What is the Consecration?