The Paschal Mystery
These four events make up the Paschal Mystery.
What are the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension?
This is a visible sign that affects what it signifies and gives us grace.
What is a Sacrament?
In the Old Passover, the Israelites were enslaved to this; in the New Passover, humanity is enslaved to this.
What are Egypt and sin?
These are the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
What are Mary, Mother of God; Perpetual Virginity; the Immaculate Conception; and the Assumption?
This word means “to take on flesh.”
What is the Incarnation?
This is the saving work of Jesus Christ by which He destroyed sin and death and restored our relationship with God.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
This is what the sacraments impart on the soul.
What is grace?
Moses is the mediator of the Old Passover, while this person is the mediator of the New Passover.
Who is Jesus?
This Marian dogma is the foundation for all other Marian truths.
What is Mary, Mother of God?
These are the three central mysteries of the Catholic faith.
What are the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Paschal Mystery?
This Hebrew word is the origin of the word “Paschal” and means “to pass over.”
What is Pasach?
This Greek word is the origin of both the words “mystery” and “sacrament.”
What is mysterion?
The unblemished lamb of the Old Passover points to this title of Jesus in the New Passover.
Who is the Lamb of God?
This Greek word means “God Bearer.”
What is Theotokos?
One reason why the Word became flesh.
What is..
- To save us from sin
- To show us God's love
- To be a model of Holiness
- To make us sharers in divine life
Humanity’s need for salvation was first acknowledged in this book of the Bible after the Fall.
What is Genesis?
These are the Latin words for Mystery and Sacrament.
What are Mysterium and Sacramentum?
In the Old Passover, blood was placed on doorposts; in the New Passover, blood is poured out here.
What is the Cross?
The first Marian dogma was officially discussed at this council.
What is the Council of Ephesus?
Nestorius claimed Mary was only the Mother of Christ; this belief was wrong for this reason.
What is because Jesus is one divine Person, fully God and fully man?
Why do we need to be saved?
What is because humanity sinned and we cannot restore our relationship with God on our own.
The interchangeable meaning of mystery and sacrament is this phrase.
What is a visible sign of grace (or invisible reality)?
The Old Passover brought temporary freedom, while the New Passover brings this.
What is eternal freedom (life)?
This is the union of Jesus’ divine and human natures in one Person.
What is the Hypostatic Union?
This saint corrected Nestorius using a syllogism to defend Mary as Mother of God.
Who is St. Cyril of Alexandria?