The Bible
The first book in the new testament.
What is 'The Gospel of Matthew'?
A liturgical day of celebration so important that it begins the evening before.
What is a 'solemnity'?
R.C.I.A.
What is 'Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults'?
The angel that visited Mary during the annunciation.
Who is 'Gabriel'?
The founder of the Franciscan order.
Who is 'St. Francis of Assisi'?
Baptism, Confirmation, and the Holy Eucharist are collectively known 'The Sacraments of ___ '
What is 'Initiation'?
The Latin term used by the church to indicate an infallible statement from the pope.
What is 'Ex Cathedra'?
The amount of psalm poems in the bible.
What is '150'?
The name of the transparent receptacle that exposes the consecrated Host for veneration.
What is a 'monstrance'?
U.S.C.C.B.
What is 'United States Conference of Catholic Bishops'?
The term that describes theological study of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
What is 'Mariology'?
The first canonized American saint; there is a shrine dedicated to her honor in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Who is 'Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton'?
The Catechism gives the Sacrament of Penance 4 additional names. They are:
Forgiveness, Confession, Conversion, and this.
What is 'Reconciliation'?
The season of lent lasts for this amount of days.
What is '46 days'?
The shortest verse in the English bible.
What is 'John 11:35'?
("Jesus wept")
'Kyrie eleison' means this in English
What is 'Lord, have mercy'?
C.C.C.
What is 'Catechism of the Catholic Church'?
There are four Marian dogmas declared by the church, they are:
Divine Motherhood, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, and this.
What is "The Assumption of Mary"?
The founder of the Jesuit Order.
Who is 'St. Ignatius of Loyola'?
This fragrant olive oil mixed with balsam is used during the Sacrament of Holy Orders to anoint the hands of newly ordained priests; and poured on the heads of newly ordained bishops.
What is 'Holy Chrism Oil'?
The ancient liturgical hymn that is sung at ordinations while the candidates lay prostrate before the altar.
What is 'The Litany of Saints'?
The quote:
"If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."
comes from this letter in the new testament.
What is 'The First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians'?
The name of the full-length black garment worn by acolytes, clergy, and sometimes choir members in the church.
What is a 'cassock'?
G.I.R.M.
What is 'General Instruction of the Roman Missal'?
When Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France in 1858, she referred to herself with this title; after asking the 14 year old to have a chapel built in her honor.
What is 'The Immaculate Conception'?
Jesus began to appear in visions to her revealing his wounded heart in the 1600s. She later reported it and called the church to begin celebrating a feast in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Who is 'St. Margaret Mary Alacoque'?
The ministers of Holy Matrimony.
Who are 'the bride and groom'?
Priests have the option to wear rose-colored garments on only two celebrations in the liturgical year, one of them is on the Fourth Sunday of Lent (or Laetare Sunday) the other is this.
What is 'The Third Sunday of Advent ?'
(Gaudete/Rejoice Sunday)
The quote:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
comes from this book in the old testament.
What is 'The Book of Job'?
The 'body of bishops' is known as this.
What is 'The Episcopate'?
I.N.R.I.
(Latin)
What is 'Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum'?
(Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews)
When Mary found Jesus in the temple as a child (Luke 2:31-51), and He told his mother that He must be in His Father's house, what did Mary say in reply?
What is 'nothing'?
"Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart" (Luke 2:51)
Canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis, these married Catholics were the first in church history to be declared saints as a couple.
Who are 'St. Louis and St. Zélie Martin'?
The Catechism states that The Sacraments of Healing and the Holy Eucharist as viaticum are given together appropriately to those reaching the end of the Christian life.
It also specifies that this sacrament should always be the last sacrament of the earthly journey.
What is 'The Holy Eucharist'?
In a Basilica, along with the Umbraculum, you will usually find this small, ornate bell attached to a very tall rod. It is used in a special procession only when the Pope visits to celebrate mass.
What is 'a Tintinnabulum'?
Of the 37 saints named 'Doctors of the Church' - those who; through their research, study, and writing, have advanced the Church's knowledge of her own faith - there have been four women (as of September 2022).
The first among them were Saints Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, and Thérèse of Lisieux; all declared doctors in the 20th century.
But more recently, in 2012, Pope Benedict XVI declared this German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and musician with the honorary title.
She is also known as 'The Sibyl of the Rhine'.
Who is 'St. Hildegard of Bingen'?