Devotions, prayers, and liturgical year
This liturgical season celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after conquering sin and death.
What is Easter?
This persecutor of Christians was converted by Jesus on his way to Damascus and became the Apostle to the Gentiles.
Who is Saul of Tarsus/St. Paul?
This meeting of cardinals elects a new Pope with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
What is a conclave?
Wounds to the Church's unity usually take these three forms.
What are apostasy, heresy, and schism?
Appearing to two shepherd children in France in 1846, this Marian apparition wept and shared a message of reconciliation and conversion.
Who is Our Lady of La Salette?
Two important figures for the Church are represented by these flaming hearts: the first crowned with thorns and wounded in its side, and the second encircled with roses and pierced by a sword.
What are the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
This is an efficacious outward sign and conferral of God’s grace instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church.
What is a Sacrament?
This Greek word, meaning “sacred order," refers to the order of teaching authority in the Church.
What is hierarchy?
These sets of beliefs were opposed to the Catholic Church because they claimed that Jesus was not one person with a 100% divine nature and 100% human nature.
What were the early Church heresies?
At the Visitation, after her cousin Elizabeth called Mary the "mother of my Lord," Mary responded with this exclamation of praise and thanksgiving to God.
What is the Magnificat?
During the penitential season of Lent, Catholics undertake these three "pillars" in order to remind themselves of their humility, sinfulness, and dependence upon God.
What are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?
This terms refers to when the whole mystical body, Christ the head and his members, worships the Father and continues the effects of his death and resurrection by which he accomplished our salvation.
What is the liturgy?
Christ gave the Church the authority to evangelize by giving it these two things.
What are the Magisterium and the Deposit of Faith?
The Great Schism in the 11th century led this church to branch off from the Catholic Church; even though its members are not eligible for salvation, they are the closest to the Church because they believe in Apostolic Succession and their Eucharist is valid.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
These Marian prayers are traditionally said at noon every day, one during Ordinary Time and the other during the Easter season.
What are the Angelus and the Regina Caeli?
These three holy days make up the short liturgical season of the Triduum.
What are Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday?
These three events confirmed the fact that Gentiles--not just Jews--could be Christians (name at least one).
What are St. Philip baptizing the Ethiopian, St. Peter baptizing the Proselytes of the Gate, and the Council of Jerusalem?
These four branches of the Roman Curia assist the Pope in the administration of the Vatican.
What are the Secretariat of State, the Congregations, the Tribunals, and the Pontifical Councils?
In the 1600s, this event was caused by schismatics (Martin Luther, John Calvin, etc.), sociopolitical issues, and corruption within the Catholic Church.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
These four Marian dogmas teach about the importance of Mary for the Catholic Church.
What are the Divine Motherhood, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, and the Perpetual Virginity?
These two devotional prayers both commemorate mournful events in the life of Jesus and Mary, culminating in the passion and death of Jesus on the cross.
What are the Stations of the Cross and the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
These three secondary features of the Church are the fulfillment of the Queen Mother, the Prime Minister, and the Thank Offering in the Davidic Covenant.
What are the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Peter, and the Eucharist?
These five precepts of the Church do not guarantee salvation, but they do give us basic moral norms for remaining in Christ’s grace.
What are attending Mass, confessing your sins, receiving the Eucharist, observing days of fasting and abstinence, and providing for the needs of the Church?
The Mystical Body of Crist bears witness to the unity of the Church in these three ways.
What are unity of faith, unity of worship, and unity of leadership?
Mary holds this title because she already possesses the glory and grace that await the faithful at the end of time.
Who is the Queen of Heaven/the Archetype of the Church?