SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION
BAPTISM BASICS
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
The Holy Spirit & His Gifts
Saints & Stuff
100

These two material signs are essential to the Sacrament of Confirmation.

What are the laying on of hands and anointing with oil?

100

This person is the ordinary minister for baptism but others can do it under extraordinary circumstances.

Who is a priest?

100

One who is preparing for Christian initiation.

What is a Catechumen?

100

This Jewish feast commemorated the giving of the Law of Moses and was the day the Holy Spirit descended.

What is Pentecost?

100

Ancient peoples used this substance to acknowledge authority (and it became a key symbol in Confirmation).

What is oil?

200

This is the ordinary minister of Confirmation in the Western Church.

Who is the bishop?

200

This is the primary grace imparted at Baptism.

What is the grace of faith?

200

One who is newly initiated into the Sacred Mysteries.

What is a Neophyte?

200

This is the best way a disciple cooperates with the Holy Spirit.

What is by bringing the Gospel to others?

200

This organization was founded by St. Vincent Pallotti to encourage service of God, neighbor, and self.

What is the Union of Catholic Apostolate?

300

A Christian cannot validly receive this Sacrament before Baptism.

What is Confirmation?

300

These three Old Testament events all prefigure Baptism.

What are the Great Flood, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the crossing of the Jordan

300

The inclination to sin that remains even after Baptism.

What is Concupiscence?

300

The Gift that helps us show reverence for God and love for our neighbor.

What is Piety?

300

John the Baptist’s life ended this way.

What is he was beheaded at the command of Herod?

400

These two are not considered ordinary forms of Baptism.

What are Baptism of blood and Baptism of desire?

400

This is the primary grace imparted at Baptism.

What is the grace of faith?

400

Having the power to produce an effect (especially used of the Sacraments).

What is Efficacious?

400

If we respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, we should also expect to experience these.

What are the Fruits of the Spirit?

400

This Gift of the Holy Spirit gave the Mexican martyrs (the Cristeros) the supernatural courage to remain faithful to Christ even under threat of death, torture, and execution during the religious persecution in Mexico.

What is Fortitude?

500

Through Confirmation a disciple shares in all three of these ministries of Christ.

What are the ministries of priesthood, prophecy, and kingship?

500

Immediately after Baptism, a person experiences this (the transformation from a state of unrighteousness to holiness with God).

What is Justification?

500

A grace of the Holy Spirit which builds up the Church for the good of her members and the world.

What is a Charism?

500

These three human faculties are enhanced by the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

What are the intellect, the will, and the emotions?

500

The most significant contribution to a child’s growth in holiness is this.

What is the way the Faith is lived in the home?