Vocab 1
Refers to the 12 chosen by Jesus during the course of his public ministry to be his closest followers.
What is Apostles?
A solemn agreement between people or between God and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees.
What is a covenant?
Jesus began to publicly preach at the age of 30.
What is Jesus' Public Ministry?
Jesus called out his Apostles to follow him.
What is the call of the Apostles?
The reign of rule of God, a place of righteousness and peace, announced in the Gospel and in the person of Jesus, the Messiah.
The first of the Seven Sacraments and the door that gives access to the other sacraments.
What is Baptism?
The name given by Jesus to St. Peter, when Jesus appointed him the visible head of the Church on earth-- the first pope, as we would call him today.
What is Rock?
Jesus was tempted in the desert by the devil to eat and drink.
What is Jesus' Temptation in the Desert?
Jesus healed the blind man and lepers.
What is Healings and Miracles of Jesus?
The Apostles whom Jesus chose to help him in his ministry.
What is the Twelve?
The ritual excision of the foreskin designated as the visible sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants.
What is circumcision?
The river that formed the eastern border of Canaan.
What is River Jordan?
Jesus was born in a stable.
What is the Nativity?
Mary and Joseph found Jesus preaching in the Temple at a young age.
What is Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple?
To test, usually by offering something forbidden.
What is Tempt?
The mystery of the hypostatic union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person of the Word, Jesus Christ. To bring about man's salvation, the Son of God was made flesh and became truly man.
The years of Jesus' life before the beginning of his public ministry at age 30.
What is Hidden Years?
Jesus worked for his father at a young age.
What is Early Life of Christ?
Gabriel came to Mary and told her that she will have the Son of God.
What is the Annunciation to Mary by Gabriel?
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all appeared at the Baptism.
What is the Manifestation of the Blessed Trinity at the Baptism?
This is the ancestral home of David, which is why Joseph, being of the house of David, had to go there to be enrolled in the census ordered by Caesar Augustus.
What is Bethlehem?
The wise men who came from the East to find the Christ child in Bethlehem.
What is Magi?
Mary visited Elizabeth to tell her about her having Jesus.
What is the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth?
Jesus was baptized in the Jordan by St. John.
What is the Baptism of Christ by St. John the Baptist?
The visit of the Virgin Mary, who was already bearing the unborn Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, who in her old age had conceived a son who was to become John the Baptist.
What is the Visitation?