Religion Quiz Study Guide

Vocab

What is liturgy?

Churches official, public, communal prayer.

What the magisterium?

Responsible under the guidance of the holy spirit, for interpreting the Deposit of Faith.

What is the trinity?

A mystery that does not 100% make sense. Referred to as the Blessed Trinity, the central Christian mystery and dogma that there is only one God in three persons! Consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

What is the liturgical year?

The Church’s annual cycle of feasts and seasons that celebrates the events and mysteries of Christs birth, life, death, and Resurrection and Ascension, and forms the context for the Church’s worship.

What is a symbol?

A object or action that points to another reality and leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery.

What is a ritual?

The established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often. The actions often have a symbolic meaning.

What is a sacrament?

An effacious+visible sign of God’s grace, instituted by Christ  + entrusted to the Church by which divine life is dispenced to us.

What is the Paschal Mystery?

Passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. IMPORTANT:  The word Paschal refers to a sign of God’s grace.

What is the Sacramental Economy?

The communication of dispensation of the fruits of Christ’s Paschal Mystery in the celebration of the Church’s sacramental liturgy.

What is Sanctifying Grace?

The grace that heals our human nature wounded by sin and restores us to friendship with God by giving us a share in the divine life of the Trinity.

What is the Actual Grace?

God’s Interventions + support for us in the everyday moments of our lives.

What is a prayer?

Lifting up one’s mind+heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.

What is Liturgy of the Hours?

Divine offeree, the official, the public, daiy prayers of the Catholic Church.

What are the ordained ministries?

Refers to ministries that require ordination such as presiding at the eucharist, hearing confession, administering Confirmation, etc.

What is a Layperson?

A everyday person like you or me.

What are the Sacramentals?

1. Blessing with Holy Water

2. Blessed Ashes

3. Prayer cards

4. Blessing meals, objects, places

5. Crucifix, rosary, palms, saint cards

What are the Types Of Prayers?

• Blessing

• Adoration

• Praise

• Petition

• Thanksgiving 

• Intercession

What are the different types of Sacraments?

• Sacraments of Christian Initiation:

• Baptism

• Confirmation

• Eucharist

• Sacraments of Healing:

• Penance

• Reconciliation

• Anointing of the Sick

• Sacraments at the Service of Communion:

• Holy Orders

• Matrimony

Important Things to Know:

Eastern Catholic Churches:

The 21 Churches of the East, with their own liturgical + adminstrative traditions, which reflect the culture of Eastern Europe + the Middle East, Eastern Catholics are in union with the Universal Church to her head, the Bishop of Rome.

The Sacraments:

• Baptism

• Confirmation

• Penance + Reconciliation

• Eucharist

• Anointing of the Sick

• Matrimony

• Holy Orders

What is a sacrament a special sign of: 

God’s Love

What is the Liturgical Year, Christmas all about and how long do we celebrate it?

Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of our lord Jesus Christ. We celebrate it

7 signs in the Gospel of John:

• Natural Mirical: John 6:16-24 - Jesus walking on Water

• John 6:5-14 - The feeding of the five thousand.

• John 2:1-11 - The changing of water into wine at Cana