1 Lesson 2: Pentecost

Question 1

What do you think is the reason why we begin
the school year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit?

Answer 1

TO EMPOWER US AS WE BEGIN THE
WORK FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR

Question 2

This personal experience of the Holy Spirit has been
felt first by the Apostles of Jesus in the event called:

Answer 2

Pentecost

Question 3

Jewish name(3):
Greek name:

Answer 3

J: the Feast of Harvest, the Feast of Weeks, SHAVUOT

G: Pentecost

Question 4

It is mentioned in the ________
__________
__________
__________
__________
___________

Answer 4

first five books
Genesis 23
Exodus 24
Leviticus 16
Numbers 28
Deuteronomy 16

Question 5

The early harvest (_______)
The final harvest (______)

Answer 5

Barley
Wheat

Question 6

The early harvest
came during the months of ____ and ____;

Answer 6

May and June

Question 7

The final harvest came in
the ____.

Answer 7

Fall

Question 8

Pentecost was the celebration of the beginning of the early wheat
harvest. It also commemorates the ____________________________

Answer 8

anniversary of the giving of the Torah by
God to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai.

Question 9

is the compilation of the first five books

Answer 9

torah

Question 10

Where was the giving of the Torah located?

Answer 10

Mount Sinai

Question 11

Pentecost was always ___ days after First fruits (early harvest)

Answer 11

50

Question 12

since ___ days equals ___ weeks, it always came a “____________” later.

Answer 12

50 days
7 weeks
“weeks of weeks”

Question 13

It was ___ days after the Lord Jesus had
ascended into heaven.

Answer 13

10

Question 14

Jesus had told his
Apostles “not to leave Jerusalem, but to
wait there for what the Father had
promised” (verse).

Answer 14

Acts 1: 4

Question 15

Obedient to their
divine Master, the 11 Apostles went
from the ______________________

Answer 15

Mount of the Ascension—>the Mount of Olives—>back into the city of Jerusalem

Question 16

They stayed in the Upper
Room and “joined in continuous prayer,
together with several women, including
Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brothers” (verse).

Answer 16

Acts 1: 14

Question 17

_________ people were converted on that one
day (cf. Acts 2: 41).

Answer 17

Three thousand

Question 18

The number of Christians soon rose to
__________ (verse).

Answer 18

5,000 (cf. Acts 4: 4).

Question 19

The _______ was jealous, afraid and angry that
the Apostles were preaching the resurrection of
Jesus.

Answer 19

Sanhedrin

Question 20

Jesus sent his Apostles to be his “witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout
________ and _________, and indeed to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1: 8).

Answer 20

Judea and Samaria

Question 21

The word “Church” means “__________________.”

Answer 21

that which pertains to the Lord

Question 22

_______________
stamps Catholicism with a trademark of authenticity. It guarantees the
Church’s fidelity to the God who gave her life.

Answer 22

The Holy Spirit

Question 23

At Pentecost the Holy Spirit did NOT ____________________

Answer 23

descend as a communal bonfire.

Question 24

The one Spirit of God parted and came to rest on each of the Apostles individually. The lesson?

Answer 24

We each receive our share of God.

Question 25

And God comes to us through a Church, A tongue of fire is lit in every soul at _______.

Answer 25

baptism