CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY S4

Question 1

4.1 - ARCHITECTURE

Answer 1

“The church building ought to be a worthy place for prayer and sacred ceremonial.”

Question 2

4.2 - INTERNAL FEATURES - Tabernacle, Altar & Lectern

Answer 2

“The tabernacle is to be situated in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honour” - CCC

Question 3

4.3 - SACRED OBJECTS & VESSELS - paten, ciborium, chalice, hunger cloths, sarcophagus

Answer 3

“The Eucharist is the sacrament of Sacraments”
“We look forward to the resurrection of the dead” - Nicene Creed

Question 4

4.4 PAINTINGS - The Prodigal Son, The fall of Adam

Answer 4

“Sacred art is true and beautiful when its form corresponds with evoking and glorifying the transcendent mystery of God.”

Question 5

4.5 Sculptures & Statues - Michaelangelo’s Pieta

Answer 5

“man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God by the beauty of his artistic works.”

Question 6

4.6 - SYMBOLS

Answer 6

“I am the alpha & the Omega, the first & the Last.”

Question 7

4.7 - Drama - Mass, Passion & mystery plays

Answer 7

“Do this in memory of me.”

Question 8

4.8 - Traditional & Contemporary music (Plainchant, hymns, psalms.)

Answer 8

“Address one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.”