Epley Ch. 3

Question 0

Crucifixon

Answer 0

A form of execution in which the prisoner is nailed or otherwise affixed to a cross and left to die of asphyxiation.

Question 1

Ascension

Answer 1

Forty days after his Resurrection, the entry of Christ’s humanity into divine glory.

Question 2

The Last Supper

Answer 2

The Passover meal Christ and his Apostles celebrated before his arrest. Christ instituted the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders at the Last Supper.

Question 3

Passion

Answer 3

The suffering of Christ leading up to his Death.

Question 4

Immaculate Conception

Answer 4

In light of God’s free choice of the Blessed Virgin Mary from all eternity to be the Mother of his Son, it was ordained, from the first moment of her conception, she—by a singular grace of God and by virtue of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ—was preserved from all stain of Original Sin. Believed from antiquity, this dogma was formally defined by Pope Bl. Pius IX in 1854.

Question 5

Incarnation

Answer 5

From the Latin for “to become flesh”; 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 (cf. Jn 1:14) and became man.

Question 6

Simeon

Answer 6

St. Simeon recognized Jesus as the Christ at the Presentation in the Temple.

Question 7

The Visitation

Answer 7

The Blessed Virgin Mary visited her kinswoman St. Elizabeth (cf. Lk 1: 39-80). St. Elizabeth’s greeting, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” forms part of the Hail Mary. St. Elizabeth went on to call the Blessed Virgin Mary “mother of my Lord.

Question 8

Elizabeth

Answer 8

“The wife of St. Zechariah, mother of St. John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Question 9

Atonement

Answer 9

Reparation for an offense through a voluntary action that expiates the injustice done.

Question 10

Finding in the Temple

Answer 10

Described in Luke 2: 41-52, Christ and his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. On the return journey, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph discovered Christ was not with them and, after three days, found him in the Temple, discoursing with the teachers of the Law.

Question 11

Justification

Answer 11

Being made right with God. It is a free and undeserved gift of God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Question 12

Kenosis

Answer 12

Greek for “emptying,” it refers to Christ having emptied himself by becoming man and taking on human nature (cf. Phil 2: 5-11).

Question 13

Suffering Servant

Answer 13

In fulfillment of Isaiah 53, Christ, the Suffering Servant, suffered and died on the Cross to gain the redemption of mankind.