LEVEL: 1 - Novice [CATEGORY Practice, Prayer, Custom & Culture]

Question 1

This term refers to the refraining from eating meat, soups and gravies made from meat.

Answer 1

What is abstinence?

Question 2

This word describes a priest brother or sister who belongs to a religious congregation.

Answer 2

What is a religious?

Question 3

This is God’s calling of a person to a particular way of life, especially the priesthood or religious life.

Answer 3

What is a vocation?

Question 4

This is the prayer before meals.

Answer 4

What is: “Bless us, 0 Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen”?

Question 5

These are the four major prayers that constitute the rosary.

Answer 5

What are: The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s Prayer, The Hail Mary, and the Glory be to the Father?

Question 6

This number constitutes the total number of mysteries in the entire rosary.

Answer 6

What is 15?

Question 7

These are three vows taken commonly by religious men and women.

Answer 7

What are: poverty, chastity, and obedience?

Question 8

This prayer is also called the Angelical Salutation.

Answer 8

What is the Hail Mary?

Question 9

This term describes the calling of one to a religious life, particularly the calling to the priesthood.

Answer 9

What is vocation?

Question 10

It is made from the hardened resins of various plants or trees that give off an aromatic smoke when burned.

Answer 10

What is incense?

Question 11

This is the bending of the knee in adoration when one enters a church or passes before the tabernacle, which contains the Body and Blood of Christ.

Answer 11

What is genuflection?

Question 12

These are the number of Hail Marys said during a complete 15-decade rosary.

Answer 12

What are 153?

Question 13

These are the number of Our Fathers said during a complete 15-decade rosary.

Answer 13

What are 16?

Question 14

This is normally the last prayer said during the recitation of the rosary.

Answer 14

What is the Hail Holy Queen?

Question 15

This is what members of a religious corrununity do in a refectory.

Answer 15

What is eat?

Question 16

This is the decade of the rosary that remembers Christ’s intense spiritual suffering where HE sweat blood.

Answer 16

What is the Agony in the Garden? (or lst Sorrowful Mystery)

Question 17

This article, made of wool, was given to St. Simon Stock.

Answer 17

What is the Brown Scapular?

Question 18

This admonishment God gave to Adam and Eve is repeated on Ash Wednesday when our foreheads are blessed with ashes.

Answer 18

What is, “Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return?”

Question 19

This is what we call days on which we are not allowed to eat meat.

Answer 19

What are days of abstinence?

Question 20

These can be gained for the remission, in whole or part, of sin.

Answer 20

What is an indulgence?

Question 21

This is a term applied to representations of the dead Christ in art.

Answer 21

What is the Pieta?

Question 22

Before the bishop gives a book his imprimatur, it is examined by this cleric for error.

Answer 22

What is a censor?

Question 23

These are the words which define imprimatur.

Answer 23

What are Let it be printed?

Question 24

The pope is elected by this body of men.

Answer 24

What is the College of Cardinals?

Question 25

This is the religious garb of a monk, nun or priest.

Answer 25

What is a habit?

Question 26

The power to expel demons is given in this Person’s name.

Answer 26

What is Jesus’ name?

Question 27

Necromancy, which is the evoking of the dead in the quest for knowledge of future or hidden things, was condemned by the Church during the Middle Ages and is now known by this term.

Answer 27

What is spiritism?

Question 28

These days are never days of fasting or abstinence.

Answer 28

What are:
1. Sundays
2. Holy days of obligation
3. Feast days?

20 Bonus Points

Question 29

This “cloth medal”. having Mary’s Immaculate Heart on one side and a prayer on the other is especially efficacious in bringing those fallen away Catholics back to practice of the faith.

Answer 29

What is the green scapular?

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Question 30

This is another name for the Order of Friars minor.

Answer 30

What are the Franciscans?

Question 31

Raymond’s father told him that he was going to punish him. So, Raymond went to his mother saying that he was sorry for what he had done, and asked her to speak to his father for him. She did and Raymond was not punished. This reminds us of our reason for praying to Our Blessed Mother and the saints.

Answer 31

What is to speak for us? (to intercede).

Question 32

We must do this if we want to receive the graces we need.

Answer 32

What is ask? (ask and you shall receive).

Question 33

The words in the Act of Faith by which we tell God the reason why we believe in Him.

Answer 33

What is, “You have revealed them. Who can neither deceive, nor be deceived?”

Question 34

When you say, or hear this Holy Name, it is a sign of reverence to bow your head.

Answer 34

What is the Name of Jesus?

Question 35

This is the type of prayer in which we ask God to grant our needs.

Answer 35

What is petition?

Question 36

This prayer contains the chief doctrines of the Catholic faith.

Answer 36

What is the Apostles’ Creed?

Question 37

These are burned into ashes on Ash Wednesday.

Answer 37

What are last year’s blessed palms?

Question 38

This is a band or circle of green foliage with three purple candles and one rose candle.

Answer 38

What is an Advent wreath?

Question 39

This is the Joyful Mystery and the Feast Day on which we celebrate Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth.

Answer 39

What is the Visitation (second Joyful Mystery)?

Question 40

Amen means this in Hebrew.

Answer 40

What is So be it?

Question 41

On the first Friday and Saturday of the month we venerate these aspects of Jesus and Mary.

Answer 41

What are: His Sacred Heart and Her Immaculate Heart?

Question 42

This is the black ankle length gown worn by clergy.

Answer 42

What is a cassock?