LEVEL: 2 - Junior [CATEGORY Practice, Prayer, Custom & Culture]

Question 1

This abbreviation stands for the Dominican Order of Preachers.

Answer 1

What are the initials O.P?

Question 2

These initials stand for the Jesuit order of priests.

Answer 2

What are the initials S.J. (Society of Jesus)?

Question 3

These initials stand for the Marists or Marianest priests.

Answer 3

What are the initials S.M. (Society of Mary)?

Question 4

These initials stand for Benedictine monks.

Answer 4

What are the initials O.S.B. (Order of St. Benedict)?

Question 5

These initials stand for the Franciscan order.

Answer 5

What are the initials O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor)?

Question 6

These initials stand for the Servite priests.

Answer 6

What are the initials O.S.M. (Order of Servants of Mary)?

Question 7

This is a vision or supernatural manifestation that God pemlits to be seen by the witnessing .

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What is an apparition?

Question 8

This is the obligation of all the faithful who have attained the use of reason to receive Holy Communion at least once during the season of Easter?

Answer 8

What is the Easter Duty?

Question 9

This is an active expression of the virtue of religion, which can be practiced by all.

Answer 9

What is prayer?

Question 10

In the religious sense, this is the repair of some spiritual damage done to a person.

Answer 10

What is reparation?

Question 11

This is a deliberate, voluntary promise made to God, binding under sin, by which one obliges oneself to do something that is pleasing to God and that does not hinder or prevent a higher good.

Answer 11

What is a vow?

Question 12

In Greek, these words are Kyrie Eleison and Christe Eleison.

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What are Lord have Mercy, and Christ have Mercy?

Question 13

These are the fourteen praises recited or sung at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in reparation for sins of sacrilege, blasphemy, and profanity.

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What are the Divine Praises?

Question 14

These are two categories of prayer.

Answer 14

What are vocal and mental?

Question 15

These are special prayers or devotion, carried out nine days in a row.

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What is a novena?

Question 16

This word in the Apostles’ Creed refers not to the place of the damned but the abode of the just who died before Christ and were awaiting him.

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What is hell?

Question 17

This religious order has as its motto: “To the greater glory of God.”

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Who are the Jesuits?

Question 18

This is another name for the Order of Friars Minor.

Answer 18

What are the Franciscans?

Question 19

We use this term to describe acts of self-discipline, including prayer and fasting, and growth in virtue.

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What is mortification?

Question 20

In Aramaic, this means father.

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What is Abba?

Question 21

These are the scratchings of names, ejaculations, and prayers by medieval pilgrims on Christian monuments, particularly early on tombs.

Answer 21

What are graffiti?

Question 22

These are the four chief ways of obtaining grace.

Answer 22

What are
1. Reception of the sacraments
2. Prayer
3. Penance (acts of mortification)
4. Good works?

Question 23

These are the names of the eight Canonical hours.

Answer 23

What are:
1. Matins
2. Lauds
3. Prime
4. Terce
5. Sext
6. Vespers
7. Nove
8. Compline?

Question 24

Let your light shine before all men in order that they may see your good works, instructs Catholics to this.

Answer 24

What is set a good example?

Question 25

These are the words which the poet Dante wrote over the gates of Hell.

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What are: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
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Question 26

The medal of this saint is the only one which has an exorcism prayer engraved on it.

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Who is St. Benedict?

Question 27

Summer residence for the popes, situated 15 miles SE of Rome.

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What is Castel Gandolfo?
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Question 28

Religious drama centering about the Passion of Christ. One of the most famous is Oberanunergau in Bavaria.

Answer 28

What is a Passion Play?

Question 29

An individual kneeling bench with a raised desk-like front on which the arms can be rested and which usually contains a shelf to hold books.

Answer 29

What is a Prie-dieu?

Question 30

On this Sunday of October, which is known as Respect Life Sunday, in many cities in Canada and the United States, the people form lines with signs against abortion.

Answer 30

What is Life Chain Sunday?

Question 31

To the greater honour and glory of God is the motto for this group.

Answer 31

Who are the Jesuits?

Question 32

In the Divine Office, this is a chant from Scripture but not from the Psalms.

Answer 32

What is the Canticle?