RCC Novice level Flashcards
This prayer is composed of the words of the Annunciation addressed to the Blessed Virgin by the angel
Gabriel, and of the words of Mary’s cousin Elizabeth, and a supplication added by the Church.
What is the Hail Mary?
These are the 5 Joyful Mysteries of the rosary.
What are: (1) The Annunciation (2) The Visitation (3) The Birth of Christ (The Nativity) (4) The
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. (5) The Finding of Jesus in the Temple?
These are the 5 Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary.
What are: (1) The Agony in the Garden. (2) The Scourging at the Pillar. (3) The Crowning with
Thorns. (4) The Carrying of the Cross. (5) The Crucifixion and Death of Christ?
These are the 5 Glorious Mysteries of the rosary.
What are: (1) Jesus Rises from the Dead. (2) Jesus Ascends into Heaven. (3) The Holy Spirit
Descends upon the Apostles. (4) Mary is Assumed into Heaven (The Assumption) (5) Mary is
Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth?
This mystery describes the visit made by the Blessed Mother of Christ to her cousin, Elizabeth, while
Mary was with Child, as recorded in the Gospels.
What is the Second Joyful Mystery, the Visitation of Mary.
This medal was struck after the apparitions of St. Catherine Laboure in 1830.
What is the Miraculous Medal?
The Third Commandment declares we must “Keep Holy the Sabbath.” We obey this commandment by
following this precept of the Church.
What is “attend Mass on Sundays and other holy days of obligation.”
This sacred Marian shrine is located in Portugal.
What is Fatima?
This is possession of a human person by the devil
What is diabolic possession?
This saint founded the Society of Jesus.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Loyola?
This revered Franciscan established nine missions in California.
Who is Blessed Junipero Serra?
It was to this person that the Virgin Mary declared herself as the Immaculate Conception.
Who is St. Bernadette (Soubirous)?
The Church has dedicated the month of May in honor of this person.
Who is Mary, the Mother of God?
Catholics believe that this condition existed of Mary before and after the birth of Jesus, but Protestants
think that it contradicts the idea of her as a mother.
What is Mary’s perpetual virginity?
A portrait of the Blessed Virgin appeared on the mantle of this Mexican peasant.
Who is Saint Juan Diego?
These were the month and year of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima.
What is May 1917?
The Blessed Virgin requested that this prayer be inserted between the mysteries in reciting the rosary.
What is: “0 My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven,
especially those in most need of Thy mercy?”
These commandments forbid coveting.
What are the Ninth & Tenth Commandments?
Saying, “I am not worthy to die as my Lord did,” he asked to be crucified upside down.
Who is St. Peter?
It was here that the Blessed Virgin appeared in 1858 in France to St. Bernadette.
What is Lourdes?
Other than God Himself, our greatest help against the temptations presented by the devil.
Who is the Blessed Virgin? (Mary our Mother).
The fact that Mary was conceived without original sin is this dogma.
What is the Immaculate Conception?
This pope solemnly defined the Assumption of the Blessed Mother as dogma in 1950.
Who is Pope Pius XII?
This Person gave us The Lord’s Prayer.
Who is Jesus?
This person is truly God and truly Man.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This person was always God but he was not always man. He became man at the Incarnation, and will
remain God and man forever.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This is considered the moment that the Son of God became man?
What is the moment Mary agreed to become His Mother or “ Incarnation?”
They are known as Jesus’ Father and foster father.
Who is God and Saint Joseph?
This miracle of Jesus was doubted by Thomas the Apostle.
What is His Resurrection from the dead.
This term refers to the sufferings of Jesus before His death.
What is the Passion?
This Person is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
Who is Jesus?
This is the feast day on which is celebrated the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
What is Christmas?
She had her first apparition of Our Blessed Mother on February 11, 1858.
Who is Saint Bernadette?
These are the meanings of the words Jesus and Christ.
What are “the Savior” and “Messiah?”
All the apostles were present at this event which occurred 40 days after Christ died.
What is the Ascension?
By order of Pilate, the four letters I.N.R.I. were placed on Christ’s Cross and they stand for this.
What is: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews? or What is: Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum?
These words were used by Christ to describe Himself as a response to those who don’t know how to get
to the Father’s “House.”
What are: “I am the way, the truth, and the life?” (Jn. 14:6).
The Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, true God and true Man.
Who is Jesus Christ?
These wounds of head, heart, hands and feet, inflicted on Our Lord during His passion and death, are
sometimes offered to “victim souls” to make reparation for sin.
What is the stigmata?
At this event God said. “This is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.”
What is the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River?
After Satan tempted Jesus in the desert, these came to attend Christ.
Who are angels?
This mystery teaches that Jesus is truly Divine and Human.
What is the mystery of the Incarnation?
This is the reason for the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross.
What is sin?
These are the words the priest speaks during absolution.
What are the words: “I absolve you from your sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit?”
This is a person “appointed in order to aid the deacon and to minister to the priest.”
What is an acolyte?
A legal term for an accident that occurs without the cause or foreknowledge of man.
What is an Act of God?
On this day we commemorate Christ’s passion and death.
What is Good Friday?
This is the feast day which we celebrate to commemorate Jesus’ visible departure from the world 40
days after Easter.
What is the Feast of the Ascension?
This is imprinted on our soul at Confirmation.
What is a character?
This devotion to the Eucharistic Christ in the Roman Rite consists of Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament in the monstrance, or a pyx, adoration of the faithful, hymns, the blessing where the priest
makes the Sign of the Cross with the Blessed Sacrament over the people, and recitation of Divine
Praises.
What is Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament?
These are the holy days of obligation in the United States.
What are all the Sundays of the year, January lst (the Solemnity of Mary), the Feast of the Ascension
(40 days after Easter), the Feast of the Assumption (August 15th), All Saints Day (November lst), the
Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8th), and Christmas Day (December 25th)? (Canada:
Sundays, Christmas, New Year’s)
This sacramental, consisting of two small pieces of cloth, is fastened by strings and worn around the
neck in front and back.
What is a scapular?
This sacramental reminds us of our Baptism.
What is holy water?
This is the part of the Mass where the priest explains the Word of God.
What is the homily?
This is something done or accepted to make up for sin.
What is penance?
This person acts for Jesus in the sacrament of Penance.
Who is the priest?
This means “releasing,” that is, we are set free (or absolved) from our sins.
What is absolution or when the priest absolves us from our sins?
This is the most joyous season of the Church year.
What is Easter?
The Last Supper was held on this day of the week.
What is Thursday?
Each sacrament has matter and form. These are the four sacraments that use Chrism or Holy Oil as
their matter.
What are: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders, and Extreme Unction (or Anointing of the Sick)?
This is the sacrament of God’s forgiveness.
What is Penance, Reconciliation or Confession?
This man climbed a tree to see Jesus because he was too short.
Who is Zaccheus?
These are the names given the three types of holy oils used in the Church’s worship today.
What are chrism, oil of the sick, and oil of the catechumens?
The place, usually in the center of the sanctuary, in which the Blessed Sacrament is contained.
What is the tabernacle?
This name is given the special vessel for presenting the Eucharistic Host for adoration by the faithful.
What is the Monstrance?
This event marked the beginning of God’s work of salvation in Christ.
What is the Incarnation (or the Annunciation)?
This is considered the birthday of the Church, the day the Holy Spirit was sent to earth.
What is Pentecost?
This is the light that is kept burning above or before ore the tabernacle in which the Blessed Sacrament
is reserved.
What is the sanctuary lamp?
An outward sign instituted by Christ, to give grace.
What is a sacrament?
The introductory rites of a solemn “Novus Ordo” Mass are these four prayers.
What are: 1. Entrance Antiphon - 2. Penitential Rites - 3. Gloria - 4. Opening Prayer?
“Amen” in Hebrew means this.
What is: “So be it?”
At the beginning of the Gospel, the priest and the congregation trace this symbol on their forehead, lips
and breast.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
This is the part of the Mass when the priest teaches and talks about the Readings and the Gospel.
What is the homily (or sermon)?
In the offertory of a Solemn Mass, the priest incenses these with a Sign of the Cross.
What is the bread and wine?
This the English translation of the Latin words, “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.”
What is “Holy, Holy Holy?”
This is the most solemn moment of the Mass.
What is the consecration?
This is the part of the Mass which Christ instituted at the Last Supper.
What is the consecration?
This is the supreme act of worship in the Church of Christ.
What is the Mass?
This sweet odour, along with the chanting of the Mass represents prayers rising to God.
What is incense?
This is what “Mea Culpa,” means on English.
What is “through my Fault?”
Jesus asked St. Peter this many times, “Simon, son of John doest thou love Me?”
What is three times?
These are the matter and form of the sacrament of Baptism.
What are: 1. Matter (pouring) - 2. Form (“I Baptize you in the Name of the Father and of the Son and
of Holy Spirit?”)
These are a record of what Jesus wants us to believe and do in order to be saved and reach Heaven as
well as an account of how, out of great Love He died for us.
What are the Gospels?
Instituted by Christ and administered by His Church, these are the ordinary means of obtaining grace.
What are sacraments?
A plenary indulgence is attached to this special blessing.
What is an Apostolic blessing or Papal blessing?
A day preceding certain feasts (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost). It is a day of preparation, and
sometimes involves some penance.
What is a vigil?
This is the moment of forgiveness in the sacrament of Reconciliation. (Penance)
What is absolution?
This is the oil used in the sacrament of Holy Orders.
What is chrism?
This is recommended to help a person prepare for confession.
What is the examination of conscience?
This is the recommended age for a child to receive First Holy Communion.
What is the age of reason? (around 7 years of age).
This is the only day in the Church’s year on which Mass is not offered.
What is Good Friday?
This is the official language of the traditional Roman Rite Mass.
What is Latin?
A short rectangular piece of white cloth, worn beneath the alb to cover the shoulders with two ends
tied at the waist of the priest.
What is the amice?
This is a table which has been specially dedicated to God for the offering of sacrifice.
What is an altar?
They are two small vessels that contain the water and wine to be used at Mass.
What are the cruets?
This is the light that is kept burning near the tabernacle in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved.
What is the sanctuary lamp?
Jesus is kept in this place, so we can visit Him in the church.
What is the tabernacle?
This is a sacrifice and a sacrament.
What is the Holy Eucharist?
This is a sacred cup in which the wine becomes the true Blood of Christ at the consecration.
What is the chalice?
St. Thomas Aquinas spoke of these as the instruments God uses in causing in us or communicating to
us the graces of salvation.
What are the sacraments?
Through this sacrament a baptized person is sealed with the Holy Spirit.
What is Confirmation?
This sacrament brings us intimately close to Jesus.
What is Holy Communion?
This type of grace is increased in our soul after Confirmation.
What is sanctifying grace?
This sacrament completes the gift of the Holy Spirit given to us in Baptism.
What is the sacrament of Confirmation?
This type of grace is increased in our soul after Confirmation.
What is sanctifying grace?
This is the first time that the “profession of faith” is made.
What is during Baptism?
This word describes God’s unlimited perfection.
What is infinite?
This is the mystery of the Blessed Trinity.
What is one God in Three Divine Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
This is something that takes place outside of the ordinary working of nature’s laws - something only
God can do.
What is a miracle?
These are some other names for the Holy Spirit.
Who is: Spirit of God, Gift of God, Spirit of Truth, Giver of Life, and the Paraclete? (Give two)
Because Adam and Eve sinned against God, they lost this gift.
What is sanctifying grace or the right to Heaven?
He is the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
This is a person who does not believe in the One True God.
What is a pagan or atheist?
This is the only attribute of God named in the Creed.
What is Almighty?
This gift of the Holy Spirit is God’s help to know when our soul (a soul) is in danger of sin.
What is counsel?
This is the meaning of “Pater Noster.”
What is “Our Father?”
The human soul shares in the dignity of this image.
What is the image of God?
We are created in His image and likeness.
Who is God?
Yahweh is the name used for this Being.
Who is God?
This is the Third Person in the Blessed Trinity.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
This is the only attribute of God named in the Creed.
What is Almighty?
He is everywhere.
Who is God?
In our Catholic belief, we acknowledge Jesus to be both God and this.
What is Man?
This is an extraordinary act of God.
What is a miracle?
This Person in the Holy Trinity is usually listed first.
Who is God the Father?
This is the place where one can see God face to face.
What is Heaven?
This son of the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth was born a half year before Jesus Christ.
Who is Saint John the Baptist?
This is a representation in Christian art of a circle of gold or light surrounding the head of a saint.
What is a halo?
He is the patron saint of Russia.
Who is St. Nicholas?
She greeted Mary as “Mother of my Lord.”
Who is Saint Elizabeth?
This female saint was at the foot of the cross with Mary.
Who is Saint Mary Magdalene?
This saint’s father beheaded her for being secretly baptized. After her death fire came from heaven and
consumed her father.
Who is Saint Barbara?
He is the patron saint of policemen.
Who is St. Michael?
He is the patron saint of firemen.
Who is St. Florian?
She is the patron saint of young girls.
Who is St. Agnes?
This is the patron saint of messengers.
Who is St. Gabriel the Archangel?
This man was called the precursor of Christ.
Who is St. John the Baptist?
These were the parents of Our Blessed Mother.
Who is St. Ann and St. Joachim?
These were the names of the parents of St. John the Baptist.
Who is St. Elizabeth and St. Zachary?
She helped establish the first parochial school in the United States
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
This man said “Behold the Lamb of God.”
Who is St. John the Baptist?
She greeted Mary as “Mother of my Lord.”
Who is Saint Elizabeth?
He is the patron saint of desperate causes.
Who is Saint Jude?
This saint’s feast day is February 14th.
Who is Saint Valentine? Who are Sts. Cyril and Methodius? (also acceptable).
After being given 30 pieces of silver for Jesus’ betrayal, he hanged himself.
Who is Judas Iscariot?
This Old Testament figure fooled his aged father into thinking he was a first-born son
Who is Jacob?
As a baby, he was put in the bulrushes
Who is Moses?
This modern saint, who died of tuberculosis, is known for her humility, simplicity, piety and patience
in the Carmelite Order.
Who is St. Thérèse of Lisieux or “The Little Flower?”
The band of men chosen by Christ to be His companions during His public life.
Who are the apostles?
This inspired book has mentioned the angels over 300 times.
What is the Bible?
This man was excluded from the Promised Land because of his lack of confidence at the “Waters of
Contradiction.” (Num. 20:12-13).
Who is Moses?
This man led the Israelites into battle when they conquered the city of Jericho.
Who is Josue?
God promised this man that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Who is Abraham?
This was the mountain upon which God spoke from the burning bush and commanded Moses to go
lead the Israelites to freedom.
What is Mt. Sinai (or Horeb)?
This is what Christ said we must do if we are to be His disciples.
What is deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him?
He devoted his life to caring for the poor and unfortunate of Lima, and he was known as the “Saint of
Universal Brotherhood.” He was a Dominican lay brother.
Who is St. Martin de Porres?
This saint was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and was the founder of the
Knights of the Immaculate One.
Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe?
This is a title given to Mary after her appearance to Saint Juan Diego in what is known today as
Mexico.
Who is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
Of these three totals, this most closely approximates the number of Catholics in the world: 2 billion, 1
billion, 500 million.
What is 1 billion?
He was the apostle of the Indies and of Japan.
Who is St. Francis Xavier?
He alone of the apostles remained faithful to Christ during his Passion, and Christ entrusted to him the
care of His Mother.
Who is St. John the Evangelist?
This patron saint of South America was the first American saint to be canonized.
Who is St. Rose of Lima?
According to tradition, this is the way Peter died.
What is: he was crucified upside down?
This modern Carmelite saint, who died of tuberculosis, is known for her humility, simplicity, piety and
patience.
Who is St. Teresa of Lisieux, or the Little Flower?
This is the meaning of the name Michael.
What is “Who is like God?”
This is how old Abraham was when Isaac was born.
What is 100 years?
Believed to have the privilege of bilocation, this 20th century Italian priest also had Christ’s stigmata.
Who is Saint Padre Pio?
Angels came to him and gave him Holy Communion when no priest was available.
Who is St. Stanislaus?
She was the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Who is St. Anne?
This name meaning “Who is like God?” refers to a battle between the fallen angels, Satan and his
followers, and the angels who were faithful.
Who is Michael?
In 258 A.D. this boy saint, while carrying the Eucharist to condemned Christians was stoned because
he would not reveal the Eucharist to some boys who were taunting him.
Who is St. Tarcisius?
Kinsman of Jesus, he was one of the 12 apostles and a martyr. He is patron of the impossible.
Who is St. Jude?
Deacon of the Church of Rome, the Romans believed him to be church treasurer. After his capture and
roasting on their fire, he jokingly said, “Turn me over, for I think I’m done on that side.”
Who is St. Lawrence?
Captured by pirates as a boy and sold, he escaped and returned later to convert the country. He became
the apostle of Ireland.
Who is St. Patrick?
He was crucified on an X-shaped cross and was one of the apostles.
Who is St. Andrew?
Imprisoned in a tower by her father, she was converted by a singing priest. While being martyred,
tradition says the soldiers saw angels coming to carry her soul to Heaven.
Who is St. Barbara?
She was married to the first Catholic king of France, named Clovis.
Who is St. Clotilde?
A Society which today helps the poor is named after this saint who spent his life helping the poor.
Who is St. Vincent de Paul?
This Hungarian saint was loved by the poor. One day according to tradition, while taking food to the
poor, she was stopped and flowers fell out of her cloak.
Who is St. Elizabeth of Hungary?
This saint worked among the galley slaves of the West Indies.
Who is St. Peter Claver?
Patron of the cancer-stricken, he physically attacked a visiting priest before his conversion. He is said
to have been cured of a cancerous sore by Jesus Himself.
Who is St. Peregrine?
A victim soul for God’s divine justice, this young Italian woman suffered the agonies of Christ’s
passion and when she died, became a jewel in Christ’s crown.
Who is St. Gemma Galgani?
This Bishop of Antioch was also a disciple of St. John the Apostle.
Who is St. Ignatius of Antioch?
In the sixth century this Italian monk wrote a Holy Rule for the monastic way of life.
Who is St. Benedict?
This saint made the first manger scene for Christmas.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
As brother and sister who died as children, they were both declared venerable on May 1990. Along
with their cousin, they witnessed six apparitions of our Blessed Mother in Fatima.
Who are Venerable Francisco and Venerable Jacinta?
This saint was a Roman soldier who was put into prison for refusing to fight. To prove he was not a
coward he stood in the front line of a battle field with a cross. He also shared his cloak with a beggar.
Who is St. Martin of Tours?
These saints are the grandparents of Jesus.
Who are St. Ann and St. Joachim?
This saint claimed that he was married to “Lady Poverty”.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This saint and Archangel is represented by the Scales of Justice.
Who is St. Michael?
