RCC Senior Level Flashcards
This is a kind of superior veneration given to Our Lady, Mary alone.
What is Hyperdulia?
The term used to describe the union of Jesus’ Divine nature and Human nature.
What is meant by the hypostatic union?
This act removes the penalties imposed by the Church and reconciles the penitent with the Church.
What is absolution from censures?
This is a small, close-fitting skull-cap worn by bishops, abbots, and other prelates.
What is a Zucchetto?
This is a stiff square cap having three or four projecting “leaves” or prominences rising from the ridges
of its top, and usually having a pompom at its center, worn by cardinals, bishops, and other clerics.
What is a biretta?
This is the rite performed by a priest whereby evil spirits are driven out of a person’s body in the name
of Christ.
What is exorcism?
These are holy things or actions with which the Church asks God to grant us favors, especially spiritual
ones.
What are sacramentals?
This Augustinian monk, on All Saints Eve, 1517, nailed 95 theses on the door of a chapel, expressing
his disbelief in indulgences, among other things.
Who is Martin Luther?
This is the Great Saint of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Bishop of Milan.
Who is Charles Borromeo?
He acts “in persona Christi.”
Who is the priest?
These words in Latin mean “Behold the man.”
What are “Ecce Homo?”
This is the reception of Holy Communion when it is given in a public or private manner to someone in
danger of death, during an illness, or to soldiers going into battle.
What is viaticum?
This is the public announcement of an impending marriage.
What are the banns of matrimony?
The term lavabo refers to this part of the Latin Mass.
What is the Ceremony of Purification or Washing of the Priest’s Hands?
This is a vessel or device for sprinkling holy water.
What is an aspergillium?
These are the names of 6 Saints (or group of Saints) , which appear in the first part of the canon of the
Mass.
Who are: 1. Blessed Virgin Mary - 2. The twelve apostles - 3. Five early popes - 4 Bishop Cyprian - 5,
Deacon Lawrence - 6. Five other saints who are laymen? (all are martyrs except the Blessed Mother
and the Apostle: St. John the Evangelist).
A sign of priestly office, worn in administration of the sacraments, it is a narrow strip of cloth of a
liturgical color worn over the shoulders.
What is the stole?
Wide band of cloth worn over the shoulders for carrying the sacred vessels or Blessed Sacrament.
What is the humeral veil?
In the Byzantine Rite, this is the name of the screen that separates the congregation from the altar.
What is an Iconostasis?
This part of the Mass includes the writings of the prophets that is, the Old Testament,” and “the
memoirs of the Apostles” (their Letters and Gospels), the homily and the intercessions.
What is the Liturgy of the Word?
This is the clear and immediate vision and experience of God enjoyed by the angels and saints in
heaven.
What is the beatific vision?
This heretical teaching of the Lutherans maintains that the substance of bread and wine exist together
with the substance of the body and blood of Christ after consecration. This is in direct opposition to
the doctrinal teaching of transubstantiation.
What is consubstantiation?
He is the patron saint of scientists.
Who is St. Albert the Great?
This is the patron saint of comedians.
Who is St. Vitus?