RCC Senior Level - Bonus Flashcards
According to the apocryphal gospel of James, this person lived in the Holy of Holies until the age of 12.
Who is Mary?
This Greek word, referring to Mary, means “full of grace.”
What is kecharitomenne?
Mary is an archetype of this entity.
What is the Church?
This privilege of Mary refers to her intercessory co-operation in the bestowal of graces.
What is mediatrix?
This is the year when the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was defined.
What is 1854?
This non-canonical book, chronicles the birth and childhood of Mary.
What is the Protoevangelium of James?
Christ taught that he would do this if he be lifted up.
What is “draw all men to myself”?
According to St. Athanasius, this is the reason why God became man.
What is so that “man may become God”?
Icthus, the Greek word for “fish”, is an acronym for this.
What is “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour”?
This is the reason Jesus descended into Hades.
What is “to free the just who had already died”.
The 3 chief effects of grace received in the sacrament of Matrimony.
What are: 1. Love faithfully - 2. Bear faults patiently - 3 Bring up children properly?
This name is given to the daily Mass offered publicly in religious communities.
What is a conventual Mass?
This term is given to the calling down of the Holy Spirit upon the Holy Gifts before the Consecration.
What is epiclesis?
This antiphon is sung in place of the Angelus during the Easter season.
What is the “Regina caeli?”
This is the only Greek prayer used in the ordinary of Latin Rite
What is the “Kyrie”?
In this rite, used by most Lebanese Catholics, the priest speaks the words of consecration in Aramaic.
What is the Marionite Rite?
This Christmas carol compares heaven to a dance, to which God invites us as a lover invites his beloved
What is “Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day”?
According to popular history, no written copies of this piece were allowed to circulate outside of the
Vatican, but the monopoly was ended when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote out the score from
memory after hearing it only once.
What is Allegri’s Miserere?
According to popular history, this piece, dedicated to a pope who reigned briefly in 1555, is credited
with saving sacred polyphony from being abolished at the Council of Trent.
What is Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli?
This Italian Renaissance composer, 1525-1594, wrote 104 polyphonic masses.
Who is Giovanni Palestrina?
This French Benedictine monastery revived the study and practice of Gregorian chant in the 19th
century.
What is the monastery of St-Pierre de Solesmes?
This hymn, also known as the Paschal Proemium, is sung during the first part of the Easter vigil.
What is the Exsultet?
This hymn is sung during the procession to the altar of repose after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on
Holy Thursday.
What is the “Pange lingua” by St. Thomas Aquinas?
This hymn, whose title is translated “Day of Wrath,” is sung during a Requiem Mass.
What is the “Dies irae”?
This hymn of thanksgiving is sometimes sung at the end of Matins in the Office of Readings.
What is the Te Deum?
According to the Psalmist, this is what we ought to “sing unto the the Lord”.
What is “a new song”?
Many popular modern hymns such as “Be Not Afraid” and “Blest be the Lord” were composed by this
group of mid-West American priests for the post-conciliar liturgy.
Who are the Saint Louis Jesuits?
This music, sung during the veneration of the cross on Good Friday, contrasts the blessings God has
given the Hebrews with their treatment of Jesus.
What are the Reproaches (or, Improperia)?
Before the development of major and minor keys, music, such as Gregorian chant, was written in this
system.
What are the eight modes (or, medieval modes)?
The names of notes of the musical scale, do re mi fa sol la ti do, were originally taken from the first
syllables of the 8 verses of this hymn.
What is “Ut queant laxis”?
The style of singing used in the Milanese liturgy is named after this 4th century bishop of Milan.
Who is St. Ambrose?
This bishop of Rome (reign 590-604) is credited with establishing the repetoire of chants used in the
Roman liturgy.
Who is Gregory I?
This French composer, 1902-1985, wrote a polyphonic Requiem and four motets based on the
Gregorian melodies.
Who is Maurice Duruflé?
This carol for the Feast of the Nativity is mentioned in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales by
Geoffrey Chaucer.
What is “Quem pastores”? (or, Kwempas carol)
This renowned piece was written by a prolific German Lutheran composer, who presented it in 1749 to
Friedrich August II, the Catholic king of Poland.
What is J. S. Bach’s Mass in B minor?
The Missa “Pange lingua,” a polyphonic mass which is based on the melody of the chant composed by
St. Thomas, was written by this Flemish Renaissance composer.
Who is Josquin Des Pres?
This medieval song for the feast of the Annunciation was written by Philip the Chancellor, of the
University of Paris.
What is “Angelus ad virginem” (or, Gabriel from heaven came)?
This is the sequence for Easter.
What is Victimae paschali laudes?
This is another name for the lectern from which the scriptures are proclaimed.
What is the ambo?
This is the name given to the ceremony performed just before the principal Sunday Mass, wherein the
priest sprinkles the congregation with holy water.
What is aperges?
This rite is most commonly used in the country of Egpyt.
What is Coptic Rite?
The liturgical washing of feet is typically performed on this day of the liturgical calendar.
What is Holy Thursday?
This object used at the altar represents Veronica’s veil which was used to wipe the face of our Lord.
What is the maniple?
This object used at the altar represents the stone which was rolled in front of the entrance of Jesus’
tomb.
What is the pall?
“Dominus vobiscum” is the Latin phrase for this.
What is “The Lord be with you”?
“Ecce Agnus Dei” is the Latin phrase that means this.
What is “Behold the Lamb of God”?
This is the Latin equivalent of “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
What is “In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti”?
This petitional prayer was adopted into the Roman Rite from the Greek liturgy around the fifth
century, but was kept in its original Greek.
What is the “Kyrie”?
In The Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul used this metaphor to descibe God, so what we may withstand
the temptations of Satan.
What is “armour”?
This is the primary and formal object of God’s knowledge.
What is Himself? (also: What is God?)
This is the notion of God which is proved in the first way of St. Thomas Aquinas.
What is the first mover?
This is the notion of God which is proved in the second way of St. Thomas Aquinas.
What is the uncaused cause?
This is the notion of God proved in the third way of St. Thomas Aquinas.
What is necessary being?
This is literal meaning of the word “Paraclete”?
What is “consoler”?
This missionary priest, sent to Peru in the late 1500s, is called the “Wonder Worker of the New World.”
Who is Fr. Francis Solano?
Humor was the trademark of this saint who always preached that we should be joyful.
Who is St. Philip Neri?
This is the meaning of the Greek word “martyr.”
What is”one who bears witness?”
This saint and scholastic theologian is called the “seraphic doctor.”
Who is St. Bonaventure?
This term refers to the writing of the lives of the saints or books about the saints.
What is hagiography?
He is the last canonized pope?
Who is St. Pius X?
This saint wrote the words, “Too late have I loved you, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!”
Who is St. Augustine?
This saint and missionary to the Huron natives, adapted a traditional French folk song into the hymn
known as the “Huron Carol”.
Who is St. Jean de Brebeuf?
St. Augustin referred to this as “every action done for the purpose of clinging to God in communion of
holiness.”
What is sacrifice?
This was the motto of Pope St. Pius X.
What is “To restore all things in Christ?”
This comtemplative community was formed by St. Bruno of Cologne, when he retreated with six
others to the Alps of Dauphiné.
Who are the Carthusians?
This saint and martyr, when confronted with the question “Do you think that by dying you will enter
this heaven you talk about?” replied, “I do not think; I know!”
Who is St. Justin?
This 2nd century saint wrote in one of his two Apologies: “We call this food Eucharist; and no one else
is permitted to partake of it, except one who has been washed in the baptism which is for the remission
of sins and for regeneration.”
Who is St. Justin?
This saint proclaimed, “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”
Who is St. Paul?
This English deacon, having taken the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging Elizabeth as head of the
church in England, later became a Jesuit priest, only to become executed under the charge of treason.
Who is St. Edmund Campion?
This Irish saint lived as an anchorite in France, and is the patron saint of gardeners.
Who is St. Fiacre (Fiachra)?
This third-century Roman martyr is the patron saint of actors.
Who is St. Genesius?
“The Triple Way”, a book about approaching God through prayer, was written by this doctor of the
Church.
Who is St. Bonaventure?
This martyr shares her feast day with the Nativity of our Lord, and is commemorated in the Roman
Canon (Eucharistic prayer 1).
Who is St. Anastasia?
She is the patron saint of the salt mines.
Who is Saint Kinga?
This saint was given the a name meaning “golden-mouthed” because of his exceptional orations.
Who is Saint John Chrysostom?
This 12th century saint has the reputation for being the first German botanist, zoologist and physician,
as well as having written great works of music and poetry.
Who is St. Hildegard of Bingen?
He became the first monk to take the throne of Peter?
Who is Pope St. Gregory the Great?
This saint invented the Armenian alphabet and translated the Bible and other writing into Armenian.
Who is St. Mesrop?
According to St. Irenaeus, this is the “Glory of God”.
What is “man fully alive”?
This play by T.S. Eliot tells the story of St. Thomas à Becket.
What is “Murder in the Cathedral”?
This former Church of England cleric became a Catholic while writing his Essay on the Development
of Christian Doctrine, and was declared venerable.
Who is John Henry Cardinal Newman?
She founded the Ursulines order.
Who is Saint Angela Merici?
According to St. Teresa of Lisieux, this type of prayer is like “a close sharing between friends”.
What is contemplative prayer?
According to St. Augustine this is a greater work than creation itself.
What is justification of the wicked?
This great pope is famous for his tome, which condemned the monophysite heresy at the Council of
Chalcedon.
Who is Pope St. Leo the Great?
This order counts among its members, Sts. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Vincent Ferrer.
What is the Dominican Order or Order of Preachers?
These twins were martyred during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. Their names are included in
the Roman Canon.
Who are Sts. Cosmas and Damian?
St. Verno, born in Cologne, Germany, is the founder of this complemplative order.
What are the Carthusians?
This great bishop and doctor of the Church was elected bishop while still a catechumen and yet
unbaptized.
Who is St. Ambrose?
This great Spanish saint, preached penance for sin and preparation for the last judgement. During his
life he raised 40 persons from the dead and cured thousands of the blind, the lame, the deaf and the
dumb.
Who is St. Vincent Ferrer?
This doctor of the Church is historically closest to our times.
Who is St. Therese of Lisieux?
This saint invented the alphabet used today in Russia and the Ukraine.
Who is St. Cyril?
The liturgy used in the Byzantine Rite, originated with this saint.
Who is St. John Chrysostom?
This woman had eight children, among them St. Catherine of Sweden.
Who is St. Bridget (or Birgitta) of Sweden?
This saint saved the life of a child who was choking on a fishbone.
Who is St. Blaise?
This saint, an officer in the Roman Army, was put to death with arrows.
Who is St. Sebastian?
This saint is the patron of Catholic Youth.
Who St. Aloysius Gonzaga?
This saint is the patroness of television.
Who is St. Clare?
Used to refer to a Bishop’s obligatory visit to Rome every five years.
What is Ad Limina?
A devotional book of practical spirituality based on the life of Christ. Authorship is attributed to
Thomas a Kempis.
What is Imitation of Christ?
This name of a personal prelature of the Church, means “Work of God.”
What is “Opus Dei?”
This is used to signal the election of a new pope to the faithful waiting outside.
What is white smoke?
This is the number of Ecumenical Councils of the the early church, upon which the Eastern and
Western Churches agree.
What is seven?
Pope John Paul II added this symbol to his papal coat of arms to signify his Marian devotion.
What is the letter “M”?
This object, inscribed with a picture of St. Peter fishing, is ceremonially broken at a pope’s death.
What is the papal ring?
This is the literal meaning of the Latin word “pastor”.
What is “shepherd”?
This is the Latin title of the papal encyclical on the Dignity of Women.
What is “Mulieris Dignitatem”?
This is the Latin title of the Apostolic constitution on the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church in 1992.
What is “Fidei depositum”?
This is the year of the first papal visit to Canada
What is 1984?
This religious order of priests was erected by Pope John Paul II in 1988 and was granted exclusive use
of the liturgical books of 1962.
What is the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter? (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri)
This famous French monastery, named after an archangel, is surrounded by water at high tide.
What is Mont St-Michel? (or St. Michaelis in periculo maris)
This is the meaning of the Latin word “Ecclesia”.
What is “church”?
This is the name given to the officials who assist the Pope with the governance of the Church.
What is the Roman Curia?
This is a canonical act by which a cleric is attached to a diocese or a religious community and
subjected to the authority of its ordinary.
What is incardination?
This treaty between the Church and Italy established the Vatican as a sovereign state.
What is the Lateran Pact of 1929?
The number of appointed cardinals is not to exceed this number.
What is seventy?
This is a formal excommunication and solemn condemnation of a teaching or a position which
obstinately contradicts Catholic faith and doctrine.
What is “Anathema?”
This is the term for those books of the bible which are accepted as authentic by both Catholics and
Protestants.
What is protocanonical?
This is reply of Jesus to the disciples when they were unable to cast out a demon.
What is “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.” Luke 9:25-29
This is the name given to the first Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), made at
Alexandria in the third century B.C., traditionally by 70 translators.
What is the Septuagint?
In this book of the Old Testament, God proclaimed “I the Lord do not change.”
What is the book of Malachai?
In the book of Genesis, he walked with God and was seen no more?
Who is Enoch?