laity - Answer all the faithful with the exception of those in holy orders or consecrated
life, priests are ordained for sacred ministry
religious orders - Answer live the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and
obedience in community
ergos - Answer work
leiton - Answer of the people
purple - Answer Color of Advent and Lent
First Sunday of Advent - Answer When the liturgical year begins
Christmas season - Answer begins with the vigil of Christmas and continues to the feast
of the baptism of the Lord
epiphany - Answer the following Sunday after Christmas which features the public
manifestation of christ to the nations symbolized by the magi
Baptism of the Lord - Answer when the Christmas season ends
white - Answer color of Christmas season vestments
Ash Wednesday - Answer when lent begins
40 days - Answer Lent lasts for
lent - Answer during --- Jesus mirrors 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert to
prepare for his public ministry
easter tridiuum - Answer Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday
Holy Thursday - Answer Jesus instituted the priesthood and the Eucharist as the
memorial of his suffering and death
good Friday - Answer when Jesus died for us
this is the only day a year with no mass
easter vigil - Answer holiest night of the year - return of our faith
white - Answer color of easter vestments
50 - Answer easter lasts -- days until pentecost
green - Answer color to signify hope
, Christ in His Church 5/17
green - Answer color worn during ordinary time
pentecost - Answer when easter season ends
sacraments - Answer efficacious signs of grace because it dispenses the grace it
signifies
efficacious - Answer provides the desired effect
christ - Answer entities all sacraments
mysterion - Answer A sign of something sacred or hidden
sacramentum - Answer the latin word for oath and it referred to the ceremony in which a
recruit was accepted into the roman army
sign - Answer sintering we car hear or see which tells us of something else which we
cannot see or hear at that moment- points to something else
ex opre operato - Answer "from the very work"
Grace - Answer a share in God's life and spiritual power
sacrament - Answer each --- confers a share in God's own life
baptism - Answer removes original sin and all personal sin
eucharist - Answer the most important sacrament
baptism - Answer where we are born again of water and the Holy Spirit
bishop - Answer the usual minister of confirmation
important parts of confirmation - Answer - laying on of hands
- "be sealed with the Holy Spirit"
holy chrism - Answer a mixture of olive oil and balm, blessed by the bishop on Holy
Thursday
holy chrism - Answer symbolizes strength of soul
eucharist - Answer contains the whole Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
Real Presence - Answer the doctrine that explains Jesus presence in the eucharist