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Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church Knights of the Altar in the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary Personal Interview & Examination in the Catholic Faith Which two basic principals are at the The practice of people of different cultures center of Catholic social teaching? expressing their Catholic faith in a variety of ways using music, art, language and A) rationalism and ecumenism celebration is: B) the common good and the dignity of the human person A) a means by which people experience God C) accepting current cultural practices and in their own place and way of life obeying authority B) discouraged by the church which requires D) personal growth and economic prosperity that we all worship in exactly the same way C) only acceptable if the pope gives special What is necessary for full initiation into permission or dispensation the Church? D) substituting ways of expressing faith apart from those of the Bible and early Church A) regular attendance at Mass and support of practices that people do not like the Church B) dying and going to heaven In the Old Testament, the promise of love C) registration and involvement in a parish and partnership that God made with Moses D) Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist and his people is called: A) prayer What are sacramentals? B) community C) prophecy A) Sacramentals give the grace of the Holy D) covenant Spirit in the same way that celebration of the sacraments does B) Sacramentals are special prayers the priest According to the Catechism of the Catholic says to administer the sacraments Faith, what is the “communion of saints?” C) Sacramentals are objects, actions and blessings that help us grow in holiness A) the union of believers, living and dead, who D) Sacramentals celebrate the feasts of a form one body in Christ particular culture B) those who have gone before us and are in heaven C) those Catholics who receive Communion at As Catholics, we hold Mary in special honor Mass because she: D) those the church has canonized as saints A) encouraged Jesus to perform his first miracle What is the catechumenate? B) was the wife of St. Joseph C) is the Mother of God A) the process of initiating people into the D) served the poor Church B) the process by which saints are chosen C) the process of priestly formation D) the process of blessing children What is the color of the liturgical season of Jesus Christ came to offer salvation to: “ordinary time?” A) only good people A) red B) only those who are baptized B) white C) just Roman Catholics C) purple D) all people of the world D) green The most important act of worship of the According to Catholic teaching, when does Catholic community is the: life begin? A) Rite of Reconciliation A) at birth B) Covenant B) at the time of the first trimester C) Rosary C) at conception D) Mass D) at the time when the child can survive outside of the womb The Paschal Mystery refers to: What do we mean when we say the Trinity A) what happens after death is three persons in one God? B) the three persons in one God C) Jesus’ birth, baptism and temptation in A) each person is a different God the desert B) Father, Son and Holy Spirit represent three D) Jesus’ suffering, death, resurrection and Gods ascension C) Each person of the Trinity is really and fully God D) The Father is more important than the Son What are Catholics obliged to do at least and the Holy Spirit once a year? A) receive Holy Communion in the Easter Why do we belong to a parish community? season B) support the Church A) church membership guarantees us a place C) visit the sick with God in Heaven D) participate in a Seder meal B) church membership is inherited from our family and stays with us for life C) church membership gives us permission to What event in Jesus Christ’s life confirms use church and parish facilities for all that he taught about himself and the personal use kingdom of God? D) church membership gives us an opportunity to worship God in community A) Transfiguration and serve others B) Resurrection C) Crucifixion D) Incarnation What do we call the Church’s office which teaches on matters of faith and morals? To care for the world and all that is in it A) Hierarchy means: B) Holy Orders C) Magisterium A) using it any way we want to D) Parish Council B) respecting and protecting it C) buying as much as possible D) enjoying it without being concerned about it When we speak of following one’s Which is the most recently held conscience, “conscience” means: Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church? A) a person’s feeling of guilt B) the Ten Commandments A) Vatican II C) the opposite of unconscious B) Council of Trent D) a person’s ability to judge what is right and C) United States Catholic Conference of what is wrong Bishops D) Council of Jerusalem Which doctrine refers to the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist? What does “catholic” mean? A) Transubstantiation A) saintly B) Transfiguration B) Roman C) Lay Investiture C) Primary D) Incarnation D) Universal Who has the highest teaching authority in What do we call beliefs and practices in the the Church? Church that are passed down from one generation to the next under the guidance A) religion teachers of the Holy Spirit? B) pastors and other priests C) the pope united with the bishops A) ritual D) experts in theology B) sacraments C) Tradition D) Roman Missal The movement toward unity among Christians and Christian churches is called: According to the Catholic Church, what are A) preaching foundations for living the moral life? B) conversion C) redemption A) following the laws of your country D) ecumenism B) that which we learn from parables and proverbs C) that which a majority of the people in a Who is the saint from the 1200’s whose given society have determined as morally scholastic work Summa Theologiae good organized and clarified thinking on many D) the moral law, God’s grace and the voice of religious topics? a well-formed conscience A) Bonaventure B) Thomas Aquinas Who has the responsibility to be actively C) Theresa of Avila involved in the life of the parish? D) Catherine of Siena A) primarily the pastor and staff B) all members by virtue of their baptism What is the summary of the essential C) parish members educated in church beliefs of our faith? teachings D) only adult members of the parish A) the Hail Mary community B) the Nicene Creed C) precepts of the Church D) acts of faith, hope and love When receiving the gifts of the Holy Spirit, What is the liturgical year? which of the following “gifts” can we expect to receive? A) The school calendar and the schedule for most parish religious education programs A) sinlessness and wealth B) Celebration of the mysteries of Jesus B) liberation and acceptance Christ’s life throughout the year C) wisdom and courage C) The period from Ash Wednesday to Easter D) assurance and earthly security D) A special year of prayer The Gospels were written: Which best describes the purpose of a sacramental? A) some years after the Resurrection in the context of a community of faith A) to protect the faithful from evil B) in the third and fourth centuries by later B) to help us grow in faith and holiness believers C) to help us realize our wishes and dreams C) as eye-witness accounts by reporters D) to substitute for sacraments in the D) while Jesus was alive absence of a priest Who was responsible for ending the What does it mean that the Bible is the persecution of Christians? inspired word of God? A) Nero A) reading the Bible inspires us to lead holy B) Diocletian lives C) Constantine B) the authors were people of faith whose D) Charlemagne writing was guided by the Holy Spirit C) the Bible provides historically accurate On the Feast of the Immaculate accounts of the actions of God’s people Conception, the Church celebrates: D) every word of the Bible was dictated by God to human authors who acted as A) the birth of Jesus Christ scribes B) Mary’s virginity C) Jesus Christ’s freedom from all sin D) Mary’s freedom from original sin What is a virtue? A) doing a good deed What does true freedom mean? B) doing what comes naturally to us C) an official Church law A) refusing to praise or blame other’s actions D) a habit or pattern of doing good B) deciding for one’s self what is good and evil C) having my way in all situations of life D) choosing what is good and just When did the formation of the New Testament occur? Why does the Church canonize people as A) during the Age of Enlightenment saints? B) before the time of Jesus C) during the Apostolic Age A) to acknowledge that only a few people are D) during the Reformation holy B) to indicate that these are the holy people in Heaven C) to list the names of people who have never sinned D) to recognize personal holiness and provide role models for others What does the story of Adam and Eve teach What is the type of prayer in which people us about the human condition? pray for others? A) we have the capacity to sin A) adoration B) we are fundamentally evil B) meditation C) we are saved through Jesus Christ C) thanksgiving D) we are punished by God for our mistakes D) intercession Which of the following means Which is necessary for a Church “thanksgiving?” annulment? A) blessing A) at the time of the marriage, one party B) eucharist lacked the capacity to enter a sacramental C) benediction union D) contemplation B) the couple no longer loves one another C) one member of the couple has been The four Gospel writers are called the: unfaithful D) the marriage has broken down and there is A) evangelists no possibility of restoring the marriage