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What is Green?
This is the color to signify Ordinary TIme throughout the Church Year.
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What are sacramentals?
Special blessings, actions, and objects that help us continue in the grace received in the sacraments.
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What is the Holy Spirit?
Wind, Fire, and a dove are symbols of this person of the Trinity.
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Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This saint is remembered for considering all of creation his brothers and sisters, even preaching to the birds.
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What is kneeling?
A posture by which we demonstrate humility and reverence before God.
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What is Purple?
This color signifies both the royalty of Christ and the penitential season.
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What are Padrinos/Godparents?
In the Latino Church these people serve as co-parents at baptism and following by offering advice and love as a child grows in the faith.
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What is the Bible?
Holy writings found in the Old Testament and New Testament in which God speaks to us in human words.
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Who is Saint Bernadette?
This saint discovered a place of healing in a spring of water in Lourdes, France.
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What is prostrate?
Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward.
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What is Advent?
A wreath of three purple and one pink candle is often used to mark each of the four Sundays included in this Liturgical season at the beginning of the Church year.
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What is anointing?
The action of applying oil to someone as a sign of God's blessing.
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What is a mystery?
Something about which we can look for clues, but in the faith of the Church it is something that is beyond our ability to understand, like the Trinity.
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Who is Carlo Acutis?
This Blessed servant of God loved both the Eucharist and the internet and combined these loves to do his great work.
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What is a Monstrance?
The special container in which the Consecrated Host can be displayed for Adoration.
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What is white and gold?
These two colors signify the purity and the glory of God.
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What is Confirmation?
A sacrament in which we are sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
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What is the soul?
The invisible spiritual reality within us that most reflects the image of God in which we are made.
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Who is Saint John Neumann?
This saint even though he was the superior of the house would get up first in the morning to light the coal fire to heat the house for his religious brothers.
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What is Real Presence?
The belief that Jesus Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, Body, Blood, soul and divinity.
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What is Red?
This color signifies both the power of the Holy Spirit and the blood of the martyrs including Christ's own sacrifice.
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What is laying on of hands?
A sign of God's blessing made by extending hands out and forward.
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What is contemplation?
A form of silent prayer in which we focus entirely on God and listen for his voice.
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Who is Kateri Tekakwitha?
This woman is the first Native American saint and is a patron saint of ecology, the study of how all living organisms relate to each other and their surroundings.
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What is transubstantiation?
The change in substance of the bread and wine during the Consecration, though to the senses they still appear as bread and wine.
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