"Why's" of the Mass
Across
- 2. act of reconciliation (3 words)
- 7. we offer ourselves to Christ; submission
- 9. using God’s words to speak back to Him (2 words)
- 11. begging for mercy
- 12. color symbolizing penitential season
- 13. Jewish tradition of marking their homes and selves as being God’s holy people
- 15. reminder of baptism and entrance into Church (2 words)
- 18. color symbolizing growth and life
- 19. symbolizes the priest’s authority to serve for Christ
- 20. belt, priest prays for his own chastity
- 21. we join the angels in Heaven to worship God
- 22. white to symbolize the priest’s baptismal vows
Down
- 1. color symbolizing celebration
- 3. symbolizes the priest’s charity as well as acting in persona Christi
- 4. Yes, I believe, I stake my life on this belief
- 5. color symbolizing fire of the Holy Spirit or martyrs
- 6. God is a trinity; your worth is the life of Jesus (4 words)
- 8. unity of whole Church; reuniting Body and Blood of Christ (2 words)
- 10. posture taken when actively listening to the word of God (3 words)
- 14. how to apply scripture to our lives
- 16. Hebrew for ‘praise the Lord’
- 17. raising of the bread to Heaven to become Jesus