Catholic Knowledge

5. To honor, admire, and regard with respect.
9. The act of releasing someone from their sin by God through the means of a priest.
10. An outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace.
12. A silver or gold stand that contains a circular window surrounded by a sunburst of rays. Inside the circular window is placed a wafer, which is the Eucharist.
14. The members of the Catholic church who are not in the clergy. They are not ordained.
15. The divinely appointed authority in the Catholic Church consisting of the Pope and Bishops whose purpose is to teach and establish the true faith without error.
16. A systematically arranged body of church teaching.
17. A moment during the the mass where God, through the priest, changes bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.
18. The bread in the communion supper that is changed into the body of Christ.
19. Receiving the sacrament of the holy orders.

1. The punishment of cutting off a person from receiving the sacraments and exclusion from the communion of the church.
2. Nine days of prayer.
3. A forty-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday accompanied by some form of prayer and fasting.
4. A very holy person. Usually, it is someone who has been dead for many years and has been canonized by the Catholic Church.
6. The taking of the body and soul of Mary, by God, into glory.
7. An infallible declaration by the Pope that a particular Christian who was previously beautified is worthy of veneration by the entire Roman Catholic church.
8. Worship that is directed towards God.
11. Telling sins to a priest, and the Lord forgives the person through the priest.
13. A gift of the Holy Spirit that helps in a person’s devotion to God.