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I’m thankful for you, dear readers, as you challenge your Catholic knowledge yet again this week. Help yourself to an extra slice of pie next week on Thanksgiving! – H.C. Harold
1) Catholic Hawaii
Sacred Heart Parish in Punahou and St. Pius X in Manoa will decluster as of Jan. 1 and each get their own pastor once again. What year were the two parishes clustered under one pastor? (You’ll know the answer to this question if you read the story on the parish declustering in this issue.)
- a) 2010
- b) 1999
- c) 1992
- d) 2004
2) Mass
How long are you supposed to fast from food and drink (except water) prior to receiving holy Communion?
- a) 1 hour prior to the start of Mass
- b) 1 hour prior to receiving the Eucharist
- c) three hours prior to receiving the Eucharist
- d) from midnight the night before receiving the Eucharist
3) Mary
St. Bernardine of Siena is attributed as the person who led to what word being added to the “Hail Mary”?
- a) Jesus
- b) Mary
- c) women
- d) womb
4) Scripture
The second reading for Nov. 25 concludes with this sentence. “I am the ____ and the ____, “ says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” Can you fill in the blanks?
- a) Father, Son
- b) Divine, Human
- c) Alpha, Omega
- d) Glory, Power
5) Current events
The International Astronomical Union recently voted to rename what law to include an acknowledgement of Belgian priest and astronomer Father Georges Lemaitre’s contribution to the theory of the expansion of the universe?
- a) Kepler’s Law
- b) Newcomb’s constants
- c) Hubble’s Law
- d) The Theory of Relativity
6) Thanksgiving
Before Squanto, an English-speaking Native American, played a key role at Plymouth Rock with the Puritan pilgrims in 1620, he escaped kidnapping by European traders. Some accounts say he was rescued by Catholic friars from what country?
- a) Spain
- b) France
- c) Belgium
- d) Italy
7) Saints
Nov. 17 is the feast day of this princess who married German royalty. She was a devout and charitable woman who lived like a nun after her husband’s death, caring for the sick and helping the poor. She is the patroness of secular Franciscans.
- a) St. Philomena of Rome
- b) St. Rita of Cascia
- c) St. Catherine of Alexandria
- d) St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Answers: 1) b, 2) b, 3) a, 4) c, 5) c, 6) a, 7) d