Happy Easter, Heraldites!
Now that we are in the Easter season, I can bring back the jokes! Have you heard this one? How do you make Easter easier? Answer: Replace the “t” with an “i.”
1) Catholic Hawaii
Where does Bishop Street in Honolulu get its name? (Follow us on Instagram: @hawaiicatholicherald. Then you will know the answer to this.)
- a) From the Catholic bishops of Hawaii, who had their first residences and church offices on Bishop Street
- b) From American businessman Charles Reed Bishop and his wife, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a Hawaiian royal
- c) From Bishop Flour Company, a prominent Hawaii business
- d) Because the city planner at the time was a chess fanatic
2) Picture
This painting of the resurrection of Jesus is one of the earliest known works by which Renaissance master?
- a) Raphael
- b) Michelangelo
- c) Leonardo
- d) Donatello
3) Triduum
What color vestments can you expect to see clergy wearing during Good Friday services?
- a) Red
- b) White
- c) Black
- d) Purple
4) Saints
Besides being Easter, April 21 is also the feast day of this “father of scholasticism.”
- a) St. Augustine
- b) Archbishop Lanfranc
- c) St. Dominic
- d) St. Anselm
5) Easter calendar
If you’ve ever wondered why Easter moves around on the calendar so much, you might be interested to know that in the Roman Catholic Church the date is picked based on what in relationship to the first day of spring?
- a) the pope’s birthday
- b) when the Jewish feast of Passover falls
- c) the first Sunday after the first full moon following the first day of spring
- d) the Julian calendar
6) Easter around the world
In Bermuda on Good Friday, it has become the custom to do what?
- a) burn effigies of Judas
- b) fly kites
- c) not leave your house
- d) decorate public wells
7) Catholic Hawaii
Where is Resurrection of the Lord Parish in Hawaii?
- a) Waialua
- b) Wahiawa
- c) Waipio
- d) Wailuku
Answers: 1) b, 2) a, 3) a, 4) d, 5) c, 6) b, 7) c