Aloha friends,
This is normally road trip season on the Mainland, so I wanted to share this joke with you about Jesus’ car. Did you know he owned a Honda? What, don’t believe me? It’s in the Bible: “For he has gone to you of his own accord.” (2 Corinthians 8:17)
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1) Saints
July 29 was the feast day of a saint who complained to Jesus about her sister leaving her to do all the housework during his visit to their home. She also witnessed Jesus raising her brother Lazarus from the dead. What is her name?
- a) Mary
- b) Magdala
- c) Martha
- d) We never know her name.
2) Scripture
We hear in the Gospel of St. Matthew (14:13-21) about Jesus going to an isolated place where a crowd of people find him and the “miracle of the loaves and fish” happens. What caused Jesus to try and go into seclusion in the first place?
- a) Hearing about St. John the Baptist’s death
- b) Hiding from Jewish leaders
- c) Being driven out of town by a mob
- d) Passover approaching
3) Catholic Hawaii
Which diocesan event happening on Oct. 24 is going to be virtual rather than in-person?
- a) All Saints Celebration
- b) Diocesan Youth Day
- c) Statewide sacrament of confession
- d) Chrism Mass
4) Popes
Pope Urban VII, who died of malaria, is on record as having the shortest papacy. How many days was he pope?
- a) 5
- b) 9
- c) 12
- d) 25
5) Trivia
Father Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian Catholic priest, was the first person to propose the idea of the “Big Bang Theory.” To what religious order did he belong?
- a) Sacred Hearts
- b) Jesuits
- c) Redemptorists
- d) None. He was a diocesan priest.
6) Education
Xavier University, the only historically black and Catholic university in the U.S., is in what state?
- a) Louisiana
- b) Massachusetts
- c) South Carolina
- d) Maryland
7) More Catholic Hawaii
Bishop Larry Silva recently marked 15 years as the leader of the Diocese of Honolulu. Although he was born here in Hawaii, he was raised in and ordained as a priest in what diocese?
- a) Diocese of Sacramento
- b) Archdiocese of Portland
- c) Archdiocese of Los Angeles
- d) Diocese of Oakland
Answers: 1) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) c, 5) d, 6) a, 7) d