Herald family,
Here is a joke you can teach your kids. What are the bones in your body that don’t believe in God? The blasfemurs!
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1) Scripture
The Gospel reading from the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Mark 6:7-13) talks about Jesus sending out his 12 Apostles to preach with the instruction to do all of the following except which?
- a) take a walking stick
- b) wear sandals
- c) bring only one tunic
- d) have just enough money for food
2) Saints
St. Kateri Tekakwitha (feast day: July 14) was an Algonquin-Mohawk virgin from what is today’s New York state. When she was 4, Kateri and her family contracted smallpox. All died except for Kateri. After encountering French missionaries, she eventually converted to Catholicism. What does Kateri translate to in English?
- a) Lily
- b) Catherine
- c) Katerina
- d) Katelyn
3) Catholic Hawaii
Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in the Ala Moana area of Oahu recently celebrated its expansion into a new building it purchased. Where did parishioners attend Mass between 1968, the year the parish was founded, and 1969, when the church was dedicated?
- a) at the nearby Sacred Heart Church
- b) various parishioners’ homes
- c) area hotels
- d) St. Stephen Diocesan Center
4) Church history
Docetism, the belief that Christ did not have a physical, human body on earth, was popular in Gnosticism. The Catholic Church declared Docetism to be what?
- a) true
- b) a heresy
- c) church doctrine
- d) a fad
5) Catholic A to Z
Nihil obstat, imprimatur, censor librorum. How do these Latin words relate to Catholicism?
- a) the official approval of a Catholic text for publication
- b) the rejection of faith
- c) prayers said at the end of Mass
- d) You made those words up
6) Catholic Hawaii
The “Golden Pineapple” award given in the Diocese of Honolulu is granted for what?
- a) being the parish with the “greenest” practices
- b) being the Hawaii Catholic School’s teacher of the year
- c) being the best church usher locally at showing hospitality
- d) having the best local Catholic school lunch program
7) Trivia
The fleur-de-lis symbol has a long association in the Catholic church to French saints, the Holy Trinity and Mary. What flower does the design represent?
- a) rose
- b) trillium
- c) lily
- d) iris
Answers: 1) d, 2) b, 3) c, 4) b, 5) a, 6) b, 7) c