I hope you are enjoying this beautiful Easter season, dear Heraldonites, as we enter the wondrous month dedicated to Our Lady. Surrexit Christus. Alleluia!
1) MARY
The visitation, the rosary’s second joyful mystery, commemorates Our Blessed Mother visiting her pregnant cousin. What was her cousin’s name?
- a) Joanna
- b) Sarah
- c) Elizabeth
- d) Veronica
2) SCRIPTURE
Complete this line from Revelation 21:2: “I also saw the holy city, a new …”
- a) Paradise
- b) Jerusalem
- c) Bethlehem
- d) Heavenly banquet
3) SAINTS
After St. Damien de Veuster was ordained a priest on May 21, 1864, in Honolulu, where was he first assigned?
- a) Kalaupapa, Molokai
- b) Wailuku, Maui
- c) Puna, Hawaii island
- d) Kakaako Hospital, Honolulu
4) POPES
Which pope wrote the encyclical “Redemptoris Mater,” or “Mother of the Redeemer”?
- a) Paul VI
- b) John Paul II
- c) Benedict XVI
- d) Francis
5) PRAYERFUL QUOTES
Complete this quote from the angelic doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas: “As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by ….”
- a) Mary
- b) Jesus
- c) The light of the cross
- d) The Eucharist
6) RELIGIOUS ORDERS
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Paul Miki and St. Francis Xavier were all members of which religious order?
- a) Dominicans
- b) Franciscans
- c) Benedictines
- d) Jesuits
7) THE APOSTLES
After the death of Judas, who was chosen to replace him as one of the Twelve?
- a) Barnabas
- b) Matthias
- c) Paul
- d) Silas
8) THE VATICAN
What Vatican publication, appearing 12 times a year, contains principal decrees, encyclical letters, decisions of Roman congregations and notices of ecclesiastical appointments?
- a) L’Osservatore Romano
- b) Diarium Vaticanum
- c) Acta Apostolicae Sedis
- d) Papalis Veritas
Answers: 1) c, 2) b, 3) c, 4) b, 5) a, 6) d, 7) b, 8) c