Dear readers,
Why is it getting harder to buy Advent calendars? Their days are numbered!
PRINTABLE QUIZ
1) Current Events
An image of Our Lady of Guapulo, a Peruvian image of Mary with Jesus, will get widespread distribution this year. How will it be seen?
- a) In a TV special on the Virgin Mary
- b) On a USPS Christmas stamp
- c) In a National Portrait Gallery online exhibit
- d) On the official Vatican Christmas card
2) Advent
What is the name of this prayer? “Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.”
- a) the Magnificat
- b) Christmas Novena
- c) St. Andrew Novena
- d) Hail, Holy Queen
3) Saints
Which saint whose feast day falls during Advent wrote the Advent hymn, “Veni redemptor gentium,” or “Come, Redeemer of the Nations”?
- a) St. Ambrose
- b) St. Francis Xavier
- c) St. Nicholas
- d) St. Lucy
4) Current Events
Advent begins on what day this year? Hint: It starts on the Sunday closest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle.
- a) Nov. 28
- b) Nov. 29
- c) Nov. 30
- d) Dec. 1
5) Popes
Before Pope Gregory VII changed the number of Sundays in Advent to four in the 11th century, how many were there?
- a) 2
- b) 3
- c) 5
- d) It varied every year depending on the calendar.
6) Advent
Which of these is not the beginning of an O Antiphon verse?
- a) O Adonai
- b) O Radix Jesse
- c) O Rex Gentium
- d) O Christo
7) Scripture
Complete this verse from the Gospel reading for this first Sunday of Advent (Mark 13: 33-37): “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when ____ will come.”
- a) the Lord
- b) the time
- c) Resurrection
- d) death
Answers: 1) b, 2) c, 3) a, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d, 7) b
