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Advent quiz study guide
1. Which is the most important feast day of the year?
2. When is the first day of Advent?
3. What are the colors of Advent?
4. What season comes after Advent?
5. What are we waiting for during Advent?
6. Advent is a season of _____________________.
7. Name one solemnity in Advent and the date.
8. Name one feast day in Advent and the date.
9. How many Sundays are in Advent?
10. Name one thing you can do during the season of Advent and why you should do it.
2. When is the first day of Advent?
3. What are the colors of Advent?
4. What season comes after Advent?
5. What are we waiting for during Advent?
6. Advent is a season of _____________________.
7. Name one solemnity in Advent and the date.
8. Name one feast day in Advent and the date.
9. How many Sundays are in Advent?
10. Name one thing you can do during the season of Advent and why you should do it.
St. Francis of ASsisi Biography
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St. Francis of Assisi Biography
St. Francis of Assisi
1. When and where was he born?
Assisi, Italy in 1182
2. What did his dad do for a living?
He was a cloth merchanct
3. What was his dream as a child? What did he do about it?
He wanted to become a knight so he went to battle.
4. Why did Francis change his ways?
He was captured in battle and held as a prisoner for a year.
Francis sold his father's cloth to pay for the rebuilding of the church. Francis left his home and made a vow of poverty.
6. Who did he want to connect with specifically?
The poor and the sick.
7. After he had about 11 followers, they went to the pope to…
get permission to start their religious order, the Franciscan order.
8. There was a woman who wanted to live like the Franciscans did. Her name was Clare .
9. Why do we always see St. Francis with birds or other animals?
He had a love for all of creation, including animals.
10. When is his feast day?
October 4th.
11. What miraculous sign did Francis receive?
He received the stigmata.
12. Franciscans wear a rope around their habit. What do the knots on the robe mean?
a. Poverty
b. Chastity
c. Obedience
St. Francis of Assisi Biography
St. Francis of Assisi
1. When and where was he born?
Assisi, Italy in 1182
2. What did his dad do for a living?
He was a cloth merchanct
3. What was his dream as a child? What did he do about it?
He wanted to become a knight so he went to battle.
4. Why did Francis change his ways?
He was captured in battle and held as a prisoner for a year.
- He was praying at San Damiano Church and he heard Jesus from the cross tell him to "rebuild my church." .
Francis sold his father's cloth to pay for the rebuilding of the church. Francis left his home and made a vow of poverty.
6. Who did he want to connect with specifically?
The poor and the sick.
7. After he had about 11 followers, they went to the pope to…
get permission to start their religious order, the Franciscan order.
8. There was a woman who wanted to live like the Franciscans did. Her name was Clare .
9. Why do we always see St. Francis with birds or other animals?
He had a love for all of creation, including animals.
10. When is his feast day?
October 4th.
11. What miraculous sign did Francis receive?
He received the stigmata.
12. Franciscans wear a rope around their habit. What do the knots on the robe mean?
a. Poverty
b. Chastity
c. Obedience
UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE
What did Pope Francis state would happen on September 4th, 2016?
Mother Teresa would be canonized a saint.
What is the significance of this date?
It is the eve of Mother Teresa’s death on September 5th, 1997.
Where and was Mother Teresa born? What was her birth name?
Mother Teresa was born Gonxha Agnes in Albania in 1910.
After joining an Irish Convent at the age of 18, where did Mother Teresa go and what did she do there initially?
She went to Kolkata, India and taught at St. Mary’s School for Girls.
Twenty years later, what did Mother Teresa feel a calling from Jesus to do? How did she respond to this calling?
She felt called by Jesus to care for the poor. She responded to this calling by founding a religious order called the Missionaries of Charity who serve the poor.
What did Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity do?
They serve the poor by washing the wounded and caring for the sick and dying.
What is empathy?
Understanding and feeling what others are feeling
Name three needs of the homeless.
(various)
Why should people help the homeless? Name 2 reasons.
1. Jesus tells us to in the Bible
2. Jesus says that whatever we do for his people, we do for him.
Name three ways you can help the poor.
What is the difference between the corporal works of mercy and the spiritual works of mercy?
The corporal works of mercy care for a person's phyiscal body.
The spiritual words of mercy care for a person's spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being.
Mother Teresa would be canonized a saint.
What is the significance of this date?
It is the eve of Mother Teresa’s death on September 5th, 1997.
Where and was Mother Teresa born? What was her birth name?
Mother Teresa was born Gonxha Agnes in Albania in 1910.
After joining an Irish Convent at the age of 18, where did Mother Teresa go and what did she do there initially?
She went to Kolkata, India and taught at St. Mary’s School for Girls.
Twenty years later, what did Mother Teresa feel a calling from Jesus to do? How did she respond to this calling?
She felt called by Jesus to care for the poor. She responded to this calling by founding a religious order called the Missionaries of Charity who serve the poor.
What did Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity do?
They serve the poor by washing the wounded and caring for the sick and dying.
What is empathy?
Understanding and feeling what others are feeling
Name three needs of the homeless.
(various)
Why should people help the homeless? Name 2 reasons.
1. Jesus tells us to in the Bible
2. Jesus says that whatever we do for his people, we do for him.
Name three ways you can help the poor.
What is the difference between the corporal works of mercy and the spiritual works of mercy?
The corporal works of mercy care for a person's phyiscal body.
The spiritual words of mercy care for a person's spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being.