Called by Christ Final Test

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Section One

The laity participate in Christ’s priesthood, kingship and prophetic mission through (choose one):(Required)

None of the above

Special permission from the Bishop

The mysteries of Christian Initiation

Ordination to Holy Orders

The characteristics of Christian worship are: trinitarian, ecclesial, eschatological, and cosmic.(Required)

True

False

What definition does NOT fit for the concept of the Logismoi?(Required)

A metaphorical expression of the demons.

Thoughts which occupy our understanding and lead us to sin.

The Vice itself which must be confessed in the Holy Mystery of Confession.

The precursor to the 7 deadly sins.

The word which means a “three canticle hymnic composition” is:(Required)

Triptych

Trisagion

Tripartite

Triodion

What is Typology?(Required)

The illumination of the unity of God's plan of salvation across the Old and New Testaments by means of prefigurations and fulfillments.

The categorization of certain key events within Sacred History into genres, in accordance with their importance for Divine Revelation.

Which was not a foreseen consequence of the wide acceptance of artificial contraception (Pope St. Paul VI)?(Required)

Government overreach in regard to the promotion of contraceptives

All of the above were foreseen

Lowering of respect for the dignity of women

General lowering of moral standards

None of the above were foreseen

Which statement is more correct?(Required)

The Sacred Scriptures are divinely inspired and, since they do not err, cannot be said to contain any human element.

The Sacred Scriptures transmit the infallible divine Word by means of human language.

The hierarchical ordering of various ministries around the bishop are (choose all that apply):(Required)

Diaconal

Lay

Monastic

Presbyteral

Christian holiness is something the laity achieve through their hard work. (Required)

True

False

What is the proper ordering of the five steps of the ecclesial method?(Required)

Preparation, Proclamation, Explanation, Application, Celebration

Preparation, Explanation, Proclamation, Celebration,Application

Section Two

Chrismation is the Holy Mystery by which we are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit and this is revealed in the anointing with the Oil of Gladness before Baptism.(Required)

False

True

Veneration or relative worship is that meet reverence, even in the form of gestures, given to persons or things due to their place in the Divine Economy. Adoration is that service (at once taking a ritual and moral expression) rendered only to God which subsists in a complete gift of self to God.(Required)

False

True

Matins is the early morning service where we are watchful and waiting for the Lord.(Required)

False

True

"Flowery Sunday" is another name for:(Required)

Palm Sunday

Pascha

The Sunday after Dormition

Ascension

The liturgical vestments of the clergy symbolize the Incarnation of Christ.(Required)

True

False

The Imago Dei according to the Old and New Covenants refers to the fact that man is the image of God restored to the likeness of God in Christ.(Required)

True

False

The education of children is a responsibility that falls naturally to whom?(Required)

All of the above

Parents

The state

The Church

The Church’s teaching that upholds an equitable distribution of communal goods (food, water, adequate work, etc.), is called what?(Required)

Distributive justice

Solidarity

Subsidiarity

Private property

The tendency to excessively enclose all prayer within a ritual frame is referred to as:(Required)

Pietism

Liturgicalism

Acedia

None of the above

The idea advanced by biblical scholar, Richard B. Hays, that Paul makes use of texts from the Old Testament, not simply as a form of proof texting, but rather as a way of evoking a broader context in the Old Testament narrative that his Jewish readers especially would have understood, is known as:(Required)

Intertestamental Echoes

Double Effect

Premillenialism

Theonomy

Section Three

True/False In the mind of St. Seraphim, fasting is not optional for the Christian.(Required)

False

True

God's chosen people are involved in a Sacred History, in which God communicates Himself to them gradually.(Required)

True

False

The Catechism Christ Our Pascha is structured in which order?(Required)

Worship, Faith, Life

Faith, Worship, Life

All gifts and all ministries are directed towards the growth of the entire community as a single body.(Required)

True

False

The story of the Royal High Priest Melchizedek is told in which Age of the Kingdom?(Required)

Age of the Patriarchs

Age of Exile

Age of Creation

Age of the Empire

Catechesis should not rely merely on attending the Divine Liturgy, but also the establish of a private prayer rule, especially the Psalms and the Jesus Prayer- true or false?(Required)

False

True

The root of the word for Akathist means:(Required)

Kneeling

Sitting

Bowing

Standing

The Christian Church had no material culture before the year AD 300.(Required)

False

True

The Church, and the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, is the place of salvation.(Required)

No. According to the divine plan for salvation, the Church and the sacraments are entirely incidental to our salvation.

Yes. That which was accomplished by the Savior has now passed into the sacraments of the Church.

The Four Empires prophesied about in the Book of Daniel include all but which of the following?(Required)

Philistine

Babylonian

Greek

Medo-Persian

Section Four

A theological distinction can be made between the interior life of the Holy Trinity and the revelation of the Trinity in creation.(Required)

True

False

The process through which we become transformed as “partakers in the Divine nature”, is called what?(Required)

Metanoia

Liturgia

Theosis

Theoria

The word “testament” is also translated as:(Required)

Tabernacle

Book

Sacrament

Covenant

In orthodox practice, bowing, kissing, prostrating, reverently touching, genuflecting, and making the sign of the cross or lighting a votive before an image are gestures of __________ .(Required)

Ritual

Adoration

Idolatry

Veneration

In the narrative context of Genesis, the walking, talking serpent-king should remind us of which figure?(Required)

Ahaz

Nebuchadnezzar

Solomon

Pharaoh

According to St. John Cassian what is the goal of the Spiritual life?(Required)

Life in the Church

Fancy Beards (duh..)

Spiritual union with God in this life.

Purity of Heart

Which one is NOT a stage of the spiritual life in the classic desert model?(Required)

Catharsis

Theoria

Nepsis

Theosis

Which is said to be the central step of the Ecclesial Method?(Required)

Explanation

Preparation

Application

Proclamation

“Just as the Eternal Word was made flesh in human nature by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, so the Word of God through the Holy Spirit was enfleshed in the words of men.” This saying is an expression of:(Required)

The Marian Principle

Biblical Infallibility

Dual Authorship

The Incarnational Analogy

“Genesis functions primarily as a narrative catechism for the Exodus.”(Required)

False

True

Section Five

The essence of idolatry consists in __________ .(Required)

Work of art depicting pagan gods.

Depicting the divine.

Worshipping a creature in place of the Creator.

External acts of reverence given to a creature rather than to God alone.

According to Catholic teaching, the Bible is a unified library or a collection of 73 divinely inspired, related, ancient, oriental, redemptive, translated books that are authoritatively selected by the Church through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.(Required)

True

False

What is NOT a definition of Nepsis?(Required)

Scrutinizing the thoughts of fanciful notions

Calling out to Christ for help

Remaining silent and still in prayer

Meditating on a mystery of Christ's life.

Authentic catechesis cannot be done through liturgical chant, special occasional services (blessings, consecrations, prayer services, exorcisms), the Church building (icons, relics, holy articles), and family domestic traditions (icon corner, family prayer)- true or false? (Required)

True

False

The human person stands at the center of social life.(Required)

False

True

The depths of revelation are discerned most fully in the light of the Holy Tradition of the Church, and are progressively uncovered therein. Although, all are capable of a certain knowledge of God by means of contemplating His creation.(Required)

True. The gracious action of the Holy Spirit reveals the truth to all who live in communion with God, including those who seek Him with a good will.

False. Since Holy Tradition is not as authoritative as the Sacred Scriptures, and since the Scriptures teach us that faith is necessary for salvation, no one can come to any knowledge of creation whatsoever while devoid of faith.

Which is not part of a moral act?(Required)

Circumstances

Intention

Consequences

Content (Object)

The dogma that the Books of the Bible have God as their primary author, especially the Third Person of the Holy Trinity – the Holy Spirit, is known as:(Required)

Immutability

Transmission

Inspiration

Canonicity

True/False It is totally reasonable for the average layperson to pray the whole Byzantine Divine office on a daily basis.(Required)

False

True

An example of a Feast of the Theotokos based on the readings of the Gospel is:(Required)

Entrance into the Temple

Annunciation

Nativity of the Theotokos

Dormition

Section Six

Catechesis properly begins with which of the following:(Required)

an exposure to the Divine Liturgy

the preaching of the Kerygma

"Modern man listens more willingly to teachers than to witnesses, and if he does listen to witnesses, it is because they are teachers (Evangelium Nuntiandi)."(Required)

False

True

The service of the Lytia where bread, wheat, wine, and oil are blessed in the church traditionally occurs after:(Required)

Matins

First Hour

Compline

Vespers

What is the desert precursor to the Divine Office?(Required)

The battle against VainGlory

The Divine Liturgy

The Office of 12 Psalms

The Jesus Prayer

According to the Second Council of Nicaea __________ .(Required)

Christ has a composite nature that could not be depicted.

Christ is fully man and fully God and thus he cannot be depicted.

Christ is partially God but also partially man and thus could be depicted.

Christ is a divine person with a human nature that can be depicted.

St. John of Damascus was the first Christian thinker to mention or theologically reflect on the artistic tradition of the Church.(Required)

False

True

The __________ Sense is the foundation of all subsequent levels of biblical interpretation.(Required)

Literal

Allegorical

Tropological

Anagogical

The vice which places the amassing of material goods before all else is called what?(Required)

Calumny

Lust

Despondency

Avarice

The Divine Liturgies of St Basil the Great and St John Chrysostom are full of well over 200 verses of Sacred Scripture, woven together in a tapestry of sacred praise from the beginning of the liturgy until its end.(Required)

True

False

The name “Deuteronomy” means:(Required)

Law of the Covenant

The Five Scrolls

Second Law

The Ten Words

Section Seven

What is the Kerygma?(Required)

The living and uninterrupted experience of the unbroken continuity of Sacred Tradition.

The proclamation of the Paschal Mystery, witnessed in the life of the Christian community.

Baptism is the source of the charism and vocation of the laity.(Required)

False

True

The Hexapsalm is one of the central features of the service of Byzantine Vespers.(Required)

True

False

Byzantine liturgical prayer is structured around which of the following cycles:(Required)

Daily, monthly, yearly

Daily, weekly, yearly

The word "mystery", from the Greek, mysterion, means that which is hidden in God and only can be known by God revealing it.(Required)

False

True

The principle of Catholic social teaching that recognizes that issues are best dealt with at the smallest and most direct level of involvement, is called what?(Required)

Philanthropia

Solidarity

Subsidiarity

Sobornost

Of the list below, which Church Father is NOT one of the Three Holy Hierarchs:(Required)

St. Gregory the Theologian

St. Basil the Great

St. Gregory the Great

St. John Chrysostom

Personal prayer is always ecclesial.(Required)

False

True

The epiclesis is the moment in the Divine Liturgy when the Holy Spirit is called down to transform the bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.(Required)

True

False

True/False Nepsis is not necessary for the spiritual life.(Required)

True

False

Section Eight

According to the Seventh Ecumenical Council, an ‘icon’ is __________ .(Required)

A carved image.

Specifically a painting on a wooden panel.

Restricted to the sign of the cross and the matter of the Eucharist.

An image of a holy scene or personage in a variety of artistic media.

The primary sanctuary of God’s reigning presence in the Age of the Exodus is:(Required)

The Temple

The Garden

The Tabernacle

Mount Zion

The tria munera of the hierarchical priesthood is priestly, prophetic, and political.(Required)

False

True

The laity seek the kingdom of God by(choose one):(Required)

Becoming missionaries

None of the above

Becoming ordained

Engaging in temporal affairs and ordering them to the plan of God

Who said, “God became man, that man might become god”?(Required)

St. John Chrysostom

St. Athanasius

St. Basil

St. Augustine

Biblical ________ is really the theological consequent of Divine Inspiration.(Required)

Transmission

Inerrancy

Infallibility

Canonicity

True/False According to the latest Psychological Research, 'Thought Stopping' is the best way of reaching stillness.(Required)

False

True

The order of the appendices in the Catechism Christ Our Pascha reflects the following: Daily Prayers, Catechetical Truths, Social Directives.(Required)

True. This is the normal manner in which members of the church have learned the faith.

False. The proper beginning of all catechesis is social justice, and only then should we learn about prayers and catechism.

True/False The Foundation of most spiritual practices was the practices started in the Deserts of Egypt(Required)

False

True

In the Holy Mystery of Anointing, as we pray for healing of soul and body of the person(s) before us, there is also a forgiveness of sins.(Required)

True

False

Section Nine

Ezra is primarily known as:(Required)

The Steward

The Scribe

The Israelite

The King

Which is the better description of the Resurrection of Christ among the following statements?(Required)

The ultimate revelation of God's new creation.

The incorporeal manifestation of divine power over death.

The Church’s daily cycle of prayer:(Required)

All of the above

Is found in a grouping of services called the Horologion.

Is expressed according to biblical numerology by the number 7 as a number of perfection.

Is a rule of prayer founded largely on the Psalms.

Which Greek term means “to turn” or “to think differently”?(Required)

Metanoia

Apatheia

Logismoi

Theoria

God intended for mankind to gradually achieve perfection, even if we had not fallen into sin.(Required)

True

False

The ________ Sense of Scripture points to the way we should act or live, emphasizing especially the theological virtue of charity.(Required)

Tropological

Literal

Allegorical

Anagogical

A Christian’s entire spiritual life is service to God and neighbor.(Required)

False

True

The Patriarch Jacob’s name is changed to:(Required)

Melchezidek

Esau

Israel

David

__________ accounts for the early standardization of the emerging iconographic repertoire.(Required)

A common artistic vocabulary

Pilgrimage

A common stock of biblical imagery

All of the above

The life of grace is best described as which of the following.(Required)

A synergy, or cooperation, between the divinity and humanity, whereby humanity responds to divine revelation and invitation.

That which is initiated by human choice to follow God, and which is subsequently confirmed by the action of God.

Section Ten

Care for creation is primarily a _________ issue.(Required)

Global

Political

Moral

Ecumenical

Christian appropriation of the Greco-Roman artistic tradition can best be described as __________ .(Required)

Idolatry

Syncretism

Selective Appropriation

Organic Development

Which is NOT an example of a Fixed Cycle feast of the Lord:(Required)

Ascension

Nativity

Theophany

Transfiguration

The story of the Maccabees is told in which Age of the Kingdom?(Required)

Age of Exile

Age of the Empire

Age of Creation

Age of the Patriarchs

The Greek word for the principle of God’s condescension and divine accommodation in leading humanity to full maturity in salvation history is:(Required)

Mysterion

Paradosis

Katabasis

Apocalypsis

The apostolicity of the Church is realized in the ministry of (choose all that apply):(Required)

Laity

Priests

Bishops

Deacons

Our corporate worship is mostly recited with only a few things that are sung.(Required)

False

True

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?(Required)

Jesus always respects a persons free will and intellect. He reveals Himself and the ngives the disciples an opportunity to consider the revelation and to respond in faith. In this way, Jesus always provides an opportunity for personal application.

The Ecclesial Method is a method of teaching that is faithful to the Word of God and to the Magisterium of the Church.

The Ecclesial Method is aimed at leading participants to an authentic understanding of the Faith and to a conversion of heart.

God's divine pedagogy is exemplified in Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher, Who sets the ultimate example for all Catechists to follow.

God reveals Himself to man all at once.

Which one of these statements is NOT one of the three criteria for a proper interpretation of the Scriptures?(Required)

Read the Scripture within the living tradition of the whole Church.

Be attentive to the content and unity of the whole Scripture.

Be attentive to the analogy of faith.

Use your Scofield reference Bible.

The dignity of the human person exists from conception. (Required)

False

True