Called by Christ Final Test

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Section One

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

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.

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

Katabasis

Apocalypsis

Paradosis

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

True

False

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

False

True

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

Pharaoh

Ahaz

Nebuchadnezzar

Solomon

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

False

True

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

False

True

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

Palm Sunday

Ascension

Pascha

The Sunday after Dormition

Section Two

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

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

Theosis

Theoria

Catharsis

Nepsis

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

All of the above

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

Is found in a grouping of services called the Horologion.

Is a rule of prayer founded largely on the Psalms.

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

False

True

The word "mystery", from the Greek, mysterion, means that which is hidden in God and only can be known by God revealing it.(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 tendency to excessively enclose all prayer within a ritual frame is referred to as:(Required)

Acedia

Pietism

None of the above

Liturgicalism

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

Fancy Beards (duh..)

Purity of Heart

Spiritual union with God in this life.

Life in the Church

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

None of the above

Ordination to Holy Orders

The mysteries of Christian Initiation

Special permission from the Bishop

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

Bishops

Priests

Deacons

Laity

Section Three

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

Metanoia

Theoria

Logismoi

Apatheia

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)

Adoration

Ritual

Idolatry

Veneration

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

True

False

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 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)

Inspiration

Canonicity

Immutability

Transmission

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

Preparation, Proclamation, Explanation, Application, Celebration

Preparation, Explanation, Proclamation, Celebration,Application

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

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

True

False

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

False

True

Section Four

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

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

A common stock of biblical imagery

A common artistic vocabulary

All of the above

Pilgrimage

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

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

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

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

Christ has a composite nature that could not be depicted.

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

Lay

Monastic

Diaconal

Presbyteral

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

The battle against VainGlory

The Jesus Prayer

The Divine Liturgy

The Office of 12 Psalms

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

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

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

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

Tropological

Allegorical

Literal

Anagogical

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

Age of the Empire

Age of Creation

Age of the Patriarchs

Age of Exile

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

The Tabernacle

The Temple

The Garden

Mount Zion

Ezra is primarily known as:(Required)

The King

The Israelite

The Steward

The Scribe

Section Five

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

True

False

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

Anagogical

Literal

Allegorical

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

False

True

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

Age of Creation

Age of Exile

Age of the Empire

Age of the Patriarchs

“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 Incarnational Analogy

Biblical Infallibility

The Marian Principle

Dual Authorship

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

Israel

Melchezidek

David

Esau

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

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

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

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.

God reveals Himself to man all at once.

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

Personal prayer is always ecclesial.(Required)

True

False

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)

False

True

Section Six

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)

True

False

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)

Solidarity

Philanthropia

Subsidiarity

Sobornost

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

True

False

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

Daily, weekly, yearly

Daily, monthly, yearly

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

Lust

Calumny

Avarice

Despondency

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

Circumstances

Intention

Content (Object)

Consequences

What is NOT a definition of Nepsis?(Required)

Scrutinizing the thoughts of fanciful notions

Remaining silent and still in prayer

Meditating on a mystery of Christ's life.

Calling out to Christ for help

The essence of idolatry consists in __________ .(Required)

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

Depicting the divine.

Worshipping a creature in place of the Creator.

Work of art depicting pagan gods.

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

True

False

Section Seven

The name “Deuteronomy” means:(Required)

The Five Scrolls

Second Law

The Ten Words

Law of the Covenant

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

Annunciation

Nativity of the Theotokos

Entrance into the Temple

Dormition

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

True

False

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

Sitting

Standing

Bowing

Kneeling

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

Moral

Global

Ecumenical

Political

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

Transfiguration

Ascension

Theophany

Nativity

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.

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

False

True

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)

Double Effect

Theonomy

Premillenialism

Intertestamental Echoes

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)

True

False

Section Eight

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

St. Gregory the Theologian

St. Gregory the Great

St. John Chrysostom

St. Basil the Great

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

Philistine

Greek

Medo-Persian

Babylonian

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

All of the above were foreseen

Government overreach in regard to the promotion of contraceptives

None of the above were foreseen

Lowering of respect for the dignity of women

General lowering of moral standards

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

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

A carved image.

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

Specifically a painting on a wooden panel.

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

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

A metaphorical expression of the demons.

Thoughts which occupy our understanding and lead us to sin.

The precursor to the 7 deadly sins.

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

Preparation

Proclamation

Explanation

Application

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

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

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

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

the preaching of the Kerygma

an exposure to the Divine Liturgy

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

False

True

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)

False

True

Section Nine

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

All of the above

The state

The Church

Parents

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

Transmission

Inerrancy

Infallibility

Canonicity

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

Compline

Matins

First Hour

Vespers

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

Sacrament

Covenant

Book

Tabernacle

"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)

True

False

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

True

False

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

Metanoia

Theoria

Liturgia

Theosis

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

Selective Appropriation

Idolatry

Organic Development

Syncretism

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.

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

True

False

Section Ten

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

Faith, Worship, Life

Worship, Faith, Life

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

True

False

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

Distributive justice

Private property

Subsidiarity

Solidarity

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

Use your Scofield reference Bible.

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

Be attentive to the analogy of faith.

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

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

True

False

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

Tripartite

Trisagion

Triodion

Triptych

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

False

True

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.

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

St. Augustine

St. Athanasius

St. John Chrysostom

St. Basil

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