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Catechism of the Catholic Church
 Liturgy - Work of the Trinity/The Paschal
Mystery in the Church's Sacraments/
Celebration of the Liturgy
- True or False. In the liturgy it is not only the Father who blesses us, but we who bless the Father.
- Why is Christ's work in the liturgy sacramental?
Choose any combination of the following.
- His mystery of salvation is made present there by the power of his Holy Spirit.
- His Body, which is the Church, is like a sacrament (sign and instrument) in which the Holy Spirit dispenses the mystery of salvation.
- Through her liturgical actions the pilgrim Church already participates, as by a foretaste, in the heavenly liturgy.
- In the liturgy the other sacraments obtain their origin and efficaciousness.
- In the liturgy, specifically in the Eucharistic species, Christ is present purely in the power of his Spirit.
- What is the mission of the Holy Spirit in the liturgy?
Choose any combination of the following.
- To prepare the assembly to encounter Christ.
- To recall and manifest Christ to the faith of the assembly.
- To make the saving work of Christ present and active by his transforming power.
- To make the gift of communion bear fruit in the Church.
- To protect the liturgy against rubrical deviations.
- What is the definition of a sacrament?
- True or false. It is only the ordained priesthood, not the common priesthood of all believers, that is an essential element in the sacraments and liturgy.
- True or false. The sacraments strengthen faith as well as express it.
- Which of the following is false?
- The sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation for all people.
- Sacramental grace is the grace of the Holy Spirit.
- The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature.
- The fruit of the sacramental life is an increase in the Church's charity and mission of witness.
- None of the above.
- True or false. The liturgy is the work of Mary and all the saints, as well as that of Jesus.
- True or false. A distinction between the common priesthood of all believers and the ordained priesthood is that the ordained priest is ordained to represent Christ as head of the body.
- True or false. The signs and symbols of the human world (language, gestures, actions) by which we communicate, are ineffectual in a liturgical context and are replaced by the actions of God in the salvation of his people in history.
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