Cle 3rd Quarter Reviewer
Cle 3rd Quarter Reviewer
Liturgical Calendar
- The clothes of the priest, the scriptures that they read, the ceremonies we perform are based to what we
call the Liturgical Calendar.
- This calendar is different from our calendar at home and offices or called as Gregorian calendar. The
Liturgical calendar is known as the official calendar of the church, in which this is divided into 5
major seasons.
Advent (Adventus; Latin word & Parousia; Greek word, both means arrival or coming.)
Candles
Christmas
- Celebration of the birth of Jesus, this season includes the solemnity of Mary, the Epiphany, and the fiest
of the holy family.
- White and Gold is used to signify this joyous season.
- Epiphany – revelation of God making himself known to us.
- Magi – the three wise men (Melchior, Gasper, Balthasar) brought gifts to jesus
- The 3 Gifts – Gold to symbolize king.
- Frankincense to symbolize God
-Myrrh to symbolize human
- Preparation for the next celebration, the baptism of Christ in the Jordan river is the mark of the start
of this season.
- Green is the color used to signify the season of growth.
Lent
- Preparation for the commemoration of Jesus’s passion, death, and resurrection. Ash Wednesday is
the beginning of Lent.
- Purple is the color used to signify penitence.
- This season leads us to the Paschal Triduum (3-day commemoration of Jesus’s Passion).
Easter
(Pascal Candle is lightened up during Christmas and Easter, it symbolizes that Christ is the light of the
world.)
Exodus
- The meaning of Exodus means end or departure.
- The main point of this book is to save the Israelites from Egypt
Family of Abraham
- Terah is the Father of Abraham
- Nahor and Haran are the siblings of Abraham.
- Sarah is the wife of Abraham.
- Milcah is the sister-in-law of Abraham (wife of Nahor)
- It wasn’t easy for Moses to say yes because he was slow speech (bulol),
God gave signs: staff turned into a snake and was restored.
: Moses’ hand became leprous.
: water from Nile River became blood.
- When Moses advice God to send someone else because he was slow speech but God then said his
brother Aaron will be his spoke person.
2. 10 Plagues
1 – Nile River turned to blood
2 – Frogs spread over to the land of Egypt
3 – Gnats came on humans and animals
4 – Flies swarmed the houses of the Egyptians
5 – Pestilence struck the livestock of the Egyptians
6 – Boils festered humans and animals
7 – Thunder and hail rained down throughout the Egypt except Goshen
8 – Locusts covered the surface of the land and filled the houses of the egyptians
9 – Darkness prevailed in the land of Egypt for three days
10 – The firstborn of the Pharoah died
3. Passover
- Every household should get a year-old male lamb, and should take its blood to apply it to their two
doorpost and lintel on their house. Then they will consume its meat but It should be cooked
roasted, and not boiled. They will eat bread unleavened and will eat herbs that are bitter.