VBS Day #5 @ St. Apollinaris Church

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL - DAY #5
JUNE 23, 2017
9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON
SACRED MYSTERIES (YOUTH ROOM)
THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST (PART 4 OF THE MASS)



And now we come to the shortest section of the Mass, the Closing Rites.

Don't blink, or you'll miss it!

The priest says: "The Lord be with you," and you know the answer: "And with your spirit."

The priest then gives a blessing, and the priest or deacon gives a dismissal.

That's it.

We spent two days on the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and two minutes on the Closing Rites.

Here is a link to the 11 x 17 cards in PDF format.

And now, to solidify it ... let's have a test! Or better yet, let's play Jeopardy!




TRANSLATE, PLEASE

100 Credo.
What is “I believe.”
200 Kyrie Eleison.
What is “Lord have mercy.” 
300 Alleluia.
What is “Praise God.”
400 Christi Eleison.
What is “Christ have mercy.” 
500 Yin fu, ji zi, ji shengshen zhi min.
What is the Sign of the Cross. 

SECTIONS OF THE MASS

100 The shortest section of the Mass.
What are the Concluding Rites. 
200 The section of the Mass with Bible readings.
What is the Liturgy of the Word. 
300 The first section of the Mass.
What are the Introductory Rites. 
400 The longest section of the Mass.
What is the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
500 The sub-section of the Mass where you receive the Body of Christ.
What is the Communion Rite. 

BIBLE NUMBERS

100 46.
What is the number of books in the Old Testament. 
200 7.
What is the number of petitions in the Our Father. 
300 1 time in John’s Gospel, 27 times in the Book of Revelation.
What is the title “Lamb of God.” 
400 150.
What is the number of Psalms.
500 73.
What is the number of books in the Bible. 

ORDER! ORDER!

100 The order of readings in the Liturgy of the Word.
What is Old Testament, New Testament, Gospel. 
200 Three things that happen after the Sign of the Cross in the Intro. Rites.
What is “I confess,” “Gloria,” “Collect.”
300 The Closing Rites.
What is Greeting, Blessing, Dismissal. 
400 The three Divine Persons of the Trinity.
Who are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 
500 The four sections of the Mass
What is Intro. Rites, Lit. Word, Lit. Euch., Conc. Rites.

ANSWER ME THIS

100 The Blood of Christ.
What is “Amen.” 
200 The Lord be with you.
What is “And with your Spirit.” 
300 Go in peace.
What is “Thanks be to God.” 
400 Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
What is “It is right and just.” 
500 Lift up your hearts.
What is “We lift them up to the Lord.” 

LONGEST PRAYERS

100 The longest prayer recited by the people.
What is the Nicene Creed. 
200 Third longest prayer, or an admission to the police.
What is “I confess.” 
300 The second longest prayer, sometimes on Christmas cards.
What is “Glory to God in the highest.” 
400 The fourth longest prayer, and the response to “Pray brethren.”
What is “May the Lord accept.” 
500 This prayer has 12 statements of belief.
What is the Apostle’s Creed. 

Jeopardy @ St. Apollinaris School

JEOPARDY - 6TH GRADE RETREAT ACTIVITY
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STUFF IN CHURCH

100 These long wooden benches sound like they might smell.

What is a pew.

200 This podium is where both Old and New Testament are read from.

What is the ambo. 

300 He walks and stands on the priest’s right side.

Who is the deacon.

400 This is where the transubstantiated hosts are kept.

What is the tabernacle. 

500 Their pictures adorn the walls and windows in a church.

Who are the saints. 

MIDDLE AGES

100 This medieval saint has a church named after him in Napa.

Who is St. Thomas Aquinas. 

200 Near the end of the middle ages, he discovered America.

Who is Christopher Columbus

300 An argument in the middle of the middle ages split the Church this way.

What is east and west. 

400 In the late middle ages, 7 popes lived in this country (not Italy.)

What is France.

500 This multi-national organization lasted through the middle ages until 1806.

What is the Holy Roman Empire.

BIBLE BABBLE

100 This is the language of most of the Old Testament.

What is Hebrew. 

200 The New Testament is in this language.

What is Greek.

300 The book of the Bible where the story of the Tower of Babel is mentioned. 

What is Genesis. 

400 Arguments among Hebrew and Greek Christians led to their ordination.

What are the first deacons.

500 The day the Apostles left the upper room speaking many languages.

What is Pentecost. 

POPE-ULAR PEOPLE

100 Three popes with this name lived in the last century.

What is Pius. 

200 He was pope when you were born.

Who is John Paul II. 

300 Where the current pope is from this country.

What is Argentina. 

400 The pope between John Paul II and Francis. He’s still alive.

Who is Benedict XVI. 

500 The pope who called the Second Vatican Council.

Who is John XXIII

MASS CHAOS

100 Do this before you sit down, or when you cross in front of the tabernacle.

What is genuflect. 

200 The three persons mentioned in the Sign of the Cross.

Who are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

300 When you smell this at a solemn Mass, don’t call the fire department.

What is incense. 

400 This is carried at the front of processions going in and coming out of Mass.

What is the (processional) cross (crucifix). 

500 The two times the bells are rung at Mass.

What are at the elevations. 

ROMAN NUMBERS

100 One.

What is “I”.

200 Five.

What  is “V”. 

300 Ten.

What is “X”. 

400 One Hundred.

What is “C”. 

500 One Thousand.

What is “M”. 

MAMMA MIA!

200 Jesus’s Mother.

Who is Mary.

400 Mary’s cousin, also John the Baptist’s mother.

Who is Elizabeth. 

600 She is called “mother of the living,” and was Cain and Abel’s mother.

Who is Eve.

800 King David’s ill-met wife, also King Solomon’s mother.

Who is Bathsheeba. 

1000 She asked for her son’s to sit with Jesus in glory. Name the sons.

Who are James and John. 

MODERN TIMES

200 The pastor of St. Apollinaris.

Who is Fr. Donahue.  

400 The bishop of our diocese.

Who is Robert Vasa. 

600 The current pope.

Who is Francis. 

800 The year that pope was elected.

What is 2013.

1000 The number of popes in the 21st century.

What is three (3). 

LOCAL DIOCESES

200 The diocese we live in.

What is Santa Rosa.

400 The archdiocese south of us.

What is San Francisco. 

600 The diocese east of us.

What is Sacramento.

800 The diocese south east of us.

What is Oakland. 

1000 The diocese west of us.

What is Honolulu.

KNOW THE ANSWER

200 The answer to “The Lord be with you.”

What is “And with your spirit.”

400 The answer to “Through Christ our Lord.”

What is “Amen.”

600 The answer to “Christ have mercy.”

What is “Christ have mercy.”

800 The answer to “Lift up your hearts.”

What is “We lift them up to the Lord.” 

1000 The answer to “Go in peace.”

What is “Thanks be to God.” 

AMEN.

200 The Lord’s prayer.

What is the “Our Father.”

400 The Angelic salutation.

What is the “Hail Mary.”

600 This prayer starts with “I believe.”

What is the Creed.

800 This prayer, called a doxology, mentions the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

What is the Glory Be. 

1000 This prayer asks an archangel to “defend us in battle.”

What is the St. Michael prayer. 

CATHOLIC COUNTRIES

200 The country housing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

What is Mexico. 

400 This country surrounds the Vatican.

What is Italy.

600 One of the two Catholic countries on the Iberian Peninsula.

What is Spain (or Portugal). 

800 The country with the largest Catholic population in the world.

What is Brazil.

1000 The continent has the least Catholics on the planet.

What is Antarctica. 

ST. APOLLINARIS

FINAL This modern-day country is the birthplace of St. Apollinaris.

What is Turkey. (or Antioch, or Roman Province of Syria.)

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AROUND THE WORLD

100 The approximate population of Catholics in the world.

What is one billion.

200 The continent with the largest number of Catholics.

What is South America.

300 The number of Catholic priests in the world.

What is four hundred thousand.

400 The country with the highest Catholic population.

What is Brazil. 

500 The city, besides the Vatican, housing the most relics.

What is Pittsburgh. 

WHO’S WHO IN 33 AD

100 Jesus’ grandmother.

Who is St. Anne. 

200 The Apostles mentioned most in the Gospels.

Who is St. Peter. 

300 St. Luke’s occupation.

What is physician (doctor).

400 The Apostle to the Gentiles (not one of the twelve.)

Who is St. Paul (or Saul of Tarsus).

500 A dove told him Jesus was the Son of God.

Who is John the Baptist. 

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

100 He wrote the first five books of the Old Testament.

Who is Moses. 

200 The number of New Testament authors.

What is 10. (9 is also acceptable.) 

300 Two out of the four Major Prophets. 

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel

400 The two bishops addressed in the Pastoral Epistles.

Who are Timothy and Titus.

500 The number of Minor Prophets.

What is 12. 

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

100 A gift from Our Lady, still present in Lourdes, France.

What is a miraculous spring of water. 

200 The author of St. Faustina’s diary?

Who is Jesus Christ. 

300 Levitation earned this saint the name “the flying friar.”

Who is St. Joseph of Cupertino. 

400 This saint is mentioned in the Ambrosian Canon.

Who is St. Apollinaris of Ravenna.

500 This 20th century flying friar chased bombers away from his hometown.

Who is St. Padre Pio (of Pietrelcina) 

MASS APPEAL

100 Vatican II said to hold this musical instrument in highest esteem at Mass.

What is the pipe organ. 

200 The number of Bible readings at Mass on a Sunday or Solemnity.

What are three. 

300 A ferial Mass is this.

What is a daily Mass. 

400 This hymn is sung before the Collect on Feasts or Solemnities.

What is the Gloria (Glory to God.) 

500 This prayer, dating to the 4th century, is known as the Canon of the Mass.

What is Eucharistic Prayer I. 

JESUIT INITIALS

100 S.J.

What is Society of Jesus.

200 I.H.S.

What are the first three letters of “JESus” in Greek. 

300 F.X.

What is (Who is) Francis Xavier.

400 S.T.D.

What is Doctorate in Sacred Theology.

500 A.M.D.G.

What is For the Greater Glory of God. 

POPE CULTURE

FINAL

Besides being popes mentioned in the Roman Canon, what do Linus, 

Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, and Cornelius all share in common?

What is martyrdom. 

THANK YOU TO OUR THREE CONTESTANTS! 

First Place won a copy of Fr. Mitch's book "The Holy Land: An Armchair Pilgrimage," 



and the runners up won copies of Fr. Mitch's book "The Holy Spirit: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics."



THANK YOU, ESPECIALLY, TO FR. MITCH PACWA, S.J. FOR AN ENTERTAINING, INSPIRATIONAL, AND EDIFYING DAY OF MASS AND RETREAT TALKS!