Blogger’s
Note: Culled from varied Catholic online sources, this Marian Trivia is aimed
at enriching Religious Education students’ understanding and appreciation of
the meaning and celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
1. This dogma of our
Catholic faith refers to the condition that the Blessed Virgin
Mary was free from original sin from the very moment of her
conception in the womb of her mother.
2. Does the feast of
the Immaculate Conception also celebrate the conception of Christ in
the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
3. What is the name of
that feast and its feast day that joyfully commemorates the
conception of Christ in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
4. When (exact date)
is the dogma of the Immaculate Conception promulgated, the pope (complete
name) who declared the promulgation decree, and the Apostolic
Constitution (complete name) that contains the definition of this Marian
dogma?
5. State the concise
definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Write your answer in
sentence case. Do not capitalize all the letters.
6. Cite the three
important biblical references which support the teaching of the Church on
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
7. The famous Catholic
theologian (+1308) whose outstanding defense of the doctrine
of the Immaculate Conception made the feast spread throughout the
West. "He showed that
God had sanctified Mary at the moment of her conception in His
foreknowledge that the Blessed Virgin would consent to bear Christ." In
other words, Mary too had been redeemed—her redemption had simply been
accomplished at the moment of her conception, rather than (as with
all other Christians) in Baptism.
8. What is the name of
the feast observed by Christian churches in the East beginning the seventh
century which celebrates the conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary in the womb of Saint Anne?
9. Is the Solemnity of
the Immaculate Conception a holy day of obligation in the Philippines?
10. What is a holy day
of obligation?
11. What biblical
reference/text is considered as the locus classicus for the
doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady?
12. Read this classic
passage from Gen 3:15, "And I
will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her
Seed; He shall crush your head, and you shall strike at His heel." To
whom God is addressing the statement? Who is the woman and the Seed that God
is referring to?
13. What is the New
Testament biblical reference which links Mary as the mystical Ark of
the New Covenant who "contains" the Messiah? It
describes a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her
feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child.
14. The Pope
who made the feast of the Conception of Mary a Holy Day of Obligation
on 6 December 1708.
15. What is the name of
a 14-year-old girl, who claimed that a beautiful woman appeared to her and
said, "I am the Immaculate
Conception" at Lourdes in 1858?
16. Name the six
countries in the world which took Our Lady of the Immaculate
Conception as their nation's principal patroness.
17. The Pope who
declared declared the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of the
Immaculate Conception, principal patron of the Philippines by the issuance
of the bull Impositi Nobis on September 12, 1942
18. What is the meaning
or traditional translation of the Greek term kecharitomene spoken by the
Angel to the Blessed Virgin Mary describing her as a truly the
immaculately conceived woman?
19. Known as the Apostle
of Consecration to Mary, this Franciscan Conventual friar organized
the Militia Immaculata or Army of Mary to work for conversion of
sinners and enemies of the Catholic Church, specifically the Freemasons,
through the intercession of the Virgin Mary. He added to the Miraculous
Medal prayer: Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have
recourse to thee. And for all those who do not have recourse to thee; especially the
Masons and all those recommended to thee.
20. Name Papal
Encyclical and the Pope who published it in 1953 which
aimed to proclaim the first Church Marian Year in 1954 and to commemorate
the centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin Mary.
