How Well Do You Know Your Baltimore Catechism?

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paramedicgirl said:
Everyone in this forum should get 100% on this quiz. Take it for fun. It’s actually pretty easy. Here’s my results:

You are a 100% traditional Catholic!

Congratulations! You are more knowlegeable than most modern theologians! You have achieved mastery over the most important doctrines of the Catholic Faith! You should share your incredible understanding with others!

Thank you for taking this quiz on the Baltimore Catechism. If you scored high, congratualtions, “go and make disciples of all nations”. If not, go to EWTN, and study some more, then re-take this quiz and see how much you’ve learned!
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That is elementary education stuff. 🙂 Needless to say, I passed with 100%. 😃
 
paramedicgirl said:
Well then maybe you would like to take the Latin Quizzes I published on my blog in January.
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Okay, I took them and got 9 out of 10 on both. On the Big Latin Quiz, my wrong answer was a really stupid mistake out of haste; on the Truth about Latin quiz, I really didn’t know the answer to the missed question.

Maria
 
MTD said:
Okay, I took them and got 9 out of 10 on both. On the Big Latin Quiz, my wrong answer was a really stupid mistake out of haste; on the Truth about Latin quiz, I really didn’t know the answer to the missed question.

Maria
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You did better than I did!
 
I got a 100%.

More importantly, my granddaughter got 100%…without the Baltimore Catechism.
 
MTD said:
Oh, but I think I’ve studied quite a bit more Latin than you have, so if I didn’t score higher than you, my studies haven’t…um…done me any good! 😃

Maria
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At least you avoided the medieval penances for those who scored worse than me! 😉
 
CarolAnnSFO said:
I figured that although Good Friday is a very holy day, it isn’t really a feast day. That left “Christmas and Easter”.

I still have my old pre-Vatican II Baltimore Catechism, by the way. It’s the one with the dark blue cover and the tissue-thin pages. It’s not the very first one for little kids just starting out, but the one after that. Sister Mary Peter Joseph used to put either stamps or stickers of angels, saints, or the Holy Family in our books when we got the questions right. 🙂
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I chose as the two biggest feasts as Pentecost and Easter and I scored 100. Are you saying you chose Easter and Christmas and got it right?
The reason I chose Pentecost over Christmas is that without Pentecost Sunday…the Birthday of the Church…well…there would be no Church as we know it.
 
98% Great quiz! was about time I tested my knowledge.
wish I could have done even better!👍
 
Good and Gentle People,

100%, the result of the Baltimore series of Catechisms between 1956 and 1963. Not even four years of an all-boys Catholic high school during and immediately after Vatican II could knock it out of me. Nor attendance at a public university to study engineering.

Some things are just burned into our memories.

Gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro.
 
Manfred said:
Good and Gentle People,

100%, the result of the Baltimore series of Catechisms between 1956 and 1963. Not even four years of an all-boys Catholic high school during and immediately after Vatican II could knock it out of me. Nor attendance at a public university to study engineering.

Some things are just burned into our memories.

Gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro.
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It’s good when it’s the good things that are burned into our memories! 😉
 
Wow, I have never read the Baltimore Catechism nor do I frequent this forum all that much but…

I am a 100% traditional Catholic!
 
H_Opey said:
I chose as the two biggest feasts as Pentecost and Easter and I scored 100. Are you saying you chose Easter and Christmas and got it right?
The reason I chose Pentecost over Christmas is that without Pentecost Sunday…the Birthday of the Church…well…there would be no Church as we know it.
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Good logic.
But without Christmas there’d be no Christianity, thus no need for a Church, just the Temple/Sin-agogue.
You’d be under the Sanhedrin chopping up lambs.
 
Whether Pentecost or Christmas is the bigger feast depends on your point of view.

Pentecost is older, and so perhaps is more venerable from a Church history point of view. But Pentecost celebrates the birth of the Church, and Christmas celebrates the Incarnation. Both are mysteries. Either is the “more significant” depending on the criteria you use to order the mysteries.

Thomas Aquinas would say (he didn’t, but he would), that Pentecost is the greater mystery with respect to us, because the birth of the Church is God bringing us into the very participation in salvation history. But the Incarnation is a greater mystery *sub speciae aeternis.

*Another way of saying this is that Pentecost is related to Incarnation as fulfillment to origin, just as Incarnation is again related to Creation as fulfillment to origin.
 
H_Opey said:
I chose as the two biggest feasts as Pentecost and Easter and I scored 100. Are you saying you chose Easter and Christmas and got it right?
The reason I chose Pentecost over Christmas is that without Pentecost Sunday…the Birthday of the Church…well…there would be no Church as we know it.
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Yes, I picked Christmas and Easter, and scored 100%! And it’s already been pointed out that Good Friday is also a feast day. Maybe that question had more than one correct answer. Good thing, because that was the one question I don’t remember from my Baltimore Catechism. Now, just to satisfy my curiosity, I’m going to have to go through the whole catechism trying to find it. 😃
 
100%, I would have been surprised if I had earned anything less. Thank you, Sisters of Mercy!
 
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