Practice Questions – Intro to HQ (HQ1)

Below you can find some sample questions on the Holy Qurbono – Intro! It is provided in various formats.  (Questions provided by St. Mary’s Miami.)

Printable Documents

  • Question Sheet:  Click here
  • Answer Sheet:  [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!

Online Questions Here

  1. When did Jesus establish the Holy Qurbono as the New Testament sacrifice? What was replaced?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  2. What does the Holy Qurbono commemorate?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  3. What does the word ‘Qurbono’ mean?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  4. What is another name for Holy Qurbono/Holy Communion?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  5. Holy Qurbono is the ‘___________’.
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  6. What are the 4 components of the Holy Qurbono?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  7. Who is the celebrant and who is the ambassador?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  8. What are the primary Sacramental items for the holy Qurbono?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  9. What are the official terms for the Book/Rite of the Holy Qurbono?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  10. How many different Taksas are there in existence?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  11. The first church in Christianity is also known as _____________. What occurred here?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  12. Who consecrates a church building? What is it anointed with?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  13. What is the church building a symbol of?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  14. What are the 3 main divisions of a church building?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  15. Madbaho is from the root word dbah, meaning ‘_________’.
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  16. The Madbaho is the most sacred place in the church building. What does it represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  17. What is the thronos?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  18. What does the Chancel/Kestrumo represent? What was offered here and when?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  19. What does the Nave/Common Place represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  20. What is the veil called? What does it represent when it is opened?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  21. What does thronos mean? What does it represent? What is another name for it?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  22. What does Sleebo mean? Where is it placed? What does it symbolize? It is described as the _________________.
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  23. What do the 12 candles represent? What does the light from the candles symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  24. Candles made of animal fats permitted to use in the church. True or False?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  25. What is the Tablitho? Why should it be handled carefully by a bishop, priest, or deacon? What does it have an inscription of?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  26. What is another name for the Tablitho? Why is it called this?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  27. Without the Tablitho the Qurbono cannot be celebrated. True or False?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  28. What does the Tablitho symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  29. How many times can the Qurbono be celebrated on one Tablitho per day?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  30. What is placed on the Tablitho during the Holy Qurbono?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  31. What is the tricolor spread called? Describe it and what the colors represent.
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  32. What is the altar cloth called? What do the three parts symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  33. What is the altar step called? When does the celebrant stand on it and what does it symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  34. What are the chalice and paten called? What do they hold?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  35. What is the purpose of the Kablana? When is it not used?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  36. The Kablana symbolizes 2 things. What are they?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  37. What is the Star (cross) called? Where is it placed? What does it symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  38. What is the bowl called? What is it used for?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  39. What is the spoon called? What does it represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  40. What is the cushion called? What is it used for? What does it symbolize?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  41. What is the Shushefo used for? What does it represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  42. The Shushefo symbolizes 2 things. What are they?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  43. What is the Lectern? What does it symbolize? It is honored as the second ________.
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  44. What is the Censer called? How many chains and bells?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  45. What do the lower and upper cups of the censer represent? (Note: the lower cup represents 2 things)
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  46. What does each chain of the censer represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  47. What do the bells of the censer represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  48. What do the links on the chains of the censer represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  49. What do the coal, fire, and incense of the censer represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  50. What do the altar assistants use the kai mani(hand bell) for?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  51. What is the Church Bell used for and when? What should we do when we hear it ring?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  52. Once the Holy Qurbono begins, the big Church bell should not ring. True or False?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  53. There are 3 other times when the Church bell is rung. What are they?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  54. What are the fans called? What do they symbolize? What does their sound represent?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!
  55. What is the Lahmo? What is it made of?
    [msosa_restrictprompt] All Sunday School teachers, administrators, and clergy within the diocese can register!

Leave a Reply