A Prayer Book Quiz!

Do have a go at the quiz, but please don't send us your answers on a postcard! The best answers sent in to the Associate Director using our contact form may be published and may win their author a Church Society pen. We will take answers from over-25s as well as the intended younger audience. We will not submit your answers to the Rev. R. C. Lucas for judgment.

1. "Seeing now... that this child is regenerate..." What do these words mean?

2. How does the Prayer Book help us to worship God?

3. What do we receive at the Holy Communion?

4. "I go to Church every Sunday evening but no one has yet been able to tell me why we sing the Nunc Dimittis when we do not want to die yet, or why we ask God not to take His Holy Spirit frmo us when He has promised not to!" Comment.

5. Why do you value the Prayer Book?

6. "The Prayer Book deliberately sanctions sacramental confession." Is this claim justified?

7. Some (e.g. Quakers) seem to undervalue the Sacraments; others (e.g. Roman Catholics) to overvalue them. What is the Prayer Book standpoint?

8. Since the Reformation believed in the Priesthood of all believers, why did they call the Minister a Priest so often?

9. Does the Prayer Book teach that we receive the Holy Spirit at Confirmation?

10. "All set forms of prayer quench the Spirit." Is this true?

11. How did the compilers of the Prayer Book aim to teach the gospel through eye-gate as well as through ear-gate?

12. "Since to baptize means to immerse, how can you Anglicans put up with this sprinkling?"