Lent
This day starts the season of Lent.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The word Triduum means this many parts.
What are three parts?
We celebrate this on Easter.
What is Jesus rising from the dead?
There are this many Stations of the cross.
What are fourteen stations?
The day before Ash Wednesday is known as this.
What is Fat Tuesday?
We as Catholics abstain from eating this on Fridays during lent.
What is meat?
These three days make up the Triduum.
What are Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday?
These people found Jesus’s tomb empty on Easter Sunday.
Who are Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Salome?
The stations of the cross go through these events step by step.
What is Jesus’s crucifiction?
This is the reason Lent lasts 40 days.
What is Jesus spent forty days in the desert before his crucifiction?
The season of lent lasts this many days.
What is forty days?
We re-enact this event from Jesus’s final days on Holy Thursday.
What is the washing of the Apostles feet?
Jesus stayed on earth for this many days before he finally ascended into heaven.
What is forty days?
Jesus falls this many times on his way to be crucified.
What is three times?
This is how we get the ashes for Ash Wednesday.
What are burned palms from the previous Palm Sunday?
During the season of Lent Catholics stop using this word.
What is Alleluia?
This very important event takes place on Good Friday.
What is Jesus dies on the cross?
This apostle didn’t believe that Jesus had risen until he felt his wounds from the crucifiction.
Who was Thomas?
This person is asked to help Jesus carry his cross.
Who was Simon of Cyrene?
We distribute palms on Palm Sunday for this reason.
What is to remember how Jesus was greeted when he entered Jerusalem before the crucifiction?
This is the color of Lent in the church.
What is purple?
This marks the beginning of Easter and is when we first light the Easter candle.
What is the Easter Vigil Mass?
This person was the first person Jesus visited on Easter after rising from the dead.
Who was Mary Magdalene?
This man paid to have Jesus’s body taken down from the cross and laid to rest in a tomb.
Who was Joseph of Arimathea?
This is the place that Jesus died on the cross.
Whreis Golgotha?