Lent
Sacramentals
Customs of the Triduum
Easter
Art
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Lent is a penitential season that lasts this number of days
What is 40 days?
400
Venerated during the liturgy on Good Friday this Sacramental is sometimes life sized.
What is the cross?
400
There are seven readings, Epistle and Gospel at this Mass. Wow that's a lot of readings!
When is Holy Saturday?
400
The practice of hiding and finding this food item is symbolic of the new life of Easter
What are Easter eggs?
400
This Icon depicts Jesus triumphantly entering this city about a week before His Passion
What is Jerusalem?
800
Lent begins with Mass on this day in which we receive ashes on our heads and are extorted to "Repent and believe in the Gospel"
What is Ash Wednesday?
800
These sacramentals are blessed or consecrated in the cathedral by the Bishop on Holy Thursday and stored at each church in the Ambry.
What are Holy Oils?
800
Our word Easter comes from this word
What is East?
800
The Season of Easter begin with the celebration of this Vigil Mass
What is the Easter Vigil?
800
This panting by Leonardo da Vinci depicts this Holy Thursday event
What is the Last Supper?
1200
The Liturgical color of Christmas and Easter is white but during Lent the altar is covered in this color cloth.
What is purple?
1200
These items are covered during the liturgy of Good Friday and the day of Holy Saturday to increase our sense of loss and sorrow
What are statues or images?
1200
The oil of Chrism is pure olive oil mixed with this other oil to give it a perfumed scent
What is balm or balsam?
1200
The morning of Easter the women were going to Jesus' tomb carrying these items
What are spices or embalming ointments?
1200
This piece of art depicts this early event of the Passion
What is the Agony in the Garden?
1600
Lent was originally a season of preparation for this group of people who are preparing for baptism at the Easter vigil
Who are the catechumens?
1600
Waved by the people and laid on the ground as Jesus entered Jerusalem these are still used at Mass the Sunday before Easter
What are palms?
1600
In big cities there is a custom to visit this many churches and their altar of repose after the Good Friday liturgy
What is seven or seven churches?
1600
This disciple was not present when Jesus appeared to His disciples on Easter and did not believe in the resurrection but a week later he was present to see Jesus and exclaimed "My Lord and my God"
Who is Thomas?
1600
This piece of art depicts an event recalled in the Stations of the Cross when Jesus was assisted by this man
Who is Simon of Cyrene?
2000
Fasting during Lent calls us to think about this rather than our body.
What is our soul?
2000
Lit from the Easter Fire at the Easter Vigil this is also used for baptisms and funerals
What is the Pascal or Easter Candle?
2000
The Stations of the Cross are akin to this practice the most well known of which is held in Oberammergau Germany.
What are Passion Plays?
2000
To show His disciples that he is not a ghost after His Resurrection Jesus does this several times in their presence.
What is eat or break bread?
2000
Traditional in some Eastern European countries and some places in the US this butter lamb recalls this this title of Jesus
Who is the Lamb of God?