Days
The day lent begins.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The day Lent ends.
What is Holy Thursday?
The shape of the blessed ashes put on your forehead.
What is a cross?
What is drink water?
The liturgical color for Lent.
What is Violet?
The number of days in Lent.
What is 40 days?
The reason Lent lasts 40 days.
What is the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and being tempted by Satan.
The day there is no mass celebrated.
What is Good Friday?
The types of foods Catholics can eat on Fridays during Lent.
Any other food!
Eating between meals leads to this.
What is break the fast?
The number of weeks in Lent the Church gives us to prepare for Easter.
What is 6 weeks?
Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday
The three holy days that follow Lent?
If one is too young to fast during Lent, this is a way to modify the full fast.
What is abstain from a favorite treat or activity during fasting times?
The meaning of fasting
What is going without or eating less foods, treats, habits, activities?
Ashes for Ash Wednesday are made of this.
What is burning palm leaves from last year's Palm Sunday?
The name of the day before Ash Wednesday
What is Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday?
On this day, the priest makes the Sign of the Cross on your forehead with blessed ashes.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The three practices in which we engage during Lent.
What is praying, fasting, and almsgiving.
During Lent Catholics engage in this type of abstinence on Fridays and Ash Wednesday.
What is avoid eating meat?
Traditional act or prayer to show sorrow for sins.
What is a penance?
The 4th Sunday of Lent.
What is Laetare Sunday?
This mystery of our dying to sin and rising with Chris to the new life of grace.
What is the Paschal Mystery?
The two prayers we do not recite during Lenten masses.
What is the Gloria and Alleluia?
The days we do fast as Catholics during lent.
What is Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
Traditional Lenten devotion tells the story of Good Friday in fourteen stages.
What is the Stations of the Cross?