Observance
On Fridays during Lent, Catholics are not supposed to eat the following food item.
What is meat?
The first story in the Bible
What is Creation?
The sacrament which the individual is anointed in holy water.
What is Baptism.
This is the first day of lent and is marked by fasting and the marking of foreheads in the sign of a cross.
What is Ash Wednesday?
This sacrament "washes us clean" and renews us in Christ. (You can go as many times as you like.)
What is the Sacrament of Confession?
The 28 day period leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
The number of Gospels
What is four?
Sacrament which involves the taking of the body and blood of Christ through consecrated bread and wine.
What is the Eucharist?
This day commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and comes near the end of Lent.
What is Good Friday?
The first act you perform when you enter a Catholic church
What is blessing with holy water?
The term for days where Catholics are expected to attend Mass.
What is "Holy Day of Obligation".
The Prayer Jesus teaches in Matthew 6:9-13
What is the Our Father?
The consecration of man and woman into one.
What is matrimony.
This day of the week was when Jesus had the Last Supper with the disciples.
What is Thursday?
A form of devotion in which five decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be.
What is Praying the Rosary?
The term for the ceremonial touching of forehead, stomach and shoulders during mass.
What is the sign of the cross?
In John 11:38-44, Jesus raises this person from the dead
Who is Lazarus?
One which a priest receives
What is Holy Orders.
This is the day immediately after Halloween and which commemorates the dead in Heaven and those in the church who led exceptional lives.
What is All Saints Day.
Number of Stations of the Cross
What is 14?
The term for the bowing of one knee which Catholics perform prior to entering the pews when they come into the area where the Holy Eucharist is present.
What is genuflecting/genuflection?
In Luke 4:1-2, Jesus was lead by the Spirit into the wilderness where he ate nothing for this many days
What is 40?
This is often given to people who are really sick
What is Anointing of the Sick?
Name the Catholic Day of Obligation which occurs 40 days after Easter and commemorates Christ going to heaven OR the day on August 15 celebrating Mary going to Heaven (Also the anniversary of this church forming)
What is Ascension Thursday or Assumption of Mary into Heaven?
A special box where the Eucharistic Bread is kept between Masses
What is the Tabernacle?