Give It Up
"40 days" that the Catholic Church recognizes as a preparation time before Easter.
What is Lent?
A time to gather with other believers and celebrate the Eucharist.
What is Mass?
The act of communicating to God, whether in private or with a community
What is Prayer?
The day before Ash Wednesday
What is Fat Tuesday?
No meat is allowed on this day.
What is Friday?
Giving of one's resources, financially. A pillar of Lent.
What is almsgiving?
The place where Christians go to worship God together
What is a parish/church?
The date of Ash Wednesday in 2025.
What is March 5?
Ashes are made in this sign on foreheads on Ash Wednesday.
What is the cross?
Lent and Easter are always celebrated on the same DATE each year. T/F?
What is False?
Abstaining from food or drink for spiritual purposes.
What is fasting?
Pillar of Lent where we talk to God about our intentions and pray for others.
What is prayer?
The Book, literally; the book on which Christianity is based, in addition to tradition.
What is the Bible?
The last day to eat rich foods, indulge. Party before Lenten Season.
What is Fat Tuesday?
Christians are preparing for this during the Lenten Season.
What is Jesus' death and resurrection?
To fast/withhold luxury food.
Why is meat abstained on Fridays?
Volunteering, paying it forward, donating new/used clothing for example.
What is almsgiving?
Christians' sacrificial lamb
Who is Jesus?
A biblical significance to remind us of Jesus' death and our repentance.
What are ashes?
Where Passover is found in the Bible.
What is the Old Testament?
The Word that not used at mass during the Lenten season?
What is Alleluia?
Confessing our sins.
What is penance or reconciliation?
This is NOT found in the Bible.
What is Lent?
What is the Jewish observance on/near Easter where God spared the children of Israel by having them mark their doors with Lamb's blood?
What is Passover?
Noah's Ark, Jesus in the desert, Israelites in the wilderness, Lent.
What are 40 days?