Liturgical Seasons/Colors
Lent
Holy Days of Obligation
Vocabulary
The Sabbath
100

This color is worn during ordinary time

Green

100

Lent lasts for how many days? 

40

100

This Jan. 1st feast day is the first Holy Day of Obligation in the calendar year.

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

100

The day of rest or worship is called?

The Sabbath

100

The day of the week Catholics celebrate the Sabbath

Sunday

200

This color is worn during joyful moments of a penitential season

Pink or rose

200

Lent begins on this day

Ash Wednesday

200

How many feast days do we observe?

6

200

What do we call Holy Days, besides Sunday, when we are required to attend Mass?

Holy Days of Obligation

200

The day Jewish people celebrate the Sabbath

Saturday

300

Which season is the liturgical season is the longest? 

Ordinary Time

300

The priest typically wears what color during Lent

Purple

300

This Dec. 25th Holy Day commemorates the birth of Jesus

The Nativity of the Lord

300

What do we call worshipping with a community such as attending Mass.

External Worship

300

What are Catholics required to do on the Sabbath?

Attend Mass

400

The Color Red represents the bloodshed of Jesus, Martyrs and this Feast. 

Pentecost 

400

What do Catholics abstain from eating on Fridays during Lent?

meat

400

This Holy Day of Obligation, which falls on Dec. 8th, celebrates Mary being conceived without sin.

The Immaculate Conception

400

What do we call the day when Jesus rose to Heaven, body and spirit?

The Ascension 

400

Why is the Sabbath is on Sunday?

Sunday is the day Jesus resurrected 

500

The color purple is worn during the penitential seasons.  What are they?

Lent and Advent

500

What are the three pillars of Lent

prayer, fasting, almsgiving

500

This feast celebrating Jesus rising to heaven is celebrated 40 days after Easter.

The Ascension 

500

The name of place where Moses received the Ten Commandments

Mount Sinai 

500

What does Sabbath mean?

day of rest

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