Symbols
The color priests wear for most of Lent.
The first day of Lent.
What is Ash Wednesday?
What we do not eat on Fridays in Lent.
Meat
What is 40?
The number of days Jesus spent in the desert being tempted by the evil spirit.
What is 40 days?
Lenten symbol of our own mortality.
What are ashes?
The first day of Holy Week.
What is Palm Sunday?
On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholic adults do this to share in the suffering of Christ.
The Jewish Feast that Jesus was celebrating the night before he died.
The institution of the Eucharist does not appear in this Gospel.
What is John?
The shape the ashes are put in on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday.
What is a cross?
The day of the week that is not counted in the 40 days of Lent.
What is Sunday?
Many Catholics choose to do this as a daily reminder of their Lenten experience?
What is give something up?
The day we commemorate Jesus' death.
What is Good Friday?
The readings this year are from which Gospel since we are in liturgical cycle B.
What is John?
What the ashes are made from?
The only day we do not celebrate Mass.
What is Good Friday?
The garden Jesus prayed in when he was arrested.
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
The Gospel in which the word Lent appears.
What is none of them?
This candle is lit each year at the Easter Vigil and will be used throughout the liturgical year for baptisms and funerals.
What is the Paschal Candle?
The day we celebrate the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood.
What is Holy Thursday?
During Mass in Lent you won't hear this sung before the Gospel.
The Apostle who denied he knew Jesus three times the night he was arrested.
Who is Peter?