THE BASICS
This season lasts 40 days (not counting Sundays) and prepares us for Easter.
What is Lent?
Jesus did this for 40 days in the wilderness.
What is fasting (and being tempted)?
The substance placed on foreheads on during the first day of Lent.
What are ashes?
The day Jesus enters Jerusalem with crowds shouting “Hosanna!”
What is Palm Sunday?
This word is often “buried” during Lent until Easter.
What is “Alleluia”?
The day Lent begins.
What is Ash Wednesday?
It rained this long during Noah’s flood.
What is 40 days and 40 nights?
The ashes are usually made from these from the year before.
What are palm branches (from Palm Sunday)?
The day we remember the Last Supper.
What is Maundy Thursday?
Giving to the poor or charity is called this.
What is almsgiving?
The church color most often used in Lent.
What is purple?
The Israelites wandered in the wilderness this many years.
What is 40 years?
The words: “Remember that you are ___…”
What is “dust, and to dust you shall return”?
The day we remember Jesus’ crucifixion.
What is Good Friday?
This is the most common Christian symbol used during Lent.
What is the cross?
The final week of Lent is called this.
What is Holy Week?
This prophet traveled and fasted 40 days to Mount Horeb.
Who is Elijah?
This spiritual practice means turning back toward God.
What is repentance?
The garden where Jesus prayed before his arrest.
What is Gethsemane?
Many churches do this after communion on Maundy Thursday.
What is stripping the altar?
The last day of Lent, the day before Easter Sunday.
What is Holy Saturday?
This was the “bread from heaven” the Israelites ate in the wilderness.
What is manna?
This Psalm includes “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”
What is Psalm 51?
The person who helped carry Jesus’ cross.
Who is Simon of Cyrene?
The devotional practice that walks through Jesus’ journey to the cross.
What are the Stations of the Cross?