Lent
This the length of the Lenten season.
What is 40 days?
This is a short sumary of an organization's purpose.
What is a mission statement?
This is how many days Pentecost happened after Easter.
What is 50 days after Easter?
This is the one who forgives sins during the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Who is God through the priest?
This is a complete loss of hope.
What is despair?
This is the kind of preparation we do during Lent.
What is a time of penitential preparation?
These are the three parts of our baptismal mission.
What are priests, prophets, and kings?
Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit, an Advocate, and this is its special name.
What is the Paraclete?
This is the fancy word that means being forgiven of your sins during the sacrament of Reconciliation.
What is absolution?
This is a gift of divine love and power from God that helps us live as He intends.
These are the stories that we reflect on during the Lenten season.
What are the events that lead up to the death of Jesus?
This is how we act like priests as part of our baptismal mission.
What is offering spiritual sacrifices and serving others?
What is tongues of flame?
This is the sign that the priest makes as he recites the final words of absolution during the sacrament of Reconciliation.
What is the Sign of the Cross?
This is a deliberate or conscious choice to break God's laws.
What is sin?
These are the three pillars of Lent.
What are Almsgiving, Prayer, and Fasting?
This is how we act like prophets as part of our baptismal mission.
What is spreading the word of God / talking about the Gospel?
This is the ability that the Apostles were given by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
What is speaking in other languages?
This is sincere sorrow for sin and the resolve not to sin again.
What is contrition?
What is temptation?
This is the purpose of fasting during Lent.
What is helping us grow closer to God through sacrifice?
This is how we act like kings as part of our baptismal mission.
This is reflecting Christ's authority and leadership through serving God's people.
This is what Pentecost marked the beginning of.
What is the beginning of the Christian church's mission to the world?
These are the four symbols of Reconciliation/Confession.
What are keys, a cross, a priest's stole, and praying hands?
This is the type of grace that lives in the soul and makes it holy.
This is sanctifying grace.