Easter Season
Name of week with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday.
What is Holy Week?
Color used during Lent symbolizes penitence, mourning, and the kingship of Christ.
What is purple?
The Sunday that begins Holy Week.
What is Palm Sunday?
Matthew notes this natural event accompanied the angel’s descent from heaven, shaking the ground as the stone was rolled away from Jesus’ tomb.
What is a great earthquake?
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after March 21, meaning it can occur any time between March 22 and April 25.
What is the method for determining the date of Easter?
This Jewish festival close in time to Easter, commemorates God’s deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
What is Passover
This vivid color represents the blood of Christ shed on the cross and His passion.
What is red?
Judas received this to betray Jesus?
What are 30 pieces of silver?
This heavenly messenger, whose appearance is like lightning and clothing white as snow, rolls back the stone and tells the women, “He is not here; for He has risen.”
Who is the angel of the Lord?
These colorful objects, are an ancient symbol of new life and in Christian tradition came to represent Jesus’ resurrection and the empty tomb.
What are Easter eggs?
Two days before Easter, Christians remember Jesus’ crucifixion and death on the cross.
What is Good Friday?
Often paired with white on Easter, this shining color represents glory, triumph, and the celebration of Jesus’ victory over death.
What is gold?
He was entrusted by Jesus to care for His mother, Mary.
Who is John?
Overcome with fear at the angel’s appearance, these men stationed at the tomb in Matthew’s account shake and become like dead men.
Who are the guards?
This white flower, often placed near the altar, symbolizes purity and the resurrection of Christ and is especially associated with Easter celebrations.
What is the Easter lily?
40-day season of fasting and repentance leading up to Easter.
What is Lent?
Color symbolizes purity, light, glory, and the joy of Christ’s resurrection.
What is white?
The name of the garden where Jesus prayed in deep anguish before his arrest.
What is Gethsemane.
The region Jesus met with his Disciples after His resurrection
What is Galilee?
In Christian tradition, believers gather early on Easter morning for this type of service that recalls the women finding the empty tomb at dawn.
What is a sunrise service?
Heart of the Easter message, proclaims Jesus has risen from the grave, conquered sin and death, and offers believers hope of eternal life.
What is the resurrection of Jesus?
Group of soft, light shades, pinks, lavenders, yellows, and baby blues, reflect themes of springtime, gentleness, and new beginnings.
What are pastels?
The “Apostle to the Apostles”.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
Matthew alone records that, some of the guards were bribed by the religious leaders to say this.
What is "the disciples stole Jesus’ body while they were asleep."
In the town of Bessières, France, locals celebrate Easter by gathering to cook a giant version of this egg-based dish, using around 15,000 eggs to feed crowds of people.
What is an omelette?