This is the color of the liturgical season of Advent.
What is purple?
The season that represents the beginning of the liturgical year in the church.
What is Advent?
This Advent symbol is round, usually green, and holds four candles.
What is the Advent Wreath?
Ms. Sarah is from the state of ___________, USA.
Washington
This word means "coming" and is the season when we prepare for the coming of Jesus.
What is Advent?
The name given to him as a baby means "God saves."
Who is Jesus?
On special occasions, Ms. Sarah likes to make _________. She has a hard time deciding which one to make though, so she asks her students to vote.
Desserts
This name of Jesus means "God With Us."
What is Emmanuel?
He is a descendant of David and the husband of the mother of Jesus.
Who is Joseph?
This color candle on the Advent wreath symbolizes joy and is lit on Gaudete (means Rejoice) Sunday.
What is pink?
The weather here in Belize recently reminded Ms. Sarah of home, because it was _____________.
Cold and rainy.
These words from Elizabeth make up part of a prayer to this person: "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, [Jesus]."
Who is Mary?
He is the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah and lived in the desert proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Who is John the Baptist?
This 40 days in the liturgical year is a time of preparation (fasting, prayer and giving) and leads to the greatest of the Church's feasts.
What is Lent?
There are four of these in the season of Advent represented by the candles.
What are Sundays?
When Ms. Sarah arrived in Belize, she was excited that there were trees with __________.
Coconuts
The town Joseph and Mary travelled to just before the birth of Jesus.
What is Bethlehem?
This is the liturgical season before Advent. On the liturgical calendar, it falls between special seasons and feasts and is based on the ordinal numbers used to count the Sundays.
What is Ordinary Time?
The four candles of the Advent Wreath represent Hope, Faith, Joy, and this.
What is peace?
Today, Ms. Sarah had ___________ for breakfast.