Easter Basics
How many days is the Easter Season?
What is 50 days?
This is the first Mass of the Easter season.
What is the Easter Vigil?
She was the first to witness the risen Christ in the Gospel of John.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
This is the name given to the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday.
What is Divine Mercy Sunday?
This candy brand is famous for its marshmallow chicks.
What is Peeps?
This liturgical color is most associated with the Easter season.
What is white? (or gold)
The Easter Vigil begins with the service of Light, in which the Paschal Candle, symbolizing Christ as light of the world, is lit. What symbols does the priest trace into the Paschal candle?
What are a cross, an Alpha and Omega, and the year?
Jesus was first mistaken for this by Mary Magdalene before she recognized him.
What is the gardener?
This Solemnity is celebrated 40 days after Easter Sunday.
What is the Ascension?
This flower is commonly associated with Easter and symbolizes new life.
What is the Easter lily?
This prayer, absent during Lent, returns at Mass during the Easter Vigil.
What is the Alleluia?
These are the people who typically receive sacraments at the Vigil Mass.
Who are Catechumens (or candidates)?
Jesus appeared to disciples on the road to this town.
What is Emmaus?
According to Acts of the Apostles, this many people were baptized on Pentecost.
What is about 3,000?
This candy company produces Reese's Peanut Butter eggs, one of the best-selling Easter treats in the U.S.
What is the Hershey Company?
This Solemnity concludes the Easter season.
What is Pentecost?
This long chant is sung by the deacon before the Gospel at the Vigil Mass.
What is the Exsultet?
After the disciples recognize Jesus in the breaking of the bread, they have a moment of clarity and remember that their hearts were burning within them when Jesus did this.
What is open the Scriptures?
This Marian Solemnity during May often falls in the Easter season.
What is the Visitation?
This Ukranian Lenten devotion involves decorating eggs with elaborate Christian symbols.
What is Pysanky?
This book of the New Testament is especially emphasized in daily Mass readings during Easter.
What is the Acts of the Apostles?
Describe the difference between a catechumen and a candidate.
A candidate is someone who is already baptized (already Christian); a catechumen is not yet baptized and receives all the Sacraments of Initiation.
This is the sea where Jesus appeared and told Peter to "feed my sheep."
What is the Sea of Tiberias (Sea of Galilee)?
This Gospel writer has a Feast Day on April 25.
Who is Saint Mark?
This country is widely credited with popularizing the modern Easter Bunny tradition in America.
What is Germany?