Beginning of Lent
This day begins the Lenten season, 46 days before Easter.
What is Ash Wednesday?
This cross has an image of Jesus' body on it, symbolizing the sacrifice Jesus made by allowing Himself to be killed.
What is a crucifix?
On Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent, Catholics over age 14 abstain from eating this.
What is meat?
On this Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, many celebrate before beginning the sacrifice of Lent.
What is Shrove Tuesday?
(Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras)
The priest wears this color vestments during the Lenten season.
What is a purple?
On Easter, we celebrate Jesus coming back to life, also called the _______.
What is Resurrection?
This is the day when we remember Jesus' death and crucifixion.
What is Good Friday?
This is a pillar of Lent where we talk to God about our own intentions and for the good of others.
What is prayer?
People over age 14 are expected to abstain from eating meat and on certain days, eat smaller meals.
What is fasting?
A simple Lenten food, often shaped like arms crossed in prayer, symbolizing fasting and devotion.
What is a pretzel?
On this day, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt, accompanied by his disciples, while crowds of people covered the streets ahead of him with their cloaks and with palm branches.
What is Palm Sunday?
Each Friday during Lent, our church hosts a 14-step devotional of the last moments of Christ's life, as he was beaten and sacrificed by Roman soldiers.
What are the Stations of the Cross?
This is a pillar of Lent where we give aid to those in need, donating money, goods, or our time.
What is almsgiving, love or charity?
When the priest or extraordinary minister marks our foreheads with ashes they say, "Remember that you are ___, and to ____ you shall return."
What is dust?
Jesus is often called the ____ of God, or the Paschal ____, relating His death to that of an animal sacrificed on the first Passover.
What is the lamb?
On this day, Jesus washed the feet of the disciples and celebrated the Feast of the Passover with the Disciples (what we now call The Last Supper).
What is Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday?
Before Stations of the Cross on Friday evenings, you can join the Knights of Columbus for a _____ fry in Assisi Hall.
What is fish?
This sacrament, first initiated during the Last Supper, is not celebrated on Good Friday services.
What is the Eucharist?
Lit at the Easter Vigil, the Paschal ____ represents Jesus as the Light of the World.
What is a candle?
In Jesus' Passion, or the Stations of the Cross, Jesus falls ____ times.
What is 3?
"This is my ____, which will be up given for you. Do this in memory of me."
What is body?