Timeline
This is the first day of Lent
What is Ash Wednesday?
Priests wear this color vestment
What is purple/violet?
Catholics over age 14 must do this on Fridays during Lent
What is abstain from eating meat?
The 40 days of Lent represent this event in the life of Jesus
What is Jesus' 40 days in the desert?
The Easter Triduum starts in the evening on this day
What is Holy Thursday?
What is the Alleluia?
The two days are Catholics required to fast (one full meal, two smaller meals)
What are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
This person helped Jesus carry his cross
Who is Simon of Cyrene?
Traditionally Lent last this many days
What is 40? (excluding Sundays) [or 46]
This prayer or song following the Act of Penitence is omitted during Lent
What is the Gloria?
The three traditional Lenten disciplines
What are Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving?
The number of times Jesus falls in the Stations of the Cross
What is three times?
The last Sunday before Easter
What is Palm Sunday?
Ashes used on Ash Wednesday are made from burning these from the previous year.
What are the blessed palms from Palm Sunday?
Fasting on fridays is in honor of this
What is Jesus' death on Good Friday?
Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus's entrance into this city
What is Jerusalem?
The third Sunday of Lent, which is a "joyful" break in the fast
What is Laetare Sunday?
Holy Thursday commemorates this night in Jesus's life
What is the Last Supper?
The last station of the 14 Stations of the Cross
What is Jesus is laid in the tomb?
"Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return" is taken from this book in the Bible
What is Genesis?