Ash Wednesday
Lent begins on this day.
What is Ash Wednesday?
The purpose of Lent.
What is to remember our sins/remember Jesus's sacrifice?
The day during Holy Week that represents the day Jesus died on the cross.
What is Good Friday?
The people who traveled with Jesus during his time on earth.
What are the 12 Disciples?
What is Easter?
Where a pastor gets the ashes to use during Ash Wednesday.
What are the palm branches from the previous year's Palm Sunday?
Things many people do during Lent (several options for answers).
What is fast, give something up or add something in?
This day is celebrated a week before Easter and is the day Jesus came into Jerusalem on a donkey. People were shouting "Hosanna."
What is Palm Sunday?
The number of days that passed between the time Jesus died and rose from the dead.
3 days
The official liturgical color of Lent.
What is purple?
The day right before Ash Wednesday when we are supposed to get rid of all the high fat food in our house. Many people eat pancakes on this day.
What is Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras?
Not eating for a period of time.
What is fasting?
The disciples did this while Jesus was in the garden praying the night he was arrested.
What is fall asleep?
The disciple who betrayed Jesus and turned him into the chief priests.
Who was Judas Iscariot?
We use Easter eggs to represent this.
What is new life/Jesus?
The number of days between Ash Wednesday and Easter.
40 days or 46 days (if you add the Sundays in).
Something that Catholics do not eat on Fridays during Lent.
What is meat?
We remember this event on Holy or Maundy Thursday, which is the Thursday during Holy Week.
What is communion?
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
Jesus did this for his disciples in the Upper Room on what we now call Holy Thursday (2 possible answers)
What is give them communion and wash their feet?
The shape made by the Pastor on your forehead or hand on Ash Wednesday.
What is a cross?
A popular snack food that originated during Lent because it contains only flour, water and salt.
What are pretzels?
When Jesus and the disciples were coming into Jerusalem they were going there to celebrate this very important Jewish Holiday.
What is Passover?
Jesus did this to an injured soldier who was one of the men who came to arrest him.
What is healed his ear?
The flower associated with Easter.
What is an Easter Lily?