Ash Monday
This day marks that there are 50 days until Easter and begins the Lenten season.
What is Ash Monday?
This is a crown that was placed upon Jesus' head.
What is a crown of thorns?
This is the final week of Lent that begins on Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturday.
What is Holy Week?
An offense against God as well as against reason, truth, and conscience.
What is sin?
The entrance into Great Lent marks the wedding in this location.
What is Cana?
This is without the figure of Christ crucified--reminds Christians of Jesus' victory over death and the new life and hope this victory brings to believers.
What is a cross?
This is the day when we remember Jesus' death and crucifixion. We attend mass to listen to the Passion. On this day, Jesus was taken into Roman courts, before Pontius Pilate and Herod Antipas, who sent him back to the Jewish court. Roman soldiers took him to Golgotha, the place of the skull, where he was crucified.
What is Good Friday?
This is a pillar of Lent where we talk to God about our own intentions and pray for those of others.
What is prayer?
Catholics are expected to _____ on this day. This means abstain from meat and on certain days, eat smaller meals.
What is fast?
This represents Jesus as "the Light of the World." Many churches extinguish these on their altars on Good Friday to show that Jesus' light has gone out. It is relit on Easter Sunday to represent Jesus' return to life.
What is a candle?
This is the day where Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, 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?
A gift from God that helps you know the difference between right and wrong helps you choose what is right.
What is conscience?
This is a pillar of lent where we give aide to those in need. This can be through money or donating our time.
What is charity?
"By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for ____ you are and to ____ you will return." Genesis 3:19
What is dust?
This represents Jesus and relates His death to that of this sacrificed on the first Passover. Christians traditionally refer to Jesus as "the _____ of God."
What is the lamb?
On this day, Jesus washed the feet of the disciples and celebrated the Feast of the Passover, instituting the Sacrament of Holy Communion. After the supper, Jesus and his disciples went to Gethsemane to pray, where he was arrested by the Temple guard and taken to an illegal night session of the Jewish court, the Sanhedrin.
What is Holy Thursday?
Laws that directed the Israelites' how to live.
What is the 10 commandments?
This is not celebrated on Good Friday services
What is the Eucharist?
The large, pure white blossoms remind Christians of the pure new life that comes to them through the Resurrection of Jesus.
What is an Easter Lilly?
This is the day when Jesus' body was entombed.
What is Holy Saturday?
The Father of Nations
Who is Abraham?
Celebrates the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem.
What is Palm Sunday?