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Lent
Easter
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Words of Faith
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This day is the first day of Lent

What is Ash Wednesday?

100
This is a cross with an image of Jesus' body hanging from it. It symbolizes the sacrifice Jesus made by allowing Himself to be killed.
What is a crucifix?
100
This is the final week of Lent that begins on Palm Sunday and ends on Holy Saturday.
What is Holy Week?
100
An offense against God as well as against reason, truth, and conscience.
What is sin?
100
This is a pillar of Lent where we deny ourselves something we love, such as food.
What is fasting?
200
This is the carnival that takes place on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday to celebrate before the fasting and sacrifice of Lent.
What is Mardi Gras?
200

This is the number of days in the Easter Season

What is 50 days?

200

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, 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?

200

These were the laws revealed to Moses and the people of Israel that describe our relationship and duties to God, each other, and ourselves. 

What are the Ten Commandments?

200
This is a pillar of Lent where we talk to God about our own intentions and pray for those of others.
What is prayer?
300

This is the color of the Lenten season

What is purple?

300
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?
300

This is the day where Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a horse, 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?

300

These four people are known as the Gospels

Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

300
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 almsgiving?
400

This is the number of days in the Lenten season

What is 40 days?

400

This is the very last day of Easter

What is Pentecost?

400

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?

400

This Apostle doubted that Jesus had risen from the dead and said he would only believe it if he could touch his wounds himself

Who is Thomas?

400
This is not celebrated on Good Friday services
What is the Eucharist?
500

This is the symbol we wear on our forheads (given at church) on Ash Wednesday to show our repentance of sin.

What is an ashen cross?

500

This is the city where Jesus was crucified

What is Jerusalem?

500
This is the day when Jesus' body was entombed. The most important time is at sundown when we recognize the Easter Vigil.
What is Holy Saturday?
500
The Jewish holy day that celebrates God's leading the Israelites out of slavery into Egypt.
What is the Passover?
500
This is the reading of the Bible where we hear about Jesus' conviction and crucifixion.
What is the Passion?