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Fasting
Roots
Practices
Stations of the Cross
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These are days during Lent during which we should not fast
What are Sundays? (Note: also, solemnities - special feast days. During Lent the solemnities are: St. Joseph's Feast Day and the Annunciation)
100
Lent prepares us for this event
What is Easter (or Christ's Resurrection). (Note: Lent allows us to share in his suffering and to receive his resurrection more fully!)
100
This is the meaning of the color purple used during Lent
What is repentance?
100
This woman wiped the face of Jesus on his way to Calvary
Who is Veronica?
200
The special fast Catholics observe on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (in addition to no meat)?
What is one full meal and two smaller meals that together do not equal a full meal?
200
This is what the Israelites had to put on their doorposts so the Angel of Death would pass over them during the 10th plague in Egypt.
What is blood? (note: blood of an unblemished, male lamb)
200
This is the meaning of almsgiving
What is giving to those in need?
200
This man was forced to help Jesus carry his cross
Who is Simon the Cyrene?
300
This is why Catholics traditionally "give-up" or "take-on" something during Lent.
Many acceptable answers. What is to grow in Christ? What is to share in Christ's fasting in the desert? By denying ourselves something we enjoy, we discipline our wills so that we are not slaves to our pleasures. Lent is a particular time of growth and renewal.
300
This event from Jesus' life is the primary reason Lent is 40 days long (and not some other duration).
What is the Temptation in the Desert? (Or Temptation in the Wilderness or 40 days in the Desert)
300
These three practices are the pillars of Lent
What are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
300
There are this many stations in the devotion Stations of the Cross
What is 14?
400
This is why Catholics abstain from meat
What is to give up something we like to remember Christ’s passion and death. (Meat was a special food for a long time. Fish was easier to come by).
400
These two *Old Testament* events contain durations of 40 days or 40 years. (there are a total of 5, only need to name 2)
(1) What are: the Exodus (40 years), (2) Moses receiving 10 commandments, (3) The Great Flood (Noah), (4) Jonah told Ninevah they had 40 days to repent, (5) Elijah's journey to Horeb or Mt Sinai.
400
This prayer of the mass is removed during Lent
What is the Gloria?
400
This rich man asked Pilate for the body of Jesus and purchased his tomb
Who is Joseph of Arimathea?
500
This is why Catholics fast on Friday and not another day of the week
What is the death of Jesus? (on Friday)
500
The three ways Satan tempted Jesus during his 40 days in the desert
What are: turning stone to bread, throwing himself off a building, and having power over all kingdoms?
500
This is the reason Lent begins and ends at different times each year
What is the moon cycle. (Easter changes dates every year as it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon in the northern hemisphere's Spring time. This is because Easter corresponds to the Feast of Passover, which follows the full moon. Jesus is the new passover lamb.)
500
Jesus falls this many times during the Stations
What is 3?