Ash Wednesday
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?
When are Catholics required to fast during Lent?
What is Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
What characterizes prayer in the New Testament because of the resurrection of Christ?
What is hope?
Which Gospel is this parable in?“The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.’”
What is Luke?
Which Gospel writer emphasizes the action of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' prayer?
Who is Luke?
"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?
What is the difference between fasting and abstinence?
What is fasting is giving up food while abstinence is refraining from eating meat
What basic form of prayer is the appropriate human response to God's gifts? a) petition b) blessing or c) intercession
What is blessing?
Who said that fasting and almsgiving are “the two wings of prayer” which enable it to gain momentum and more easily reach even to God? Was it St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom or St. Gregory the Great
Who is St Augustine?
What parable of Jesus perhaps best describes the process of conversion and the merciful love of the Father?
What is the Prodigal Son?
This is the symbol we wear to show our repentance of sin.
What is an cross of ashes?
What is before 18 and after 59 years of age.
What is the great Christian prayer of thanksgiving and also called the sacrifice of praise?
What is the Eucharist?
What is the theme of the Arlington Diocese Bishop Lenten Appeal?
What is Abounding in Hope?
What teaching of Jesus given in St. John's Gospel is too difficult for some of the disciples?
What is the "My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink"
What day does Ash Wednesday fall on?
What is 46 days before Easter Sunday
At what age is abstinence obligatory for Catholics?
What is age 14?
The prayer of the rosary substituted for what prayer in the medieval ages? a) the psalms b)the liturgy of the hours c) the eucharist
What is the liturgy of the hours?
What saint divided his military cloak with a sword and gave it to a beggar who then appeared to him as Christ in his dream?
Who is St. Martin
What were the words of the blind man who called out to Jesus for help and which are also known today as the Jesus prayer?
What is "Jesus, son of Davis, have mercy on me?"
What is the significance of ashes in the Catholic tradition?
What is Repentance and Mortality
What does the code of Cannon Law 1251 say about abstinence from meat on Fridays not in Lent?
What is Abstinence from meat, or from some other food, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday.
What attitude is not characteristic of the Psalms? a) simplicity b) tribulation c) grief d) despair
What is despair?
What anniversary is it this year for Operation Rice Bowl?
what is 50th
What does hodoghitria mean in reference to Mary?
What is the sign showing the way?