Ash Wednesday Basics
This season of the Church year begins on Ash Wednesday.
A: What is Lent?
Lent prepares us to celebrate this most important Christian feast.
What is Easter?
Catholics often pray this set of beads more during Lent.
What is the Rosary
Catholics aged 14 and older are asked to abstain from this food on Fridays during Lent.
What is meat?
The Sunday before Easter, when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey.
What is Palm Sunday?
Ash Wednesday is how many days before Easter (not counting Sundays)?
What is 40 days?
The color most associated with Lent, symbolizing penance and preparation.
What is purple?
This devotion, often prayed on Fridays during Lent, walks through Jesus’ suffering and death.
What are the Stations of the Cross?
What does fasting mean?
What is Eating less or giving up food?
On this Thursday, we remember the Last Supper.
What is Holy Thursday?
The ashes used on Ash Wednesday come from burning these from last year’s celebration.
What are palms from Palm Sunday?
Lent is a season focused on prayer, fasting, and this third practice.
What is almsgiving?
Jesus teaches us how to pray in this prayer that begins with “Our Father…”
What is the Lord’s Prayer?
Fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday means eating this number of full meals.
What is one full meal?
This day commemorates Jesus’ crucifixion and death.
What is Good Friday?
When ashes are placed on your forehead, the priest says this phrase reminding us of our origin.
What is “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”?
The 40 days of Lent remind us of the 40 days Jesus spent here.
What is the desert?
This sacrament is especially encouraged during Lent for forgiveness of sins.
What is the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)?
Why do Catholics fast during Lent?
What is "To grow closer to God and prepare for Easter"
The celebration of Jesus rising from the dead.
What is Easter Sunday?
Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and this other penitential practice involving not eating meat.
What is abstinence?
Lent is a time to turn away from sin; another word for this is this “R” word.
What is repentance?
The night before He died, Jesus prayed in this garden.
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
Fasting helps train this “virtue muscle” that helps us say no to sin.
What is self-control? (accept discipline)
The Last Supper is the first celebration of this sacrament.
What is the Eucharist?