Lent by the numbers
Length of days in the season of Lent
What is 40 days?
Recommended activities during Lent
What are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?
and/or abstinence, repentance for sins, reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Lenten is preparation for this feast.
What is Easter?
The name for the Sunday marking the halfway point of Lent
What is Laetare Sunday?
This prophet speaks of releasing those bound unjustly, setting free the oppressed, clothing the naked, and not turning your back on your own
Who is the prophet Isaiah?
The number of days between Ash Wednesday and Easter
What is 46 days?
The practice of not eating meat by anyone older than 14 on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent.
What is abstinence?
Those who are welcomed into the church go through this process.
What is RCIA (Rite of Christian Initation of Adults/Children)?
An alternative name for Holy Thursday
What is Maundy Thursday?
The second week of Lent begins with Jesus taking Peter, James, and John up a high mountain with him
What is the transfiguration?
What is the Triduum?
The practice of only eating 1 full meal and two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal by those age 18- 59.
What is fasting?
This liturgical celebration involves a procession
What is Palm or Passion Sunday?
or What is the Rite of Sending?
or What is Holy Thursday?
5th Sunday of Lent once marked the beginning of this part of Lent.
What is Passiontide?
In this Ash Wednesday Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus instructs his apostles to do this when they pray and fast
What is go into your inner room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret and
do not look gloomy...but anoint your head and wash your face?
What are 14? or What are 15?
The practice of saying you're sorry to someone you hurt is an example of this Lenten practice.
What is a penitential practice?
These liturgies involve sacramentals or "props"
What are Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, the Great Easter Vigil.
These parts of the Mass are omitted during Lent
What are the Gloria and the Alleluia?
The number of readings at the Great Easter Vigil
What is 9--7 from the Hebrew scriptures, 1 from the New Testament, and a Gospel reading?
The two titles given to the Sunday which begins Holy Week
What are Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday?
Participation in Operation Rice Bowl, serving at the Gospel Mission, or bringing in towels or sheets for the Aleman Center are examples of this practice
What is almsgiving?
These 3 sacraments are normally conferred at the Easter Vigil
What are Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist?
The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is known as this
What is Mardi Gras?
or What is Shrove Tuesday?
or What is Fat Tuesday?
The first reading at the Great Easter Vigil from the book of Genesis describes this
What is the story of creation?