Color Me Beautiful
This day requires red paraments.
What is Pentecost?
The meaning of the Greek root of "Epiphany."
What is revelation?
This season is called The Great Fifty Days.
What is Easter?
On this day, the Church remembers those who have died the previous year.
What is All Saints Day?
This is the day on which Epiphany falls.
What is January 6th?
This is the white candle in the Advent Wreath.
What is the Christ candle?
This is the Latin for a "lectionary."
What is lectio selecta?
This is the longest period of the liturgical calendar.
What is Ordinary Time (or the Season after Pentecost)?
The only liturgical day focused specifically on a doctrine.
What is Trinity Sunday?
On this day, Good Shepherd Sunday, serves as a hinge between Easter's focus on the resurrection and Jesus' departure.
What is the Fourth Sunday of Easter?
Ordinary Time is indicated by this color of paraments.
What is green?
The names of both of these seasons derive from words meaning "spring."
What are Lent and Easter?
These two days both were traditionally celebrated with three masses.
What are Christmas and Easter?
The First Sunday in Lent focuses on this story.
What is the temptation of Jesus?
This event in the story of Jesus was traditionally celebrated on August 6 and/or the Second Sunday in Lent but was moved by Protestants to the Last Sunday in Epiphany.
What is the Transfiguration?
This paraments for this season are either violet or blue.
What is Advent?
The original unitive celebration of Christ's passion and resurrection.
What is Pascha?
Ordinary Time is named for this.
What are ordinal numbers?
The Second and Third Sundays in Lent traditionally focus on this person.
Who is John the Baptist?
The church year is an ellipse that cycles around these two central liturgical celebrations.
What are Christmas and Easter?
The original color used for both Advent and Lent.
What is black?
This time period involves Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.
What is the Triduum?
We do not fast on Sundays in Lent because every Sunday is this.
What is a "little Easter" or "day of resurrection"?
It is traditional in Lent to refrain from speaking or singing this word.
What is "Alleluia"?
This group argued that Easter should fall on the 14th day of Nisan in Jewish calendar.
Who are the Quartodecimans?
In this service candles are extinguished one by one as the final scenes in Jesus' passion and death are read, leaving the worship space in darkness.
What is Tenebrae?
The name for the Third Sunday of Advent means "rejoice."
What is Gaudete Sunday?
Although these three days do not necessarily fall on a Sunday, lazy Protestants usually move them to a Sunday.
What is Epiphany, Ascension, and All Saints? (Also acceptable, Reformation Sunday.)
The liturgical year both begins and ends with this theological emphasis?
What is eschatology?
The formula by which the date of Easter is determined.
What is the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon following the vernal equinox (set as March 21)?