Vocabulary
Lent
Liturgical Seasons
Triduum
Easter
100
to wait and watch
What is the definition of vigil?
100
40 days
How long does Lent last?
100
Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Times
What are the 5 liturgical seasons of the Catholic Church?
100
3 days
What does Triduum mean?
100
50 days
How long is the Easter season?
200
Sunday
What is the original Christian feast day?
200
Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday
When does Lent begin and end?
200
Christmas and Easter.
What are the 2 main liturgical seasons of the Church year?
200
Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil)
What 3 days does the Easter Triduum encompass?
200
The final day of the Easter Season.
What is Pentecost?
300
The belief that God has radically changed the universe through the paschal mystery of Jesus.
What is salvation?
300
A time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving and an opportunity to reaffirm our Baptism.
What is Lent?
300
To walk around the paschal mystery.
What does the liturgical year allow us to do?
300
Jewish people focus on resting and Christians focus on worship.
What is the difference between the Christian and Jewish Sabbath?
300
The Hebrew word for "spirit", "wind", or "breath"
What is ruah?
400
a time of learning about and reflecting on the mysteries of faith.
What is mystagogy?
400
A spiritual mark left by Baptism.
What is character?
400
A Lenten ritual in which Catholics walk the same path Jesus walked on his way to Calvary.
What are stations of the cross?
400
To remind us of what our life would be like without Jesus.
What is the significance of stripping the altar on Holy Thursday night and keeping it bare on Good Friday?
400
These are the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit.
What is wisdom, understanding, right judgement,courage, knowledge, reverence, wonder and awe.
500
newly initiated Christian.
What is a neophyte?
500
To bring a person into joyful union with God.
Why did the Old Testament people sacrifice animals to God and why do we give things up during Lent?
500
The reading of the passion and adoration of the cross.
What are the rituals associated with Good Friday?
500
It is the only day of the year we do not celebrate Mass.
What is significant about the Good Friday ceremony?
500
Scripture, Church's Liturgy, our own lives and experiences.
What are the 3 sources we receive our understanding of the Holy Spirit from.