2025 Lenten Gospels
"C" ities
Japanese Anime and Kaiju
Saint PI "-US" 6
S "C" IENCE TERMS
800

Fifth Sunday of Lent: the Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery to Jesus and say the Law of Moses indicated she should be stoned.  They ask for Jesus's opinion, and he says this.

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone at her."

800

It is the capital of the U.S. state immediately north of Colorado.

CHEYENNE  (WYOMING)

800

In the Dragon Ball anime series, a Dragon Ball Set has this many spherical orbs;  collecting all of the set allows one to summon a dragon.

SEVEN

800

Weighing three times as much as a polar bear, this Arctic marine mammal has canine teeth that become huge tusks.

WALRUS

800

In physical science, this word refers to a material through which heat or electricity can flow easily.

CONDUCTOR

1200

Third Sunday of Lent: Jesus tells a parable of a person who tells his gardener to chop down a tree that has not produced fruit for three years, but the gardener convinces him to give it one more year of cultivation.  What type of tree was it?

A  FIG  TREE.

1200

As of 2020, it is the most populous city in New Mexico that fits the category.  It is in the eastern half of our state.

CLOVIS

1200

In the landmark anime movie Princess Mononoke, the female warrior Ashitaka tries to save the forest from human destruction.  She is aided by two brothers, both of whom are large versions of this animal.

WOLF   (WOLVES)

1200

A device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text and drawings into a computer or touch-sensitive screen.

STYLUS

1200

In biology, these are structures within cells that carry genetic information in the form of DNA, organized into genes.  Humans have 23 pairs of them.

CHROMOSOMES

1600

First Sunday of Lent: Jesus returns from the desert after 40 days, and the devil tempts him by saying if he truly is the Son of God, command this stone to do this.

BECOME  BREAD

1600

It is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and has an NHL team and a Canadian Football League team.

CALGARY

1600

In the movie Godzilla Minus One, the remnants of the Japanese navy use freon gas to try and kill Godzilla by this method.

Sinking Godzilla to the bottom of the ocean (crushing him)

[2nd]  Raising him from ocean depths quickly for explosive decompression

1600

An organism that usually reproduces by spores or budding;  each is a member of a biological kingdom other than animals, plants, or bacteria.

FUNGUS

1600

In chemistry, to make stainless steel, more than 10% of the metal content must be this shiny metal that is highly resistant to corrosion.  It's chemical symbol is Cr.

CHROMIUM