Bible History
Vocabulary
Traditions
The Numbers Game
Holy Week
Food
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Jesus went here to fast for 40 days, then the devil came to tempt him.
What is the dessert/wildnerness. (Mount of Temptation (or Mount Quarantania), located northwest of Jericho. This steep, rocky mountain overlooking the Jordan Valley)
100
To go without food or drink for a period of time.
What is Fasting?
100
Color the priest wear most days during Lent.
What is Purple ?
100
The number of days in the Lenten period of fasting.
What is 40?
100
The Sunday that marks the beginning of Holy Week.
What is Palm Sunday?
100
These salty, twisted treats were originally shaped like arms crossed in prayer.
What are Pretzels?
200
Other than the number of days Jesus fasted in the desert, name another time the number 40 appears in the Bible.
- Genesis 7:4: Rain falls for 40 days and nights (Noah).
- Exodus 16:35: Israelites wander the dessert and eat manna for 40 years.
- Exodus 24:18: Moses stays on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights.
- 1 Kings 19:8: Elijah journeys for 40 days to Horeb.
- Matthew 4:2: Jesus fasts for 40 days and nights in the wilderness.
- Acts 1:3: Jesus appears to disciples for 40 days after resurrection.
200
This word means to not eat meat (during Lent)
What is abstinence?
200
The three "pillars" of Lent: Prayer, Fasting, and ________.
What is almsgiving (donating to the poor)?
200
The total number of Stations of the Cross.
What is 14?
200
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and official ends on this day.
What is Holy Thursday?
200
This "Fat" day is the final celebration before Ash Wednesday begins.
What is Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday?
300
Said during the spreading of ashes on Ash Wednesday, when God said to Adam, after eating from the forbidden fruit:
"By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for ____ you are and to ____ you will return." Genesis 3:19
What is dust?
300
This festival, celebrated before Lent throughout the world, derives from the Latin word meaning to remove meat.
What is Carnival? from the Latin carne levare ("to remove meat")
300
On Holy Thursday, the priest performs this act to mimic Jesus’ service to the Apostles.
What is Washing the Feet?
300
The number of silver pieces Judas received for betraying Jesus.
What is 30?
300
This practice is not celebrated on Good Friday
Holy Eucharist (Mass)
300
Can you eat Alligator on Friday in lent?
Yes because it is a cold blood animal. Tradition of abstaining from "Carne" refers to meat of warm blooded animals. As Jesus gave his flesh for us, we abstain from flesh to honor him.
400
The name of the hill where the crucifixion took place (also called "The Place of the Skull").
Waht is Golgotha?
400
The name for the fourth Sunday of Lent, which allows for rose-colored vestments and a "break" in penance.
What is Laetare Sunday?
400
The ashes used on Ash Wednesday come from these burned items.
What are Palms (from the previous year’s Palm Sunday)?
400
Age when you need to start abstaining from meat during Lent and age you need to start fasting (2).
What is 14 and 18?
400
The Latin name for the three-day period from Holy Thursday to Easter.
What is the Triduum?
400
This fast-food sandwich was actually invented by a Cincinnati franchise owner because his Catholic customers couldn't eat hamburgers on Fridays.
What is the Filet-O-Fish?
500
The person was the first to discover the empty tomb on Easter morning.
Who is Mary Magdalene
500
The meaning of the words that Jesus said on the cross when he was about to die: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.
What is My God, my God, why have you forsaken/abandoned me?
Psalm 22: King David saying:
But you, Lord, do not be far from me.
You are my strength; come quickly to help me.
I will declare your name to my people;
in the assembly I will praise you.
You who fear the Lord, praise him!
500
Two hymns that are not sung in Mass during Lent.
What is the Alleluia and Gloria?
500
The number of Calendar Days in lent
What is 46 (40 days of fasting + 6 Sundays that are feast days)?
500
These three oils are blessed during Holy Thursday for the year.
What is?
-Oil of the Sick (OI): Used in the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick
-Oil of Catechumens (OC): Used for those preparing for baptism.
-Holy Chrism (SC): Used in baptism, confirmation, ordination of priests/bishops, and the consecration of altars and churches
500
This Japanese food derives from the Latin phrase "ad tempora quadragesima" or "during the time of Lent" when Portugese Jesuit Missionaries in the 1500s needed meatless food for fasting days so they fried battered vegetables in oil.
What is tempura?
Portugese Jesuit Missionaries in the 1500s needed meatless food for fasting days so they fried battered vegetables in oil.