It's About Time | Yea or Nay | To Eat or Not to Eat | Holy Thursday | Mixed Bag |
---|---|---|---|---|
What is Ash Wednesday?
This is the day Lent begins.
|
True
Neither Ash Wednesday nor Good Friday are Holy Days of Obligation.
|
What are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?
These are the two obligatory days of fasting.
|
What is the Last Supper?
On Holy Thursday, we commemorate this event.
|
What is violet?
This is the liturgical color during Lent.
|
What is Holy Thursday?
This is the day on which Lent officially ends
|
True
Masses are not celebrated on either Good Friday or Holy Saturday.
|
What is abstinence?
This practice ordinarily is observed on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays during Lent.
|
What is the sacrament of Holy Communion?
Jesus established this sacrament on Holy Thursday.
|
What are the palms from the preceding Palm Sunday?
These are used to make the ashes given on Ash Wednesday.
|
What is 3 pm?
This is the traditional time of day for the beginning of Good Friday services.
|
False
Catholics are required to go to Confession at least once during the Lenten/Easter season.
|
What are Sundays?
No fasting or abstinence are ever required on these days of Lent which are considered miniature celebrations of Easter.
|
What is Passover?
Jesus and his disciples celebrated the Last Supper as a feast of this Jewish holiday.
|
What is the Holy Grail?
This cup Jesus used at the Last Supper is known by this name..
|
What is Palm Sunday?
This is the last Sunday of Lent.
|
True
You can wipe your ashes off immediately after Ash Wednesday Mass if you want to because there is no rule on how long you must wear them.
|
What is a dispensation?
When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday during Lent, you can still eat corned beef and Irish stew if your diocese gives you one of these.
|
What is the Easter Triduum?
This three-day event begins on Holy Thursday.
|
What is 50?
The Easter season runs from Easter Sunday to the Feast of Pentecost and lasts this number of days.
|
What is sunset on Holy Saturday?
This is the time of day that Easter day begins
|
False
The season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Thursday, lasts 40 days because Sundays are excluded.
|
What is a solemnity?
No fasting or abstinence is required when St. Joseph's Day falls on a Friday in Lent because his day is one of these.
|
What is the ministerial priesthood?
At the Last Supper, by saying, "Do this in memory of me", and by washing the disciples feet, Jesus instituted this.
|
What is Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross or Via Crucis?
The largest of these starts in the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday and proceeds to the Temple of Venus in the Roman Forum.
|