6th - Religion Lent

Question 0

What is a prayer journey that helps us follow Christ as Christians?

Answer 0

A pilgrimage

Question 1

What is the entire season of Lent like?

Answer 1

A pilgrimage

Question 2

When we, Catholics and other Christians, receive ashes on Ash Wednesday it is a sign of what?

Answer 2

Both sorrow and hope

Question 3

What is the season of Lent a period of?

Answer 3

Preparation for Easter

Question 4

When does the season of Lent begin and end?

Answer 4

Begins Ash Wednesday and ends many weeks later on Holy Thursday.

Question 5

What words can be used to describe the season of Lent?

Answer 5

Absence and simplicity

Question 6

What is usually removed from the holy water and baptismal fonts in preparation for the Easter sacraments?

Answer 6

The water

Question 7

During the liturgy what is not done during the season of Lent?

Answer 7

1. Alleluia is not said or sung

2. Bells are not rung

Question 8

What is the color used in worship during Lent?

Answer 8

Dark purple

Question 9

What also maybe removed from the church during Lent?

Answer 9

Green plants and flowers

Question 10

What do all of these changes remind us of?

Answer 10

Our need to recommit ourselves to Christ and to the Church

Question 11

What do all of these changes help us do?

Answer 11

1. Prepare to renew our baptismal promises at Easter

2. To celebrate the new life Christ won for us

Question 12

What is the way we live during this season a sign of?

Answer 12

Absence and simplicity

Question 13

What Lenten practices are we called to follow?

Answer 13

1. Prayer
2. Fasting
3. Almsgiving

Question 14

What is Almsgiving?

Answer 14

Practicing works of compassion. Can be giving time, money, or goods to those in need

Question 15

What do we focus on during Lent?

Answer 15

God’s mercy and forgiveness

Question 16

What is Lent a good time to do?

Answer 16

Spend extra time in conversation with God

Question 17

What do many parishes do during Lent?

Answer 17

Gather for the Stations of the Cross and have special celebrations of the sacrament of Reconciliation

Question 18

What is a way to cleanse our bodies of harmful things and our hearts and minds of things that keep us from loving God and others?

Answer 18

Fasting

Question 19

What is a form the of penance?

Answer 19

Fasting

Question 20

What is one way to fast?

Answer 20

To give up things we enjoy, like a favorite food or activity

Question 21

When are Catholics of a certain age called to fast from food?

Answer 21

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday

Question 22

When are we called to give up meat during Lent?

Answer 22

Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Friday’s in Lent

Question 23

During Lent we also show special concern for whom?

Answer 23

Those in need - we follow Jesus example of providing for the hungry and caring for the sick

Question 24

In Lent, as always, we are traveling towards what?

Answer 24

The happiness of living forever with God

Question 25

Where is one of the most famous places to follow Jesus?

Answer 25

Is the land where he walked, or the Holy Land

Question 26

Since most people can’t travel to the Holy Land, what did the parish churches do?

Answer 26

They have Stations of the Cross

Question 27

What does the Stations of the Cross allow us to do?

Answer 27

Follow Jesus on his path from death to Resurrection. It lets everyone could do the pilgrimage

Question 28

What does the word station in Latin mean?

Answer 28

“Stopping point”

Question 29

In the parishes, usually how many statues, pictures, or crosses are placed along the walls of the church?

Answer 29

14

Question 30

What do we do at each station?

Answer 30

We stop, we remember, and we pray

Question 31

What do we usually pray at each station?

Answer 31

We adore you, O Christ,
and we bless you.
Because by your holy cross,
you have redeemed the world.