Easter Flashcards
What is involved in an Easter Protestant service?
Paschal candle: God = beginning and end
(Alpha and omega), passes form death to life, Jesus as light of the world, emphasises resurrection
Reading from crucifixion
Cross with nails
Focuses on sin & salvation
What’s involved in a Roman catholic Easter service
3pm lords passion
Remember crucifixion
Read the trial and crucifixion
Stand to show respect
Decorations are covered
‘Kiss’ the cross
Veneration of the cross
Bread and wine shared
No bells, flowers or incense
What are the days of the Holy Week?
Palm Sunday ~> enters Jerusalem
Shrove Tuesday
Ash Wednesday
Maundy Thursday ~> last supper
Good Friday ~> crucifixion
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday ~> resurrection
What is lent?
40 days giving something up
Jesus tempted by satan in the desert
How and why is Palm Sunday celebrated?
Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey
Crowds wave palm branches
Shout ‘hosanna’ meaning praise
Children given palm leaves woven into small crosses
What does Jesus do to the disciples on Maundy Thursday
Washed their feet as an act of service
What will the priest say on Easter Sunday? What does it remember, how does it celebrate
‘He is risen’
Congregation replies ‘he is risen indeed’
Jesus’ resurrection
Joyful
Meaning of maundy
Covenant/commandment
Difference between the Eucharist, the last supper, holy communion and mass
Eucharist: Anglican, means thanksgiving or gratitude
The Last Supper: Protestant, Baptist, emphasis on the end of Jesus’ life as well as his sacrifice for salvation, remembrance
Holy Communion: Protestant, Baptist, sense of community, holy suggests divinity, remember sacrifice, individual bread/wafers and cups, kneel at the alter
Mass: Roman Catholic, one cup shared, veneration of the cross, remembrance
What symbols are there of Easter
Palm crosses – crosses made out of palm leaves, used on Palm Sunday to remember Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey when people waved palm branches
Candles – represent that Christ is the light of the world
Paschal candle – a special, large candle that is lit on Easter Sunday and kept lit until Pentecost (50days after Easter); it often has the first and last Greek letters Alpha and Omega on it to show Jesus as being the ‘beginning and the end’ of all things.
Eggs – painted or chocolate – these represent new life (resurrection) – they are hollow like the empty tomb
The Cross – a reminder of the sacrifice Christ made to save humans from sin and offer them salvation.
How is Maundy Thursday celebrated? What does it remember?
Somber service, xians should be servants to one another, wash the feet of the congregation like Jesus did for the disciples
The last supper (love one another as I have loved you)(this is my body, and this is my blood)
Jesus’ arrest and trial
What does Good Friday remember? How is it celebrated
Most somber service, christs sacrifice
Procession where someone may carry a cross
“It is finished”
Jesus’ crucifixion
