Religion: Easter Flashcards
Shrove Tuesday
Comes from English word “shriving”, meaning to listen to someones sins and forgive them
Mardi Gras
French for “Fat Tuesday”
A reference to the fact that Mardi Gras is always the day before Ash Wedesday
Carnival
Spanish for Carnaval, celebrated as last day before lent
Food Eaten on Shrove Tuesday?
Pancakes- a day of indulgence and uses up many of the dairy products that are likely to go bad during lent
Food Eaten on Mardi Gras?
King Cake- decorated with purple, green, and gold sugar. Purple represents justice, green represents faith, and gold represents power.
Dirty Rice- symbolizes mixture of sins with purity that Jesus died to cleanse
Food Eaten on Carnivale?
Feijoada-pork and beans with rice. Moqueca Baiana-fragrant fish stew. Bradeiros- chocolate truffles made with condensed milk and cocoa
Days in lent in liturgical season
40
Why are there more than 40 days in lent in the linear calendar
Because Sundays are not counted towards the number of days
First and last days of lent?
Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday
3 Disciplines of Lent
Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
Fasting
Eating one full meal in a day
Abstaining
Noot eating meat in a day
How is the date for Easter determined?
(1st Sunday after the 1st Full Moon after the Equinox {equal night)} )-Mar 21st)
Chapel vs Church
Chapel- no priest or permanent congregation. Typically attached to a larger establishment (school, business, etc.) and smaller.
Church-its own establishment with permanent priest and congregation.
Altar
Table where bread and wine are consecrated at mass.
Corpus
Body in Latin. Corpus Christi is body of Christ.
Cross
a line intersected by a perpendicular line
Crucifix
Cross with Jesus’ body on it.
Lectern/Pulpit
Place where Bible with reading for mass is located.
Sanctuary
Area at the front of the Church with altar and cross.
Sanctuary Lamp
Lit when Blessed Sacrament is in tabernacle.
Tabernacle
Place where Blessed Sacrament goes.
Advent Color
Purple-y Blue
Lent Color
Purple
Christmas/Easter Color
Yellow/Gold
Ordinary Time Color
Blue/Green
Triduum
Evening of Holy Thursday to evening of Easter Sunday
Triduum Days
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday
What Color is Triduum on calendar?
Red/Maroon
Holy Thursday
Last supper-Jesus breaks break with disciples, breaks bread with them, and is betrayed by Judas
Good Friday
Crucifixtion and death of Jesus
Holy Saturday
Jesus’ friends and disciples mourn him
Easter Sunday
Jesus is resurrected
