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How Well Do You Know Lent?
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Mardi Gras is also known as...?
Penitential Tuesday
Vibrant Tuesday
Festive Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday
During what part of the liturgical year do churches place veils over the statues and crucifixes in their church?
Eventide
Pentecost
Passiontide
Ash Wednesday
Why is it okay to eat fish on Fridays during Lent?
Fish doesn’t taste the same as meat, so it isn’t a meat
Fish was a poor person's food in Christ's time
Fish is cold blooded, not warm blooded
Red meat was believed to drive people to sin
In countries that don’t have access to palm leaves, what plant is commonly used instead?
Pussywillow
Fiddle-leaf Fig
Gunnera
Papaya Tree leaves
What does the church use to make ashes on Ash Wednesday?
Wood
Palm Leaves
Donated cloth
Incense
How many days are there between Ash Wednesday and Easter?
44
40
39
46
Alongside the institution of the Eucharist as the body and blood of Christ, Holy Thursday institutes:
Mary as our mother
Reconciliation
The liturgical year
Priesthood
Who first referred to the Stations of the Cross as “stations”?
William Wey
St. Francis
Scott Hahn
Pope Clement XII
What does the word “Lent” mean?
Spring
Lengthen
Penance
Fast
In 900 A.D. Germany, the option for a Catholic to contribute to an act of piety in exchange for the right to consume dairy during Lent was called what?
Butterbriefe
Molkerei
Freundlichkeit
Vachebien
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