Shrovetide

1. "Gras" means ____ in French.
2. What we must do to turn our hearts back to God and make up for the temporal punishment due to our sins.
4. Lent is ___ days.
6. Fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday is currently the bare ____ required of us by the Church. Fasting is a virtue, and penance something we must do to be saved, which need more from us than these two days a year.
7. Lent begins on Ash ____.
9. A common substitute for Friday dinners.
12. Lent prepares us for ___ when we will celebrate our redemption in Christ's Resurrection.
13. Lent is the Church's imitation of Christ's fasting for forty days in the ____ .
14. The day before Ash Wednesday when we finish up all the animal fats before fasting begins.
15. "Mardi" means ____ in French.

1. Not eating so as to train your appetites to follow reason.
3. Another part of penance is ___ where we practice being generous to others.
5. Traditionally you would only eat ___ meal after 3 pm each day during Lent.
6. What the Church obliges us to not eat on Fridays during Lent.
8. The time before Lent when we confess our sins and prepare to do penance.
10. Latin for "Lent" or "Forty."
11. Fasting helps us to ___ and put on mind first on God instead of created things.
16. "You are ___ and to ___ you shall return."