Church Calendar Crossword - using information on pages 17-21

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Across
  1. 2. The first season of the Church's year takes up most of this month.
  2. 6. This time when the priest wears green occurs twice in the Church's year.
  3. 7. This season prepares us for Christmas.
  4. 8. Another name for the Church's year.
  5. 10. People welcomed Jesus with these when he rode into Jerusalem.
  6. 11. On Holy Thursday Jesus washed his disciples’__ __ __ __ as a sign of arohanui (great love)and service.
  7. 12. The most important Christian festival and a time of great happiness.
  8. 14. This feast celebrates Jesus' birth.
Down
  1. 1. This period of forty days leading up to Easter gets its name from an old word meaning Spring.
  2. 3. The place where Hehu was born.
  3. 4. This day of the week is called good because it was the day Jesus gave his life for us.
  4. 5. This name is used to describe the week before Easter.
  5. 7. This feast forty days after Easter recalls Jesus leaving this world to return to God.
  6. 9. On the first day of Lent these are placed on Christians’ foreheads.
  7. 13. The date of Christmas was originally a Roman __ __ __ festival.