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- 3. a habit or practice of goodness that helps us grow in love for God and others.
- 5. Before the Sacrament of Reconciliation, we should take time to examine our ____ to help us to know if we are growing in love for God and others.
- 6. During Lent we try to die to ___ and live in love
- 7. Ashes remind us that all things die and only Jesus is ________.
- 10. When the Last Supper ended, Jesus and the Apostles went here to pray.
- 12. the day we remember the Last Supper and Jesus' agony in the garden and his arrest
- 15. The three pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting, and ___.
- 16. On Holy Thursday, a priest washes the feet of 12 people to remind us that we should be a ____ to others like Jesus taught us.
- 21. Mystery the saving mystery of Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection
- 22. Jesus entered ___ on Palm Sunday.
- 23. Holy Wednesday is also called ___ Wednesday.
- 25. this day commemorates when Jesus overturned the money changers tables at the Temple in Jerusalem
- 27. at the Last Supper, Jesus was celebrating Passover and eating a ____ meal with his disciples
- 29. In the church, people are asked to abstain from eating __ on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays in Lent.
- 30. God has given us this sacrament to help us overcome sin.
- 32. The ashes for Ash Wednesday are made by burning blessed palms left over from last year's _____.
- 33. the church’s season of repentance and preparation for the joy of Easter
- 34. the day we remember Jesus' dying on the cross
- 35. The Lenten _________ begins on Ash Wednesday
- 37. The real reason why Catholics fast and abstain is to grow ___ in the love of God.
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- 1. eating very little
- 2. On Good Friday, Jesus clearly became our “Savior” or “ ___”
- 4. to do without something
- 8. The day we celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead
- 9. The ____ of the Cross on Good Friday is when we honor the cross by kissing it.
- 11. The Lenten journey begins with ____.
- 13. At the Easter vigil mass, the new Easter candle is lit to show that Christ is the ___ of the world.
- 14. One of the most important men to spread the news about Christ who wrote many letters to the early churches
- 17. Redeemer means ___.
- 18. On Holy Wednesday we recall when ___ decided to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
- 19. People fast because it is a good way of practicing _____.
- 20. a law made by the church
- 24. what the people waved to celebrate when Jesus entered Jerusalem
- 26. means "to watch"
- 27. The ____ of the Cross are pictures or statues that remind us of the important "stops" that occurred during Jesus' final hours.
- 28. means three days
- 31. a group of Jewish chief priests who made judgments about things having to do with religious laws
- 32. the Jewish Feast that remembers when the angel of death passed over their houses in Egypt
- 34. The church gives us six weeks or ___ days to prepare for Easter.
- 36. During Lent we remember how God liberated his people from slavery in ___.