Lent, Triduum, and Easter

2. Festival books, green, a nuisance to carry
3. passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
5. gave Jesus a cloth
7. Most famous betrayer
10. Memorial site
12. 40 days during which Christians remember the events leading up to and including the death of Jesus Christ,
13. Jewish high priest in the New Testament; son-in-law of Annas
18. Taking Lord's name in vain
19. Friday before Easter
20. Word before "smokes" or "mackerel"
21. The garden in Jerusalem in which Christ was betrayed on the night before his Crucifixion
23. Joining ritual; beginning
25. he period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday
26. acronym for Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
29. Twelve men of the New Testament
32. Thursday before easter
33. Ten days before Pentecost
34. Dinner for thirteen
35. A journey to a sacred place
36. Church doctrine concerning the Eucharist
37. Religious court had sinner converted
38. Abstaining from food
39. Prayer before eating

1. Christian term for the seven days preceding Easter Sunday
4. the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance
6. The Sunday before Easter
8. ___ Sunday, Christian feast day that occurs a week after Palm Sunday
9. Roman governor who crucified Christ
11. Forty-day lead-up to Easter
14. The beginning of Lent
15. Festival celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
16. Simon of ___ , man compelled to carry the cross of Jesus before the crucifixion
17. There will be 14 stations on this ride
22. Christian sacrament of bread and wine
24. Period of three days' observance, eg at Easter
27. Generosity
28. The first person to see Christ after the Resurrection
30. Invocation to a god
31. Rising from the dead