Shrovetide

2. "Gras" means ____ in French.
4. "You are ___ and to ___ you shall return."
9. Lent prepares us for ___ when we will celebrate our redemption in Christ's Resurrection.
10. The day before Ash Wednesday when we finish up all the animal fats before fasting begins.
11. Fasting helps us to ___ and put on mind first on God instead of created things.
12. What the Church obliges us to not eat on Fridays during Lent.
13. What we must do to turn our hearts back to God and make up for the temporal punishment due to our sins.
15. 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.
17. The time before Lent when we confess our sins and prepare to do penance.
18. Traditionally you would only eat ___ meal after 3 pm each day during Lent.

1. Not eating so as to train your appetites to follow reason.
3. "Mardi" means ____ in French.
5. A common substitute for Friday dinners.
6. Latin for "Lent" or "Forty."
7. Lent is the Church's imitation of Christ's fasting for forty days in the ____ .
8. Lent begins on Ash ____.
14. Another part of penance is ___ where we practice being generous to others.
16. Lent is ___ days.