Ash Wednesday and Lent

What are the 3 pillars of Lent?

• Prayer, Fasting, Giving Alms

• Sacrifice, Prayer, and Abstinence

• Fasting, Abstinence, Prayer

• Sacrifice, Abstinence, Alms Giving

When does Lent begin?

• Palm Sunday

• Ash Wednesday

• When it's a full moon

• The first Sunday after Ash Wednesday

What color does the priest wear during Lent?

• Red

• White

• Pink

• Purple

What are ashes considered?

• A sacrament

• A blessing

• A sacramental

• Catholic

Abstinence is

• fasting

• making a sacrifice

• not eating meat

• only on As Wednesday

Fasting is

• eating less: 2 smaller meals and 1 regular meal--no snacking

• giving up meat

• the same as abstinence

• on every Friday

Fasting is supposed to be done on

• Every Friday of Lent

• Good Friday

• Ash Wednesday

• Good Friday and Ash Wednesday

Abstinence must be observed on

• Every Friday in Lent

• Ash Wednesday, every Friday in Lent, and all other Fridays (unless some other sacrifice is made)

• Ash Wednesday

  and Good Friday

Objects or actions that the Church uses to remind us of the sacraments, in order to bring us closer to God

• sacraments

• petitions

• Mass

• Sacramental

Select ALL that apply. Examples of sacramentals

• prayers

• rosaries

• Mass

• statues