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• Lent


  Tells us about the sufferings, death and resurrection of Jesus
• Lent


  • It is a season of sorrow and repentance
  • It is a 40-day prayer and repentance
• Lent


  The Christian season of preparation before Easter
• Lent


  • A time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation and spiritual discipline
• Purpose of Lent


  To set aside time for reflection on Jesus Christ- his suffering and his sacrifice, his life, death, burial and resurrection
• Purpose of Lent


  To reform ourselves and make us ready to celebrate better the Great Feast of the Lord's Resurrection
• Metanoia


  A willingness to change and establishing a new relationship with Him
• Basis of the 40 days of Lent

  • The 40 years of wandering by the Israelites
  • Our Lord's 40 days in the wilderness at which point He was tempted by Satan
• Three Pillars of Lent

  • Prayer
  • Fasting
  • Almsgiving
• Prayer


  Offers us a very special opportunity to grow in our relationship with God
• Fasting


  To choose to go without something, reminds us of our dependence on God and Jesus' sacrifices for us
• Almsgiving


  Performing an act of charity. What God gives us is all meant not for us to keep to ourselves, but to share with others, especially the poor
• Ash Wednesday


  • The first day of Lent
  • A time when we think about the things that have gone wrong in our lives and we try to mend them
  • Emphasizes our mortality and our need for ongoing repentance
• Catholics receive ashes on their forehead to remind them of their 'nothingness"
• Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other churches hold special services at which worshippers are marked with ashes as a symbol of death, and sorrow for sin
• Ash Wednesday


  Christians attend a special service where the priest makes the sign of the cross on the foreheads of worshippers while saying the words: 'Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel' or 'Remember you are dust and unto dust you shall return'
• The cross


  A sign that we are sorry for our sins
• The ash


  Comes from burning the Palm branches from the previous year
• Meaning of the marking of the forehead with a cross made of ashes

  • Death comes to everyone
  • We should be sad for our sins
  • We must change ourselves for the better
• God made the first human being by breathing life into dust, and without God, human beings are nothing more than dust
• Palm Sunday


  The triumphant entry of Jesus in Jerusalem
• Fasting


  • Eating only one full meal a day on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (18-80 years old)
• Abstinence


  • No eating of meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent (14-00 years old)
• Garden of Gethsemane


  The place where Jesus fasted for 40 days with Peter, James and John
• Caiaphas


  The high priest to whom Jesus was brought
• Barabbas


  The notorious thief
• Pontius Pilate


  The Roman Governor during Jesus' time, he was also responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus
• Golgotha/Calvary


  The Place of the Skull, the place near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
• Malchus


  The name of the soldier whose ear was struck
• Thomas


  The doubting apostle
• Judas Iscariot


  The betrayer
• Peter


  Denied Jesus for three times
• Simon of Cyrene


  The man who helped Jesus carry his cross
• The Last Supper


  The last meal of Jesus together with His apostles
• INRI


  The inscription placed on top of Jesus' cross (King of the Jews)
• Crucifixion


  The manner of execution by which Jesus died
• Good Friday


  The time & day when Jesus died
• Rolling Dice


  The manner by which Jesus' garments were divided among the Roman soldiers
• Stations of the Cross

  A series of prayers which remember Jesus' painful journey and death at the Calvary hill
• Pabasa


  The reading of the passion of the Lord