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• Lent


  A forty-day liturgical season that initiates the most sacred part of the Christian year, especially to Catholics
• Lent

  1. Begins on Ash Wednesday

  2. Concludes on the Great Vigil of Easter
• Sundays are not part of the forty day count because every Sunday are a joyful celebration of the Lord's resurrection
• Lent

  Christians meditate on the great paschal mystery: passion, death and resurrection Jesus that he won for us
• Lent

  Comes from the Latin word "Quadragesima" or Spanish word "Cuaresma"
• The 3 Pillars of Lent

  • Prayer
  • Fasting
  • Almsgiving
• Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving


  Correlates to Jesus' three temptations in the Desert
• Lent for Filipinos

  Known as "Mahal na Araw"; More accurately "Banal na Araw"
• Sunog Sala


  1. A short rite that is done in the afternoon or evening of Tuesday before Ash Wednesday

  2. A rite wherein we admit our sinfulness while the old palm leaves are being burned
• Ash Wednesday


  • Comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of PENANCE and FASTING
  • Opens the season of Lent, a season of fasting and prayer
• Reasons for Ash Wednesday

  • It reminds us of our origin from the dust (mortality)
  • We'll return to dust but our soul is immortal
  • Sign of Repentance (metanoia), and Penance
  • A sign of Humility, creating space for God
  • Acceptance of our nothingness without God
  • A reminder that God created us all
  • A reminder of God's transforming power, from dust into human beings
  • A reminder that change/death is inevitable
  • A sign of our commitment to self-denial and radical Obedience to God's will
  • A sign of Hope in God's Love and Mercy
  • A sign that we begin the journey of LENT with the Blessed Trinity
• Imposition of the Ash

  • Old - "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return"
  • New - "Repent/Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel"
• Lenten Cross


  • Marks the continuity in the spiritual life of the faithful during the liturgical year
  • As the Advent Wreath is a preparation for the coming of Jesus, so then the Lenten Cross is a preparation for His resurrection
• What does the Lenten Cross teach us?

  • JESUS is the focus of the event during Lent
  • Sin will separate us from God
  • God showed his love to us
  • Forgiveness
• Things we shouldn't do during Lent

  • Don't use Lent as a weight loss regimen
  • Don't focus solely on self
  • Don't be rigid(strict) in our intentions
  • Don't hold up impossible standards
  • Don't fail to convert your intentions into positive outcomes
  • Don't simply do without for the sake of doing without
  • Don't make your Lenten intentions something temporary
• Holy Week Events

  • Ash Wednesday
  • Senakulo - reenactment of christ's passion and death
  • Palm Sunday - commemorates the triumphant entry of Jesus in Jerusalem, Donkey; Palm leaves
  • Pasyon/Pabasa - narrative singing of the Gospel
  • Washing of the Feet - symbolize passion and service, done every Holy Thursday
  • Station of the Cross - commemorates the different passions of Jesus Christ. (in on out the church
  • Seven Last Words - done to remember Jesus' last seven words
• Fasting and Abstinence


  • Fasting - to abstain from eating too much; to go hungry (for Catholics-18 yrs.old and above)
  • Abstinence - refraining from eating meat on Ash Wed. and Fridays of Lent
• Asphyxiation


  The cause of Jesus' death on the cross
• Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm


  Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews
• Gestas and Dismas

  • The two thieves that were crucified together with Jesus
  • Dismas - also known as the "Penitent Thief", "good thief", "grateful thief"
• The Seven Last Words of Jesus

  • Forgive them Father! They don't know what they are doing!
  • I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me.
  • Woman, here is your son; son here is your mother.
  • My God, my God, why did you abandon me.
  • I am thirsty.
  • It is finished.
  • Father, in your hands I entrust my spirit.
• Shroud of Turin

  • Kept since 1578
  • Burial linen of Christ
  • Approximate height of Jesus: 5'11
  • Blood type of Jesus: AB
  • Flagrum - a short handle used to scourge Christ; with two thongs tipped with the ankle bone of a sheep, a dumb bell shape
  • Patibulum - horizontal beam carried by Christ weighing 110-125 lbs. (57 kg.)
  • Golgotha - (Hebrew) mountain of cruxiçixion. "Calvus" in Latin, means skulls (Mt. of skulls)
  • Simon of Cyrene - a man destined to be a good Christian to help, carried the patibulum for Jesus, other religions believe he was crucified instead of Jesus
  • Space of Destot - a tiny spot between three bones
  • Joseph of Arimathea - the man who buried Jesus in his own new tomb, "secret disciple" of Jesus, believed to be the one who hid the chalice (Holy grail) used by Jesus
  • Wine, Myrrh, and Gall - the drink that was given to Jesus
  • Leptum - the coin that was used to cover the eyes of Jesus
• Salubong


  Christ and Mary meet - madaling araw
• Visita Iglesia


  From the word "Church visit", usually seven (7)
• Egg Hunting

  Egg symbolizes "LIFE"
• Paschal Mystery


  Means the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus
• Resurrection


  A person who lives again from the dead. the core Christian truth that God has raised Jesus from the dead
• Easter


  The resurrection of Jesus from the dead
• • Christ's Cross - symbolizes Jesus' universal love
  • Horizontal Bar(-) - symbolize Christ's arms embracing the whole world
  • Vertical Column (l) - points Jesus toward His Heavenly Father
  • Two Other Cross - shows Jesus' solidarity with the whole history of human sufferings
  • Crucified Body of Jesus - symbolize CHRISTIANITY
• (1) 7 Last Words

  Forgive them Father! They don't know what they are doing! 
• (2)

  I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me. 

  To Dismas
• (3)

  Woman, here is your son; son here is your mother. 

  mother/woman - Mary son - St. Joseph the Beloved
• (4)My God, my God, why did you abandon me.
• (4) My God, my God, why did you abandon me.
• (3) Woman, here is your son; son here is your mother.
• (2) I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me. 
• (1) Forgive them Father! They don't know what they are doing! 
• (5) I am thirsty. 
• (5) I am thirsty. 
• (6) It is finished.