1. Lent and Easter Notes

2. Lent Lent is a 7 week period (40 days) before Easter
It is our time to remember the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
For Catholics, it’s the holiest time of the year
It is also a time for us to make a conversion
(taking the good in our lives and making it better or changing from a sinful life to a holy life.)

3. Lent Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent
We receive ashes to remind us that we came from dust and will return to dust after our death

4. Lent During Lent we are asked to make sacrifices
On Ash Wednesday and Good Friday we must fast (eat only one full meal) and abstain (no meat)
We must abstain from meat on all Fridays during Lent
These rules apply to people between the ages of

5. Holy Week The last week of Lent is called Holy Week
The important events of this week are:
Palm Sunday:
Jesus rides to Jerusalem in a triumphant parade. The people shower him with Palm leaves
Spy Wednesday:
Judas arranges to betray Jesus with 30 pieces of silver

6. Holy Week Holy Thursday: The Last Supper
Jesus and Apostles have supper together
Jesus gives us the sacraments of Holy Eucharist, Reconciliation, and Holy Orders
Crowning with thorn
Peter denies Jesus three times

7. Holy Week Good Friday Easter Saturday (Easter Vigil)
Jesus carries His cross to His death
Jesus dies on the cross
Jesus is buried
Easter Saturday (Easter Vigil)

8. Easter Sunday Easter Sunday (The Resurrection) Jesus rises on this day
He stays on Earth for forty more days
His Resurrection proves He is God

9. Symbols of Lent The Symbols of Lent are: Purple Vestments
Stations of the Cross
Fasting and Abstinence
No Flowers in the Church
Ashes

10. The Triduum The last three days of Holy Week are:
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil)
These three days are known as the Triduum

11. Easter
Easter is a season of new life, because Jesus will go to a new life in heaven
Resurrection is another name for Easter
Easter is the most important feast of the liturgical year, because it proved He was God

12. Easter
After Jesus rose from the dead, He stayed on Earth for forty days
He appeared to many people during this time
He promised the Apostles that He would send someone to watch over them
He made Peter, the head of the Church or Pope
On the fortieth day, Jesus ascended body and soul back to His Father in heaven.
This is called Ascension Thursday

13. Easter
On the fiftieth day after His resurrection, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to give the Apostles courage and strength to go out and spread God’s message
This is known as Pentecost Sunday

14. The Symbols of Easter are:
White Lily
Holy Water (Symbol of New Life)
Paschal Candle
White Vestments