Religion: Easter Flashcards
Shrove Tuesday
Comes from English word “shriving”, meaning to listen to someones sins and forgive them
Mardi Gras
French for “Fat Tuesday”
A reference to the fact that Mardi Gras is always the day before Ash Wedesday
Carnival
Spanish for Carnaval, celebrated as last day before lent
Food Eaten on Shrove Tuesday?
Pancakes- a day of indulgence and uses up many of the dairy products that are likely to go bad during lent
Food Eaten on Mardi Gras?
King Cake- decorated with purple, green, and gold sugar. Purple represents justice, green represents faith, and gold represents power.
Dirty Rice- symbolizes mixture of sins with purity that Jesus died to cleanse
Food Eaten on Carnivale?
Feijoada-pork and beans with rice. Moqueca Baiana-fragrant fish stew. Bradeiros- chocolate truffles made with condensed milk and cocoa
Days in lent in liturgical season
40
Why are there more than 40 days in lent in the linear calendar
Because Sundays are not counted towards the number of days
First and last days of lent?
Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday
3 Disciplines of Lent
Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving
Fasting
Eating one full meal in a day
Abstaining
Noot eating meat in a day
How is the date for Easter determined?
(1st Sunday after the 1st Full Moon after the Equinox {equal night)} )-Mar 21st)
Chapel vs Church
Chapel- no priest or permanent congregation. Typically attached to a larger establishment (school, business, etc.) and smaller.
Church-its own establishment with permanent priest and congregation.
Altar
Table where bread and wine are consecrated at mass.
