| Lent Season | The 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by Roman Catholic, Eastern and some Protestant churches as period of penitence and fasting. |
| Ash Wednesday | On Ash Wednesday, we are to be reminded of our sin and mortality, making confession, and experience forgiveness through Christ?s death and resurrection. Ashes, which often are the burnt residue of last year?s palm from Palm Sunday, are both a sign of our mortality and our penitence and repentance. The ashes are mixed with a little water and carried in a small dish. As the minister goes from person to person, or as they come forward to him, he dips his finger in the ash, and makes a cross on the forehead of each person (?imposition?). He usually says, ?Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return?, but he may also choose an alternate statement such as, ?Consider yourself dead to sin and alive in Jesus Christ? |
| Passion | The sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death. Passion = Suffering |
| Passion Sunday | It is the fifth Sunday of Lent, or the second Sunday before Easter. |
| Passion Week | It is the week between Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday. |
| Palm Sunday | Jesus? triumphant entry into Jerusalem (?and a very great multitude spread for their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.?). Palm Sunday is the start of the Holy Week. |
| Holy Week | Holy Week is the last week of Lent. It begins at Palm Sunday and ends the day before Easter. |
| Maundy Thursday | Maundy Thursday commemorates Jesus? last supper with his disciples and the institution of the Lord?s supper. |
| Good Friday | Why is Good Friday called ?Good? Friday? |
| Easter | The resurrected Christ; the newness of life. |