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| What is the first day of Lent, and also a work by T. S. Eliot? | Ash Wednesday |
| What do Christians call the Sunday befire Easter, commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem? | Palm Sunday |
| Many worshippers begin Easter with a sunrise service to follow the example of what woman, who went to Christ's tomb "early while it was yet dark"? | Mary Magdalen |
| The medieval practice of parishioners dressing as saints and angels and parading through the courtyard explains some of the practice on what holiday? | Halloween |
| Originally a day of penance, what last day of before Lent is now usually spent in exuberant feasting? | Fat Tuesday (or Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday) |
| Full obversance of what holy day actually lasts from Septuagesuma Sunday, seventy days before it, to Pentecost, 50 days after it? | Easter |
| What is Septuagesima? (sep-t&-w&-'je-s&-m&) | The ninth Sunday before Easter Sunday (the third before Lent)The name literally translates to "the seventieth" although it is not exactly 70 days. |
| What is Pentecost? | Fifty days after Easter Sunday. Also called WHITSUNDAY. Celebrated the 7th Sunday after Easter - it is a feast day celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. |
| What word, part of the eccesialstical name for Mardi Gras, is a form of a verb that means "to forgive" | Shrove (for Shrove Tuesday, the say before Ash Wednesday) |
| What holy day marks the date of Christ's crucifixion? | Good Friday (the Friday before Easter |
| What is Lent? | the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of penitence and fasting |
| What is the end of the full eccesiastical celebration of Easter? | Pentecost |
| What Christian holiday celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles? | Pentecost |
| What Christian holiday marks the day on which Gabriel informed Mary that she would give birth to Jesus? | Annunciation Day |
| What is the period of expectation and preparation that begins on the Sunday closest to November 30 called in the Catholic church? | Advent |
| What is Advent? | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| Formerly the principal feast of the church year, it celebrate the presence of the body of Christ in the Eucharist. What is this feast day, also a Texas city? | Corpus Christi |
| In America, many churches mark the Sunday nearest this holy day as a day to pay tribute to those who have died the previous year. What holy day is this? | All Saints Day |
| What name for Holy Thursday comes from the "mandate" that Christ gave his disciples at the Last Supper? | Maundy Thursday |
| When is Maundy Thursday? | The Thursday before Easter |
| When is good Friday? | The Friday before Easter |
| When Jesus entered Jerusalem in triump, what were spread before him to honor him? | Palm Fronds |
| When is Palm Sunday? | Sunday before Easter |
| What Christian holiday, about 12 days after Christmas, commemorates the wise men's visit to the Christ child? | Epiphany |
| What name is given the Sunday after Pentecost, which honors the spirit of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? | Trinity Sunday |
| Because the "forty days" in this period does not include Sundays, there are actually 46 calendar days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. What is it called? | Lent |
| What Christain holiday is also called WhitSunday? | Pentecost |
