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- ASHES
- The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are traditionally made by burning the palm fronds blessed on the previous year's Palm Sunday.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DESERT
- The forty days of Lent echo Jesus's forty-day fast in the Judean desert, a story told in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PURPLE
- Purple has been the liturgical color of Lent since at least the early medieval period, symbolizing both penitence and royal dignity.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- WEDNESDAY
- Ash Wednesday gets its name from the ancient practice of marking the faithful with ash — a sign of mortality and the start of Lenten fasting.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Lent: a free large-print word search
Lent word search — free and large-print — for forty days of fasting, reflection, ashes, and the quiet road toward Easter.
About Faith & Inspiration
Lent stretches forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, mirroring Jesus's forty days in the desert. It is a season of slowing down — of prayer whispered in the early morning, of giving something up, of small acts of mercy and almsgiving that quietly reshape the heart. Purple vestments drape the altar, palms from last year's celebration are burned into the ashes traced on foreheads, and the whole Church waits in hopeful sorrow for the dawn of Easter.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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