Lent and Holy Week Emojis: What to Use, and What to Leave Off

Ash Wednesday and the forty days

Ashes are a cross on the forehead, so the Latin cross is the right first mark. Purple can signal the liturgical color if you write “Lent” or “Ash Wednesday” next to it. A candle fits a parish penance service. A seedling can mark a fast that is about growth, not a diet. Say that, or people will think you are posting about gardening.

The temptation in the desert is Matthew 4 on Catholic Bible Online. The teaching on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is Matthew 6. Link the chapter when the caption quotes it. A short parish note on the day itself is in the Ash Wednesday guide.

Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday

Palm Sunday can add the palm beside the cross. The entry is Matthew 21. Good Friday should be the cross and almost nothing else. Do not use the skull: on Allemojipedia and in ordinary texting it means laughter or shock, not the death of Jesus. Do not use fire to mean “powerful homily.” Holy Saturday can keep a candle and stay quiet. The Passion narrative Catholics read is John 19.

Folded hands still belong on a prayer attached to these days. The meaning page is folded hands on Allemojipedia. The church emoji belongs on the service time. Celebration marks wait until the Easter Vigil.

Laetare Sunday is the exception

The fourth Sunday of Lent eases the purple for a day. A rose is honest then. It is not permission to fill the whole of Lent with party emojis. One rose, the word Laetare, and the Mass time are enough.