Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday.

The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, mortifying the flesh, repentance of sins, almsgiving, simple living, and self- ... Great Lent · Clean Monday · Lazarus Saturday · Black Fast

13 сент. 2024 г. · Lent is a period of penitential preparation for the Christian feast of Easter. In Western churches it begins on Ash Wednesday.

What is Lent? Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. Catholics focus on prayer, fasting, ...

Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery.

It precedes Easter and is a solemn period centered on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. While Lent is often associated with the Catholic faith, many Christians– ...

11 февр. 2024 г. · Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of ...

Lent is the forty day period before Easter, excluding Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday).

Origin of the word. The Teutonic word Lent, which we employ to denote the forty days' fast preceding Easter, originally meant no more than the spring season.

Starting on Ash Wednesday and lasting six weeks until Easter Sunday, Lent is a time for Christians to reflect on their faith and deepen their relationship.