2006-08-11 11:06:36 · 4 answers · asked by R & J 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Lent is the forty days prior to easter sunday. Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.
So all you need to know is the date of the first fulll moon after the vernal equinox
Full Moon dates are based on Eastern Time.
2007 2008 2009 2010
March 3 21 10 29
April 2 20 9 28
Everyone know the vernal exinox is March 20 or 21.
So be carful in 2010.
2006-08-11 12:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Tim D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
February 21 – April 6, 2007
2006-08-11 11:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by kako 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm a former church of Christ member, yet I grew to become a Catholic 3 years in the past. i visit be gazing the Lent season in the process the regulations of my church. i visit attend mass Wed. morning and and distribute communion in the previous receiving ashes. i'm a woman Eucharistic minister at my church. whether Ash Wednesday isn't a Catholic holy day of criminal duty, it extremely is a vital component to the season of Lent. the 1st sparkling information of Ash Wednesday is around 960, and interior the twelfth century human beings began utilising palm branches ffrom the previous Palm Sunday for ashes. there are various references interior the OT approximately ashes and interior the NT Jesus refers to using sackcloth and ashes as warning signs of repentance: "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the robust deeds carried out on your midst were carried out in Tyre and Sidon, they could previously have repented in sackcloth and ashes" (Mt 11:21, LK 10:13) by utilising the way, to all people who do no longer understand this, Catholics are Christians, and that they do stick to scripture.
2016-12-17 09:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by adleman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of LENT
2006-08-11 11:44:39 · answer #4 · answered by lttlbt22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋