2007-02-19 14:58:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is not in the Bible, it is only in the Catholics Bible that they put together themselves. Lent is after Ash Wednesday I think, and you give up at least on thing that you love for lent. I'm not Catholic but I go to a Catholic school and I know more than some of the kids who actually are Catholic.
2007-02-19 15:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Teenager 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Lent is the 40 days starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday. (Holy Saturday is the day before Easter.) Sundays are skipped since they are seen as holy days because they are mini-easter celebrations.
Lent is not found in the bible. It is just a tradition. It is a period in which you give something up that you love so that you can better understand what Christ gave up for us.
Lent is a season of the church. Until midnight it is Epiphany. After Lent it is the season of Easter. (Easter isn't a one day thing.) The church has many seasons...
Seasons:
Advent - preparing for Christ to come (starts at the Church New Year and ends on Christmas Eve)
Christmas - Celibrating the birth of Christ. It starts on Christmas and lasts until the day before Epiphany.
Epiphany - Celebrates the baptism of Jesus
Lent - Preparing for Easter
Easter - Starts on Easter and ends the day before the day of Penecost
Penecost - Celebrates our own baptism and we also remember that we are waiting for Christ to return
The Church year ends with "Christ the King Sunday" which is looking foward to the day Jesus will reign as king of the earth.
Then is all starts over agian!
2007-02-19 23:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by N♂t - ♂ut - Yet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exodus 34:28
1 Kings 19:8
Matthew 4:2
2007-02-19 23:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday until Easter observed by Christians as a season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter.
2007-02-19 23:04:19 · answer #4 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is *very* biblical. It is a time before Easter, roughly 40 days of prayer and penance, modeled after Christ's 40 days in the desert.
God Bless!
2007-02-19 23:05:27 · answer #5 · answered by aeiou12 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal.
By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
This season of penance is an intense moments of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-21 01:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lent is not in the Bible. It is a Catholic ritual
2007-02-19 23:04:13 · answer #7 · answered by Kye H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It isn't in the Bible, is a man-made thing kind of like the regimented fasts and the three times a day prayer thing that the Pharisees imposed on the Jewish people during Jesus' day. And Jesus had no time for these man-made laws and marks of spirituality.
God Bless!!!
2007-02-19 23:05:51 · answer #8 · answered by All 4 His Glory 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's the 40 day period set aside in the church for spiritual preparation for Easter.
2007-02-19 23:02:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look closer.
Sackcloth and ashes are mentioned about twenty times, all in the context of doing penance for sins.
2007-02-20 05:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋