2007-02-21 01:27:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lent starts today. Ash Wednesday and continues until Easter. You are supposed to give up soemthing you enjoy for God, for example Chocolate. It's mostly practiced in the Catholic Religion but some other christian religions practice giving something up for God as well.
2007-02-21 01:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lent starts on the 21st of February from Ash wednesday to glorious saturday.It covers a forty day period and is symbolic of Jesus retreating in the wilderness for forty days.I think you are supposed to pray,fast, give alms and give up somthing you enjoy
2007-02-21 09:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Trini 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lent begins today Ash wednesday, and lasts until good Friday I believe. You are supposed to fast, but not really that vigorously. Lots of people just give up meats on Fridays, other people give up something else for this period
2007-02-21 09:30:56 · answer #3 · answered by Tuco 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let starts today, which is ash wednesday and goes untill holy saturday (the day before easter). You're supposed to stop eating meat, some churches are more lax on this rule and have limited it to you can eat meat everyday but ash wednesday and fridays, and you're supposed to give up something. Like stop eating choclate, stop smoking, something that isn't easy. It's to symbolize Jesus spending 40 days in the desert, and all the other bibilcal events that lasted 40 days. Also you're supposed to reflect on yourself and other acts of penence. It's impossible to give you one answer for this question since almost every church does it a little different, but thats the general idea.
2007-02-21 09:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by Grant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is the 40 days preceeding Easter (this year April 8th). It begins on Ash Wednesday, which is today. It's a time of prayer, fasting, and alms giving in preparation for the celebration of Easter.
2007-02-21 09:31:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starts today on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. Give up one thing you most treasure for the period above. Most people I know give up pop or sweets.
2007-02-21 09:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by chilly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not biblical and it is demeaning to what Jesus did.
If you can abstain from sin for "lent" then you should abstain from it all of the time.
2007-02-21 09:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Christian93 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
count fourty days back from easter and u'll have it. it's when u give something like, this, tv, junkfood, or starbucks up for forty days for the lord
2007-02-21 09:30:48 · answer #8 · answered by Lena 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its that stuff that the filter in your dryer collects. Clean it out once a week.
2007-02-21 09:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋