2007-03-06 10:25:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
40 days before Easter - we offer simple sacrifices in honour of all Jesus did for us.
2007-03-06 10:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by Marysia 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The highlight of the year for Christians is Easter, the day when our Lord rose from the dead. Lent is a forty-day season of preparation for Easter. Lent always begins on a Wednesday, called Ash Wednesday.
Why 40 days? Because, Jesus fasted and was tempted in the wilderness for 40 days. Lent, then, is our time of fasting, prayer, temptation and repentance. Lent is not required anywhere in scriptures, but it has been a custom, which Christians have practiced for most of the last two thousand years.
In many languages, the word "Lent" actually means "fast." This is where the custom of giving up something for Lent originated.
May God bless you
2007-03-06 10:30:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Western Christianity, Lent is the forty day period (or season) preceding Easter lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Easter Eve).[1]
Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25, roughly corresponding to early spring in the Northern Hemisphere. A simple formula to know the exact date is that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Spring Equinox. Ash Wednesday, which may fall anywhere between February 4 and March 10, occurs forty-six days before Easter, but Lent is nevertheless considered to be forty days long, due to the fact that Sundays in this season are not counted among the days of Lent. The traditional reason for this is that fasting was considered inappropriate on Sunday, the day commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus.
Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, while Lent is a time of preparation for Holy Week. Holy Week recalls the events preceding and during the crucifixion, which occurred in Jerusalem of the Roman province Judea, circa AD 30.
2007-03-06 10:28:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lent is a season of withdrawal and spirtual preparation for the Christian feast of Easter. It developed in the Middle Ages, coinciding with the part of the year when the root cellar was getting pretty bare anyway. Religious fasting empowered them to hold on until the spring harvest.
2007-03-06 11:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the time (40 days and night) that Jesus spent in the desert alone and fasting right before he was crucified. Catholics celebrate the lent. Give something up its usually superficial but its the thought that they are willing to sacrafice that counts and don't eat meat on fridays.
2007-03-06 10:30:45 · answer #5 · answered by Okaydokay21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of religion, a forty day period of fasting and reflection, ending on Good Friday (and beginning on Ash Wednesday). Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday, the date of which is computed by a hairy algorithm which is much too long to include here. It roughly corresponds in intent with the Islamic Ramadhan.
2007-03-06 10:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is yearly period of time - a preparation for Easter in Christian churches. Link that will answer you questions.
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2001/0104fea1.asp
2007-03-06 10:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Marg 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lent is where Catholics fast for a certain number of prescribed days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
2007-03-06 13:07:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the time before easter where you give up something you love like choclate and you donate money to project compassion or another charity. you do this for 40 days.
2007-03-06 10:29:15 · answer #9 · answered by ktodak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something that you have borrowed, someone else has lent.
2007-03-06 10:27:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋