Additionally, what date did it start this year?
2007-03-17 15:19:36 · 13 answers · asked by Susie 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lent starts on Ash Wednesday, and ends on Easter Sunday.
2007-03-17 15:21:54 · answer #1 · answered by RepoMan18 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent is a period of fasting and penitence traditionally observed by Christians in preparation of Easter.The length of the Lenten season was established during the 4th century as 40 days. In the Eastern churches, where both Saturdays and Sundays are regarded as festival days, the period of Lent starts eight weeks before Easter. However, in the Western church, the 40-day Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and extends (with the omission of Sundays) and ends to the day before Easter, which is the Holy Saturday or Easter Even.
2007-03-17 22:42:34 · answer #2 · answered by Greyfriars Bobby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. Most everybody continues the Lenten devotion clear through till Easter because on Good Friday it is Fast and Abstinence anyway.
2007-03-17 22:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lent starts on Ash Wednesday...and ends on Easter Sunday.. check a calender..
2007-03-17 22:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by Chrys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lent started Feb. 21st this year. It will April 8th this year. It always ends on Easter no matter what. It is 40 days long, but it doesn't include Sundays in those 40 days.
2007-03-17 22:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by One Odd Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On Easter Sunday, April 8.
Peace!
2007-03-17 22:24:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter
2007-03-17 22:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by purplepeach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter.
It starts on Ash Wednesday. I don't know the date this year.
2007-03-17 22:22:08 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not catholic, so I don't follow this tradition of Lent.
I am a born again Christian.
2007-03-17 22:23:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you clean out your belly button.
2007-03-17 22:24:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋