2024年2月13日 · Lent ends with Easter Sunday, which marks the resurrection of the Lord. Lent is a season of prayer and fasting before Easter. The season lasts 46 days and during this time, Catholics attend Mass and Reconciliation, make personal sacrifices, and perform additional acts of service and devotion.

Make the most of your Lenten journey with these daily devotions. Each devotion includes a scripture reading, prayer, meditations, and a small act that will reinforce your faith. Commit to your faith and choose to 'live' Lent. Join our 40-day challenge to authentically live the Lenten season.

In this Update we'll consider some of the familiar customs of Lent and show how we can renew some of our Lenten customs to bring forth the baptismal theme. Why do some refer to Easter as Easter and others use Lent or Pentecost and what is the significance of each?

2015年3月11日 · We seem to easily rise to the challenge of sacrifice during Lent. However, our main problem lies in the fact that our sacrifice is misguided. When my students ask what our goals should be during Lent, I offer a simple three-fold approach: 1. Lent should be about living the Gospel every day.

The practice of fasting during Lent finds its genesis in our Lord's journey into the desert where he fasted and prayed for forty days and nights in preparation to begin his public ministry (Matt 4:1-2; Luke 4:1-3). The forty days of Lent are in imitation of Christ's time in the desert.

2024年2月27日 · Begin Lent with beautiful Lenten prayers. Each and every day we are called on to become closer to God. We can answer that call with our actions and our prayers. This Lenten Season take a step closer to the Lord with these special Lenten prayers.

Lent is the period of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer â through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial â for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of …

Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer. Ash Wednesday takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday, and is chiefly observed by Catholics, although many other Christians observe it too. Ash Wednesday comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance and fasting.

Origin of the word The Teutonic word Lent , which we employ to denote the forty days' fast preceding Easter, originally meant no more than the spring season. Still it has been used from the Anglo-Saxon period to translate the more significant Latin term quadragesima (French ...

The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer â through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial â for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.