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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the Bishops of the United States , the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories in Africa , Asia , Latin America , the Middle East and Eastern Europe .
Like Easter, the exact timing of Ash Wednesday changes each year. Every year, it falls 40 days before Easter. In 2023, Ash Wednesday will be on Wednesday, February 22.That's pretty early in the ...
Feb. 14 may have been Valentine’s Day, but it also was Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. For Christians around the world, the 40-day religious period is an observance of the time Jesus Christ ...
Lenten suppers occur daily from Mondays through Saturdays at sunset during the Lenten season in the context of Christian family life (if that family is observing all forty days of Lent through fasting); in a communal context, they are often held on Wednesdays (though they can be held any day[s] on Monday through Saturday) on which Christians of various denominations often attend a service of ...
Present day [ edit ] At the present time, on Christian strict fasting days of Lent ( Ash Wednesday and Good Friday ), the Catholic Church prescribes "only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food in the morning and evening, observing — as far as quantity and quality are concerned — approved local custom.".
Lent begins Feb. 14 and runs through March 28 in 2024. According to britannica.com , the early Christian church observed Lent over a six-week period or 36 days with fasting except on Sundays.
The early Christian form is known as the Black Fast: "eating only once a day, toward evening; nothing else except a little water was taken all day". [15] This was the normative way of Christian fasting prior to the 8th century A.D. and is still kept by some of the faithful to this day, especially during Lent. [15]
The chancel of a church on Ash Wednesday 2015 (the veiled altar cross and purple paraments are customary during Lent). Ash Wednesday marks the start of a 40-day period which is an allusion to the separation of Jesus in the desert to fast and pray. During this time he was tempted. Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13. [148]