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As with an Advent calendar, a Lenten calendar often has windows or flaps containing "a scriptural verse for each day, a reflection question, and an action that is appropriate and achievable". [1] The Bible verse for the day is frequently accompanied by an image relating to Lent. [ 2 ]
When Lent starts this year, what it signifies and how you can celebrate. When Is Lent 2024? Everything You Need To Know About This Period of Preparation for Easter
Lent is a holy time celebrated in the Christian calendar, and the dates change every year. Find out when the event that leads up to Easter Sunday starts and when Lent ends in 2023.
Here's what to know about Lent, when it is this year and the centuries-old traditions surrounding the 40-day period.
Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, [1] 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year in preparation for Easter. It echoes the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.
Great Lent, or the Great Fast (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή, Megali Tessarakosti or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, Megali Nisteia, meaning "Great 40 Days", and "Great Fast", respectively), is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity.
Every year, Christians of various denominations observe Lent, a six-week period of time ahead of Easter where participants "give something up" while pursuing a closer relationship with God.
A plenary indulgence is granted the Christian faithful who devoutly visit one of the four patriarchal basilicas in Rome and there recite the Our Father and the Creed: 1) on the basilica's titular feast; 2) on Sundays and the other 10 holy days of obligation [10] 3) once a year or on any other day chosen by the individual Christian faithful. [11]