Lent is focusing on the 40 daysleading up to Jesus death (Crucifixion) and his rising again on the 3rd day. Usually accompanied with people giving up msomething that they really enjoy and will miss.
Lent is the 40 day period which Jesus spent in the Wilderness resisting temptation from the Devil. During this time, Jesus had no food whatsoever.
Lent, the forty days before Easter, mainly commemorates Jesus' last days on Earth, his passion, and his crucifixion. The last week of Lent is especially meaningful. Starting with Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, on which Jesus made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a colt, the week celebrates Jesus' final moments. Ash Wednesday was the day the day of the Passover Feast with Jesus and his disciples, and Good Friday was the day Jesus died, taking away all our sins. Finally, he rose again on Easter, conquering death and guaranteeing all of us eternal life with him.
Shrove Tuesday is the day right before the season of Lent begins. In some major countries it is also called pancake day, it is to begin the time when Jesus died for us until Easter Sunday.
the season of lent
A Paschal Mystery is a part of the Christian faith central concept of salvation. It pertains to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. An example of a current day Paschal Mystery would be Easter Sunday and Lent.
We celebrate Jesus death by attending a church service and by fasting that day.
Lent recalls the 40 days Jesus fasted and prayed in the desert in preparation for His ministry. The 40-day season of lent is a time for us to take stock of the way we're living and set aside those things that distract us from having a deeper relationship with God. It is marked by greater prayer, fasting and almsgiving in preparation for the celebration of Easter, and is a journey that follows the path of Jesus through His terrible suffering and death on the cross. These were great acts of love and forgiveness ending with the celebration of His glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday.
give something up to remember how Jesus fasted for 40 day and 40 nights.
give something up to remember how Jesus fasted for 40 day and 40 nights.
Yes we should. Although Lent is about Our Lord's Temptation in the wilderness, His Death is also contemplated during this time, as during both His Time in the wilderness & during His Passion, Our Lord was Most Vulnerable, & yet Overcame much.
The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. This season of penance is an intense moment of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works. The Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches also observe the season of Lent. Many modern Protestant Churches consider the observation of Lent to be a choice, rather than an obligation.