Lent is the 40-day period preceding Easter that focuses on remembering ... That's where the Lenten fast comes in. It hearkens back to these ideas of temptation and sacrifice, and its goal is to help ...

Get ready for the holiday season with these 40 Advent calendar crafts and ideas that will make counting down to Christmas fun ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

Themes: the Christian festival of Lent; Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday; making a sacrifice. Summary: This assembly celebrates the Christian festival of Lent - the forty days preceding Easter.

Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of Lent leading up to the Christian celebration of Easter. On Ash Wednesday, many Christians observe the tradition of placing ashes in a cross on the forehead, which ...

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The day was called "Triumph of Orthodoxy." Since that time, this event is commemorated yearly with a special service on the first Sunday of Lent, the "Sunday of Orthodoxy ... At the Divine Liturgy: ...

He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Lent is a period of 40 days and nights of preparation for Easter. Catholics may celebrate the season in three main ways.