Lent offers us all a very special opportunity to grow in our relationship with God and to deepen our commitment to a way of life which is rooted in our baptism. In our busy world, Lent provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon our patterns, to pray more deeply, to experience sorrow for what we have failed to do, and to be generous to those in need.
These Lenten resources are here to assist our entry into this wonderful season from our preparation of lent to the celebration of Holy Week.
Further resources will be added to the website as we journey through Lent and prepare for Holy Week.
These Lenten resources are here to assist our entry into this wonderful season from our preparation of lent to the celebration of Holy Week.
Further resources will be added to the website as we journey through Lent and prepare for Holy Week.
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Lent is the forty-day liturgical season of fasting, special prayer and almsgiving in preparation for Easter. The name "Lent" is from the Middle English Lenten and Anglo-Saxon Lenten, meaning spring; its more primitive ecclesiastical name was the "forty days," tessaracoste in Greek. The number "forty" is first noted in the Canons of Nicaea (A.D. 325), likely in imitation of Jesus' fast in the desert before His public ministry (with Old Testament precedent in Moses and Elijah). By the fourth century, in most of the West, it referred to six days' fast per week of six weeks (Sundays were excluded); in the seventh century the days from Ash Wednesday through the First Sunday were added to make the number forty.
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