Lent is the 40-day period preceding Easter that focuses ... It hearkens back to these ideas of temptation and sacrifice, and ...

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 ...

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 ... Giving up these things isn't ...

Lent is the period of six weeks (40 days not including Sundays) leading up to Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The last week of Lent is ...

Jesus spent 40 days and 40 nights wandering the desert ... Traditionally, people gave up things like eggs, milk and butter. These would go off before Lent had passed, so people made pancakes ...

These groups are the Roman Catholics ... noted that two provincial synods should be held each year, "one before the 40 days of Lent." St. Athanasius (d. 373) in this "Festal Letters" implored ...