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Lent officially ends on Holy Thursday. That is when the "Triduum", great three Days of holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday occur leading to Easter. Easter is not only a day but an Octave (eight day) celebration leading to a Season of the Church, Easter Season, which ends on Pentecost.
Lent is a Catholic colonoscopy. We need to go deep into ourselves and look at ourselves very closely. Here is a list of questions that will help you. Do you have a serious spiritual life? Do you attend Mass every Sunday unless you are very sick? Do you do unnecessary work on Sunday? Do you practice the virtue of charity? Are you patient and kind?
25 Φεβ 2017 · Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to conversion. Christians are asked to return to God “with all their hearts” (Joel 2:12), to refuse to settle for mediocrity and to grow in friendship with the Lord.
Why do we have a season of Lent? Joe Paprocki: Well the reason that we have Lent is really because we have Easter. Easter of course is the celebration of new life from death and what a perfect time to celebrate Baptism. So we have Lent because people are preparing to be baptized at the Easter vigil.
4 Μαρ 2024 · What is Lent? Is it actually forty days long? Are Sundays really "excluded from Lent"? You've got questions, and we've got answers.
James Akin. Q: What is Lent? A: Lent is the forty day period before Easter, excluding Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday). [This traditional ennumeration does not precisely coincide with the calendar according to the liturgical reform.
The Advent-Christmas combination is followed by a relatively short season of Ordinary Time before Ash Wednesday ushers in the forty days of Lent. The observance of Lent culminates in the solemn celebrations of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil that lie at the heart of the year.
