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Lent

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lent [Old Eng. lencten, =spring], Latin Quadragesima (meaning 40; thus the 40 days of Lent). In Christianity, Lent is a time of penance, prayer, preparation for or recollection of baptism, and preparation for the celebration of Easter . Observance of Lent is as old as the 4th cent. In Eastern churches it is reckoned as the six weeks before Palm Sunday. In the West the penitential season begins liturgically with Septuagesima, the ninth Sunday before Easter; the next Sundays are Sexagesima and Quinquagesima. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday , the 40th weekday before Easter. Of the Sundays... Read more
Lent
Lent the period preceding Easter which in the Christian Church...name comes from a Middle English abbreviation of Lenten . Lent lily the European wild daffodil, which typically has pale creamy-white outer petals. Lent term in the UK, the university term in which Lent falls. Read more
Lent
Lent. The fast of forty days before Easter . In the first three...The first mention of a period of forty days, probably of Lent, dates from AD 325, though the period was long differently...the obligation to fast was restricted to the first day of Lent and Good Friday . In the E. Church abstinence from ... Read more

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