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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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	Lent admits killing Pittsfield boy, gets life ; Lewis Lent Jr., whose 1994 arrest in the attempted kidnapping...first-degree murder of a Pittsfield boy. Lent, 45, of North Adams, was immediately sentenced...for murdering 12-year-old Jimmy Bernardo. Lent was also sentenced to a concurrent 9 to 10... Read more
	These '40 days' of Lent can be very difficult to count ; Christians know where Lent is headed. They fast, they pray, they repent...celebrate Easter. But when, exactly, does Lent end? Roman Catholics say it ends just before...minority viewpoint. But do the math. If Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Maundy... Read more
	These `40 days' of Lent are difficult to count.(The Dallas Morning News) ; Christians know where Lent is headed. They fast, they pray, they repent...celebrate Easter. But when, exactly, does Lent end? Roman Catholics say it ends just before...minority viewpoint. But do the math. If Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Maundy... Read more
	Lent admitted crimes he didn't do, say kin ; Two relatives of Lewis Lent Jr., who is suspected of being a serial...order to escape grilling by authorities. Lent's nephew, Jon Wood, 17, of North Adams, told the Associated Press yesterday that Lent admitted to several crimes in order to... Read more
	Fla. woman says Lent raped her in 1979 Police probing case and 2 child killings ; A Florida woman has identified Lewis S. Lent Jr., who is suspected of being a serial...25, said she was watching a profile of Lent, of North Adams, on the CBS news program...Cortez said, when asked how she recognized Lent 15 years later. "When they showed a close-... Read more
	Lent 101 ; For some of us, all we really know of Lent is that some of our friends and co-workers...Easter. But, for those who observe it, Lent is much more than an act of denying oneself...Catholic Church, to explain the meaning of Lent and the lessons to be learned from observing... Read more
	GARDEN MAKES MESSAGE OF LENT MORE MEANINGFUL.(Editorial) ; ...eagerly awaited his yearly celebration of Lent - the 40-day period of fasting and repentance...his ``favorite church season.'' Because Lent begins with a reminder of human mortality...memory, I always dreaded the approach of Lent. Only it stood between me and Easter... Read more
	Task force dismisses Lent as suspect in several cases ; ...suspected serial child killer Lewis S. Lent Jr. as a suspect in several abduction and...focusing on a half-dozen other cases where Lent "possibly could have been involved," Pittsfield...research that retraces the movements of Lent since his youth, investigators have been... Read more
	THE BERKSHIRES Pittsfield wakes up, moves on after Lent Awareness has brought vigilance, without rancor ; ...courtroom were mostly empty. The trial of Lewis Lent Jr., a man who had once represented a community...high school students. In the year since Lent was arrested for trying to abduct a sixth-gra...residents. Because of his confessions, Lent's conviction Thursday of kidnapping and... Read more
	Lent has restaurants hooking diners with fish and other meatless entrees ; ...bread and water during certain days of Lent as they did during the Middle Ages, the...owned chain. "It's very popular during Lent." Gill said the 11 Buona Beef restaurants...raised a Catholic, so I know all about Lent and Lenten fasting," she said. "When I... Read more

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