By:

Angie Bertila

Andrea Hermano

Carmen Vega

*LENT

*What is lent?

*Lent is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar of many Christian denominations that begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts approximately six weeks before Easter day. The traditional reason of lent is the preparation of the believer through prayers, penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement and self-denial. This event, along with its pious customs are observed by Christians in many traditions. Today, some Anabaptist and evangelical churches also observe the Lenten season.

*Lent is traditionally described as lasting for 40 days, in commemoration of the forty days which Jesus spent fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by the devil.

*Ash Wednesday

*On Ash Wednesday, preceding the first Sunday of Lent, the symbolic gesture of the imposition of ashes is performed in front of the Catholic faithful. The ash represents the destruction of the errors of the previous year when they burned. While the priest imposes the ashes says one of two expressions: "Repent and believe in the gospel" or "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return".

*Calendar*Easter is closely related to the agricultural calendar and the time of renewal of the earth. To calculate your holding the sun and moon (spring sun and moon) are taken into account. In that sense, seek the first Sunday after the first full moon of northern spring (Northern Hemisphere). Having found the Easter forty days before counted for attaching the first day of Lent, corresponding to the called “Ash Wednesday”.

*Lent images

*The “Vella Quaresma”*The traditional “Vella

Quaresma” that is celebrated in Catalonia, usually in almost every school, is an old lady with seven legs and every week they put off one leg until Holy Week so she has no legs, so children can count how many days are missing until Easter.

*Facts about lent

*Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent for Roman Catholics.

*Clean Monday is the first day of Lent for Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Churches.

*The fourth Lenten Sunday is Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom.

*Passion Sunday marks the beginning of Passion tide.

*Sixth Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week.

*Thursday is called Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday.

*On Good Friday, Christians remember Jesus’ Crucifixion and burial.