Lent
Pre-Easter abstinence
Lent is the forty-day period of fasting and penitence in the Christian calendar, running from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
Many Christians give up pleasures or vices during Lent as a spiritual discipline: I gave up chocolate for Lent.
The season commemorates Jesus's forty days in the wilderness. (Lowercase lent is the past tense of lend.)
Lent's opening day
- Palm SundayChristian observance before Easter
- Holy WeekDays preceding Easter Sunday
- Good FridayCrucifixion memorial day
- EasterResurrection commemoration day
purple · violet · veiling · ashes · imposition · Maundy Thursday · alleluia · Advent
Scriptural trial duration
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- durationLength of existence
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- JesusChristian faith's divine son
temptation · desert · preparation · countdown · anticipation · journey
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
temperance · restraint · deprivation · meager · sobriety · willpower · renunciation · mortification
Remorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- remorseGuilt for wrongdoing
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
guilt · penance · reconciliation · forgiveness · sorrow · compunction · amendment · expiation
Burned matter's residue
- purpleHue between crimson and azure
- crossPass from side to side
- palmHand's flat interior
- veilFabric that obscures
sackcloth · desert · wilderness · thorns · crown of thorns · Calvary · crucifix · palms
Restraining one's own desires
- offeringSomething presented or given
- giving upChoosing to stop trying
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
forfeit · abnegation · altruism · charity · almsgiving · abstaining · letting go · detachment
Pre-fasting festival season
- Mardi GrasPre-Ash Wednesday celebration
- Shrove TuesdayPre-Lent confession and feasting
- Pancake DayBritish pre-Lent food holiday
- fish fryMeal of fried seafood
Observing one's own mind
- meditationFocused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- prayerAddress to deity
solitude · silence · retreat · discernment · mindfulness · quiet · stillness · journaling
Ash Wednesday
Lent's opening day
- Palm SundayChristian observance before Easter
- Holy WeekDays preceding Easter Sunday
- Good FridayCrucifixion memorial day
Easter · purple · violet · veiling · ashes · imposition · Maundy Thursday · alleluia · Advent · Eastertide
forty days
Scriptural trial duration
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- durationLength of existence
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
Jesus · temptation · desert · preparation · countdown · anticipation · journey
abstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
asceticism · temperance · restraint · deprivation · meager · sobriety · willpower · renunciation · mortification · almsgiving
contrition
Remorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- remorseGuilt for wrongdoing
atonement · guilt · penance · reconciliation · forgiveness · sorrow · compunction · amendment · expiation · absolution
ashes
Burned matter's residue
veil · sackcloth · desert · wilderness · thorns · crown of thorns · Calvary · crucifix · palms
self-denial
Restraining one's own desires
- offeringSomething presented or given
- giving upChoosing to stop trying
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
surrender · forfeit · abnegation · altruism · charity · almsgiving · abstaining · letting go · detachment · oblation
Carnival
Pre-fasting festival season
- Mardi GrasPre-Ash Wednesday celebration
- Shrove TuesdayPre-Lent confession and feasting
- Pancake DayBritish pre-Lent food holiday
introspection
Observing one's own mind
- meditationFocused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
prayer · solitude · silence · retreat · discernment · mindfulness · quiet · stillness · journaling · vigil
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- Jesus ChristChristology, crucifixion, nativity, resurrection, ascension
- EasterEaster egg, Easter eggs, Easter basket, Easter Sunday, Easter dinner
- observancesholidays, holy days, commemorations, anniversaries, Remembrance Day
- Religious HolidaysEaster Sunday, Passover, Pentecost, Good Friday, Ramadan
LentEaster
Resurrection commemoration day
Christmas · Eastertide · feast day · feast · Christmastide
Lentfeasting
Eating sumptuously together
indulgence · celebration · gluttony · revelry · Carnival
LentCarnival
Pre-fasting festival season
Mardi Gras · Carnaval · Fat Tuesday · festival · bacchanalia
- lend a handOffer assistance to someone
- lending a handProviding assistance to another
- lent a handProvided voluntary assistance
- lend an earListen with sympathy
- lend a helping handVolunteer one's assistance
- lending an earListening attentively to someone