Lenten sacrifice
Forty-day fast offering
A Lenten sacrifice is something voluntarily given up during Lent, the forty-day period before Easter in the Christian calendar.
The practice commemorates Jesus's fasting in the wilderness and serves as spiritual discipline.
Common sacrifices include sweets, alcohol, or social media: I gave up chocolate as my Lenten sacrifice this year.
The phrase sometimes appears ironically for any temporary abstention.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- no meatExcluding animal protein
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- giving upChoosing to stop trying
self-denial · Ash Wednesday · ashes · purple · forty days · desert wandering · wilderness · temptation · prayer · spiritual discipline · almsgiving · giving alms · meatless · fish Friday · chocolate · sweets · devotion · discipline
Lenten sacrificeindulgence
Yielding to desire
self-indulgence · excess · gluttony · hedonism · splurge
Lenten sacrificeEaster feast
Celebratory spring holiday meal
Mardi Gras · Fat Tuesday · Carnival · Shrove Tuesday · celebration
Lenten sacrificemonastic vow
Pledge binding one to austerity
teetotalism · asceticism · vegetarianism · veganism · celibacy
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