Lenten season
Forty days' abstinence
The Lenten season is the period of forty days before Easter in the Christian calendar, observed through fasting, penance, and spiritual reflection.
It commemorates Jesus Christ's forty days of fasting in the wilderness.
The season begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at Easter: She gave up chocolate for the Lenten season.
- Ash WednesdayLent's opening day
- Shrove TuesdayPre-Lent confession and feasting
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- crossPass from side to side
mercy · redemption · forgiveness · fasting · meatless Friday · fish fry · giving up · Palm Sunday · contemplation · Holy Week · humility · Good Friday · Stations of the Cross · sacrifice · grace · palms · renewal · empty tomb
- church calendarAdvent, Easter Sunday, Christmas, Pentecost, Epiphany
- holy daysEaster Sunday, holy day, Easter Week, Christmas Eve, sabbath day
- Medieval HolidaysChristmas, Easter, Candlemas, Michaelmas, Epiphany
- religious fastsRamadan, Yom Kippur, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Tisha B'Av
- German ChristianityMartin Luther, Luther, Lutheran, Lutherans, Lutheran Church
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Period surrounding resurrection celebration
Eastertide · Advent · Advent season · Christmas season · Christmastide
Lenten seasonEaster season
Period surrounding resurrection celebration
Eastertide · Easter · Christmas · Christmastide · feast days
Lenten seasonCarnival
Pre-fasting festival season
Mardi Gras · Carnaval · Fat Tuesday · festival season · revelry
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