![]() This is how the keeping of the season of Lent as we now know it, came into being.Īs most people know, Lent lasts for forty days, commemorating the forty days and nights that Jesus spent being tempted and tested in the wilderness, in advance of beginning his public ministry. ![]() ![]() In time, it was seen that all Christian believers might benefit from a period of self-examination, fasting study and prayer, before celebrating the joy of Easter Day. Lent was also the time when those who had been excommunicated from Christian fellowship because of apostasy or serious faults, could undergo a time of prayer, fasting and penitential acts showing that they had truly repented of their past failures, so that they might be readmitted to Eucharistic fellowship on Easter Day. ![]() Fasting and prayer were regarded as being important elements of that time of preparation. Originally, Lent was a period in which new Christian believers underwent a period of teaching and preparation ready to be baptised on Easter Eve/Holy Saturday, before being admitted to receive Communion for the first time on Easter Day. Yesterday, 17 th February was Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent. Hand sewn cross on my Lenten stole © Ricky Yates
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