lent

• primary season of repentance for all Christians, reflecting the forty days Jesus spent in the desert in fasting and prayer


  lent
• ❏A season of penance, reflection and fasting which helps us remember what Jesus did for us and prepares us for Christ’s Resurrection


  lent
• lent begins in

  ash wednesday
• lent ends in easter triduum
• what is easter triduum

  holy thursday, good friday, holy saturday
• what does the ash symbolize

  mortality as well as our need for ongoing repentance.
• Ashes are applied to our forehead in the sign of the cross as the words


  Repent and believe in the Gospel”
• Ashes are prepared by

  burning palm leaves from the previous year’s Palm Sunday celebrations.
• pillars of lent


  pray, fast, give
• Catholics who are 14 years old until death are bound to practice the law of abstinence.
• Catholics who are 18-59 years old are bound to practice the law of fasting
• To be better able to pray and to be alert from the snares of the devil.


  fast
• It is based on charity to love God and others as oneself.


  give