lesson 4

• Lent - quadragesima meaning 40 (forty days)
• Three pillar of Lenten Season

  • prayer
  • fasting
  • almsgiving
• prayer - people deepen their connection with God through prayer.
• Fasting - during Lent is a practice of abstaining from certain foods or

  activities.
• Types of Fasting •Partial Fasting

  • This involves eating smaller or

  simpler meals.
• Almsgiving - giving to the poor, sick, needy, etc.
• • Partial Fasting - This involves eating smaller or

  simpler meals.
• • Abstaining from Meat - Catholics traditionally abstain

  from eating meat.
• types of fasting

  • partial fasting
  • abstaining from meat
• Almsgiving - during Lent involves acts of

  charity and generosity.
• Start of Lenten Season is Ash Wednesday
• Ash Wednesday - February 14
• Palm Sunday - marks Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
• Th Triduum Lenten Season

  • Holy Thursday
  • Good Friday
  • Holy Sunday ;thus leading up to
  • Easter Sunday
• God's Friday - signifying the day of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice for humanity's salvation.
• Black Saturday - It commemorates the day that Jesus Christ's body lay in the tomb after his crucifixion.
• duratin of lenten season it is 40 days excluding the sundays.