What Is Lent?
Lent is a season, repent, pray, give alms, season, Passion, Passion, preparation of the Resurrection. Starts Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter Sunday. It contains 40 days of fasting to commemorate the events of Jesus into the wilderness fasting, prayer and then take the temptation for 40 days and nights, a time of passion and sorrow. (Actually 46 days, if counting from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday, but in a narrow sense, Lent from the First Sunday Holy Thursday afternoon, that is until the election Mass Supper on the way "in Caena Domini," in which God established the Eucharist, foot washing for the 12 disciples and passed a new commandment) (40 days Time also to remember the 40th night of prayer on the Mount of Moses Sinai and God gave commandment 10. Then 40 days to recall the 40-day journey in the desert of the prophet Elijah, as he escaped the wrath of Queen Gezabele, to carry on Mount Oreb (also Mount Sinai, Red Sea and the design of the Suez Canal), where God revealed himself and gave him a new mission (1 Kings 19),
In the third century, Lent lasted only two or three days, then last from three to four weeks. Number forty is applied by the regulations of the Council of Nicaea (325). Except on Sundays, the Church of the faithful should recommend fasting as prescribed by law. Full time Lent is a time also prepare ourselves for the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. During Lent are not married, the priest wear purple, with no experience and Glory Alleluia Mass. No accompanist when there is no singing. No flowers on the altar display. Mass every day with the preamble of different Lent. During this time, the Church prepares for the central event of history, the Redeemer of humanity of Jesus Christ.
Monday Vatican Council teaches: " Lent has two characteristics: 1 / Recall Baptism or is preparing for this sacrament. 2/Nhan mental strength to repent, repent. By the special meaning this Lent to prepare for the faithful ready to celebrate the paschal mystery after approach, closer to the Word of God and more passionate s tension prayer. In itself and in such worship to guide from the center of worship, the theme of baptism and penance is declared b stained deep s battery over "(SC 109).
".. Every year over forty days of Lent, the Church in communion with the mystery of Jesus in the wilderness "(GLGHCG 540)
So the spirit of Lent is to make the interior as well as individual action relating to worship of the Church more and more faithful response to the message and the teachings of Christ. Thus the Church calls the faithful to come eagerly sacrifice, penance, works of charity, prayer and work in Lent Holy Apostles.
In the third century, Lent lasted only two or three days, then last from three to four weeks. Number forty is applied by the regulations of the Council of Nicaea (325). Except on Sundays, the Church of the faithful should recommend fasting as prescribed by law. Full time Lent is a time also prepare ourselves for the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. During Lent are not married, the priest wear purple, with no experience and Glory Alleluia Mass. No accompanist when there is no singing. No flowers on the altar display. Mass every day with the preamble of different Lent. During this time, the Church prepares for the central event of history, the Redeemer of humanity of Jesus Christ.
Monday Vatican Council teaches: " Lent has two characteristics: 1 / Recall Baptism or is preparing for this sacrament. 2/Nhan mental strength to repent, repent. By the special meaning this Lent to prepare for the faithful ready to celebrate the paschal mystery after approach, closer to the Word of God and more passionate s tension prayer. In itself and in such worship to guide from the center of worship, the theme of baptism and penance is declared b stained deep s battery over "(SC 109).
".. Every year over forty days of Lent, the Church in communion with the mystery of Jesus in the wilderness "(GLGHCG 540)
So the spirit of Lent is to make the interior as well as individual action relating to worship of the Church more and more faithful response to the message and the teachings of Christ. Thus the Church calls the faithful to come eagerly sacrifice, penance, works of charity, prayer and work in Lent Holy Apostles.
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