Lent is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. The forty days represent the time Jesus spent in the desert, where according to the Bible he endured temptation by Satan.
The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penitence, charity and self-denial—for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
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Lent is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. The forty days represent the time Jesus spent in the desert, where according to the Bible he endured temptation by Satan.
The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penitence, charity and self-denial—for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus.
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