Posted on 03/29/2021 6:07:54 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
As a prodigal son that is supporting the Catholic Religion, and have my daughter in a Catholic School I am trying to support the religion. Sometimes difficult with the state of the Catholic Church, which is why I separate the religion and church.
Last year I discovered the Lent may end on Thursday instead of Easter Sunday, which leads to questions.
When does Lent end? According to several websites it is April 3rd.
Another site says Thursday April 1 in keeping with the Last Supper.
Furthermore Lent as I was taught was 40 days, since Lent started Feb 17, and 40 days from that would be March 31st. However, some say Sundays are not included in Lent, which means you can cheat.
And if the date isn’t bad enough, what time? For example, if Thursday based on the Last Supper then it follows sometime after noon. Otherwise Lent can end at 0000 Hours military time on the agreed date.
So thoughts? Recommendations? Or Bible quotes.
When you stop using a dryer???
Lent ends when the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday begins
Never and it’s Trump’s fault.
End Thursday before evening mass, feast of the last supper.
The 40 day thing is fudged... “ Although the Lenten season — Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday — lasts 44 days, the number of days for penance and fasting before Easter is still 40. Forty-four days, minus six Sundays, equals 38. Add the other two days of Holy Triduum, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, and it equals 40 days.”
Read the Bible. There is nothing about lent in the Bible.
There’s nothing in the Bible about a Trinity. And there is in the Bible a specific reference to sins only being forgiven by the Apostolic Church. Hmmmm. Anyway, Lent is Tradition, which is binding, as St Paul tells us (and finally, there is no Biblical support that all Christian belief is in the Bible). 40 days of sacrifice emulating Our Lord’s 40 days in the desert, a Tradition that is pretty old and noble.
It depends upon whether you are talking about the Eastern Church (Byzantine) or the Western Church (Roman).
Everything that Lent is about is in all the Holy Bibles in the Gospels.
Saturday, at twelve noon.
Sundays are not included, that is correct. Sundays are never fast days, so Lenten penances are suspended on those days. Incidentally, fasts are also suspended on certain feast days too—not just Sundays. It’s not “cheating”, it’s just getting into the proper spirit of the liturgical day.
As for when it ends, basically Wednesday is the last day of Lent proper, and then you enter the three-day period (Triduum) of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. But the fasting still goes on...in fact even with all the liberalizing over the last 50 years, Good Friday is still a mandatory fast day.
Lent is not Biblical - so this is not that important a question. However, the 40 days - which begin on Ash Wednesday, run out on Saturday - the day before Easter. This is, of course, if Sundays are not included in the count. Sundays are a feast day and never included in Lent. As for time, it is Biblically clear that each days ends a sundown - thus sundown Saturday would be the end of Lent.
Only Jesus Himself forgives sins. He did not delegate the authority.
“Sometimes difficult with the state of the Catholic Church, which is why I separate the religion and church.”
Yeah. Good luck with that.
From Catholic Answers
John 20:19–23. “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
It’s right there. It’s biblical and true.
The Lenten fast ends on the Rising of our Lord Jesus. Sometime easter morning before dawn
Liturgically lent is 40 days but this excludes the six sundays of lent. We celebrate the risen Lord on every Sunday so while our liturgy is not rife with allelulia as we ponder the passion... the first say of the week is not a fasting say as we celebrate Holy Communion
Lent is the great season of atonement and preparation just like advent is a season or preparation. We prepare our hearts to meet our risen savior and ponder his passion and not our deserving
Happy Holy Week.
Liturgical lent is based on the temptations of Christ when he fasted in the wilderness for 40 days
lent very much so is liturgical and biblical
As for your understanding of trinity see John 1. It is clear that the triune God, father, son and Holy Spirit is the nature of One God, the king of creation.
I will pray for your discernment.
and there is nothing about posting comments on the internet either-your comments don’t really offer any insight
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