When you stop using a dryer???
Lent ends when the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday begins
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.
It depends upon whether you are talking about the Eastern Church (Byzantine) or the Western Church (Roman).
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.
“Sometimes difficult with the state of the Catholic Church, which is why I separate the religion and church.”
Yeah. Good luck with that.
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.
I had checked several references including Vatican.org, I didn’t use .com (e.g., catholic.com) references as they are not usually the authority. However, I have since found an interesting reference:
Fasting and Abstinence - https://www.catholic.org/lent/abfast.php
Which has some interesting statements: Easter 2021 / Lent 2021 Begins on February 17, 2021 ends on April 3, 2021
For example, some Catholics fasted each of the forty days (except for Sunday and sometimes Saturdays) up to the ninth hour or 3:00 p.m., which is the hour that Christ gave up his spirit on the cross (Matt 27:50).
Latin Rite Catholics from age 18 up through to the beginning of their 60th year (their 59th birthday) are required to fast,
Now the Catholic Bishops say it is April 3: What is Lent? https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/lent
But if you go to the Catholic Star Herald it states: “This year, Lent begins Ash Wednesday, February 17, and ends on Thursday evening, April 1” Lenten Regulations 2021 What is interesting is that it also states for further information check USCCB (what says April 3) https://catholicstarherald.org/lenten-regulations-2021/
So Lent based on Jesus fasting for 40 days extends beyond 40 days and there does not seem to be definitive agreement on when it ends.
However, using my own reasoning, the Last Supper seems the most reasonable benchmark as Jesus participated and therefore his “fast” was officially over.
I never really knew what Lent was/is, much less when it starts or ends. I recall kids in school gave up stuff during it, but never heard why, or when/how it was invented, etc.
Happy Easter