LENT when does it start

[sunflower71]

When does lent start? Is it Ash weds or Shrove tues? And when does it end good friday or easter monday? Going to try give up choclate again (done it last year and I remember being confused over the end of it)!

[JackDanielsU]

Ash Wednesday till Holy Saturday (Day before Easter Sunday)

Shrove Tuesday is for you to use up all your eggs etc isnt?

[brachiopod]

It stops being Lent when I say you've gotta pay back that 'undred nicka.... or I'll send the boys rahhhnnd!!

brachio-shark & co.- money lenders and rent-a-heavy debt recovery

[hopalong]

21 february

[chazza]

I'm not religious but was at sunday school we were taught that Lent was the time when Jesus was fasting in the desert (40 days and 40 nights).

Traditionally you use up all the left over food in the house and make them into pancake type things on pancake tuesday and begin the fast (Lent) the next day (ash wednesday).

Jesus rode out of the desert on a donkey on palm sunday (the sunday before easter sunday) so that is when his fast (and therefore lent) traditionally ends. It can't go on to easter sunday because Jesus was put to death on good friday and therefore couldnt have still been fasting!

However people nowadays just seem to count it up to easter sunday

[lafrancaise]

chazza. Jesus didn't go into the wilderness the year of his death. He went there before getting baptised by John, then chose his disciples and preached for about 3 years. Lent is just a religious tradition of giving something up from Ash wednesday to Easter Saturday.

[smiffy65]

this reveals all you ant to know


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/custom s/lent.html

[smiffy65]

want sorry

[uglyboots]

It starts on Ash Wednesday, the idea of Shrove Tuesday being to use up all of the leftover fatty foods before fasting begins the next day.

[wuffstuff]

Why do you want to give something up because of a meaningless religious event? If you want to be healthier for a given period, then just do it. You don't need religion, you just need to use your own brain and do it for yourself. Every day is an opportunity to use your intelligence and freedom to do whatever you like to make your own life and others' lives more enjoyable - please don't burden yourself with religion - it's there to keep people docile, manageable and unthinking. Think for yourself and be free!

[JamesEverton]

Atheist evangelism is just as irritating as the religious version.