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What is Lent?

What is Lent?. -Mary Miranda -Justine Lozano -Alexx Nevarez. Lent. Lent is the period of 40 weekdays that the Christian Church is devoted to fasting. Lent is about sacrificing something that is important to us to bring us closer to our faith. When is Lent?. Lent lasts for 40 days

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What is Lent?

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  1. What is Lent? -Mary Miranda -Justine Lozano -Alexx Nevarez

  2. Lent • Lent is the period of 40 weekdays that the Christian Church is devoted to fasting. • Lent is about sacrificing something that is important to us to bring us closer to our faith.

  3. When is Lent? • Lent lasts for 40 days • Starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. • The three things we focus on is prayer, fasting and almsgiving. • Prayer is so we get closer to God and fasting is so that we sacrifice and almsgiving is to care for others

  4. How lent started. • Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days for the love he has for God. This is why Lent is a 40 length period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.

  5. Why is the color purple used? • The color purple symbolizes the pain and suffering leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and the suffering of all human beings.

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