LENTEN SEASON
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2791/4884/articles/Season_of_Lent_1600x.jpg?v=1582251804 Lent, often known as the Lenten season or Great Lent, is a 40-day period of meditation on Jesus' desert fasting and temptation. Lent is a forty-day period of fasting and prayer that precedes Easter, but is it still characterized in this way in today's society, or has it changed? Following the Epiphany feast, the Lenten season starts. Lent is a liturgical season that begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts until the Paschal Triduum, which is 48 days before Easter. Beginning on Ash Wednesday and continuing throughout Holy Week, the Lenten fast is usually practiced for 40 days. Because it is the feast of our Lord's resurrection, Sundays are exempt from the Lenten fast. Lent Sundays, on the other hand, are still part of the Lenten liturgical season in the Western Church, and worship services are more muted. The jubilant "Alleluias!" that follow the Gloria are not uttered until the Eas