Lent lasts for 40 days and nights each year, ending with Holy Week and Easter. This period of time reflects the 40 days that, according to the Gospels, Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and ...

Lent and Easter services, events and Christian resources for 2025 will be announced early ... The Reverend Mark Birch reflects on Peter’s denial of Jesus and how it is represented visually on the ...

many people find that the prayer is particularly helpful during Lent, the 40-day liturgical season that helps prepare Christians for the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday, said Hallow.

and the time is dedicated to personal reflection and preparation for Easter. One of the main components of Lent is fasting, to recognize Jesus's sacrifice observers give up something important to ...

It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the religious period of fasting and repentance for Christians. People who observe Lent do so to honor what is said in the Bible to be Jesus' 40 days ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

Easter is a “movable feast” tied to the spring equinox and a lunar cycle. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on ... up to Easter called Lent, falls on March 5 this year.

Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried and on the third day after his death — Easter Sunday — he rose from the dead. Prior to Easter, many Christians and Catholics will observe Lent ...