You do receive communion but u jst don't sing the songs of happiness for lent is a season of sorrow
While First Communion usually takes place in May, there is nothing that forbids it during Lent.
You mean why is it done during Lent? Because lent is the particular time of the year that christians focus on their sins and repent, and baptism is the washing away of sins. Also the end of Lent is when christ rises from the dead and removes from us our sins.
Catholics are required to receive Communion once a year between the liturgical time period surrounding Easter.
The Episcopal church, as part of the Anglican communion, celebrates Lent.
Catholic people do not have specific dietary restrictions in their faith. They are free to eat a wide variety of foods, but some may observe fasting on certain days as part of their religious practices.
The short answer is because they are required to, the longer answer is that Confession is a sacrament set up by God so that our post-Baptismal sin can be forgiven. Everyone, saving Our Blessed Lord, and His Mother, is a sinner before God. We cannot draw breath and not sin, even in the "perfect" who still commit inadvertent venial sin. We must receive Holy Communion as Our Blessed Lord told us point blank in the Gospel, that unless we receive Him in Holy Communion, there is no life in us. We may not receive Holy Communion in a state of sin, so God has provided the sacrament of reconciliation to us so that we may be worthy to receive Him in Holy Communion. Every Catholic should attend confession regularly, at least bi-weekly or monthly if you are receiving Holy Communion regularly, and once a year during Lent and Easter is absolutely required by the Church as the bare minimum to be a Catholic. To receive Holy Communion in a state of sin is perilous in the extreme as St. Paul points out, and incurs the additional sin of sacrilege.
ashesWe receive ashes which is the penitential reminder on the first day of Lent. Like on Ash Wednesday.
ashesWe receive ashes which is the penitential reminder on the first day of Lent. Like on Ash Wednesday.
The Gloria is not said or sung and the Alleluia is not said during Lent.
Lent is the period of 40 days when Jesus completely fasted. Lent ends with Good Friday i.e. the death of Jesus Christ. Lent is a period of penance and remembering the sufferings and pain of Jesus Christ. Therefore it's good to abstain from meat during the season of Lent.
there is never no mass celebrated during lent
During Lent.