What is Lent the Catholic holiday?

Answer 1

The Catholic Church and many other Christians Churches follow the Biblical practice of Jesus Christ and the Jews in setting aside days where the entire Church fasts and prays as one in a attitude of constant renewal.

By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert and in spiritual preparation for the celebration of His Passion, Death, and Resurrection.

This season of penance is an intense moment of the Church's penitential practice and are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and charitable and missionary works.

The Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches also observe the season of Lent. Many modern Protestant Churches consider the observation of Lent to be a choice, rather than an obligation.

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Answer 2

Lent is a season of the Catholics, you can give up something for lent. e.g sweets, chocolate.

Roman Catholic AnswerLent is the forty day preparation for Easter. Those forty days are based on the forty days that Our Blessed Lord spend fasting in the desert. Before Vatican Council II, the rules for Lent were much stricter than they are at present. Catholics back then had to fast on every weekday (Monday through Saturday, only one full meal a day). We still fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and abstain (eat no meat) on all Fridays, and Ash Wednesday. Lent is the time set aside for you to take stock of your spiritual life and try to give it a good going over. Most people try to attend an extra Mass during the week, Stations of the Cross on Fridays, and to make a good confession in preparation for their "Easter Duty": all Catholics (who have made their First Communion) are required to receive Holy Communion during Easter.

Answer 3

Lent is the season that precedes Easter in the liturgical calendar, just as Advent is the season that precedes Christmas.

The name "Lent" refers to its being the "slow" season of the liturgical year, due to (in some traditions) practices of self-denial traditionally observed as a preparation for Easter.

Answer 4

It is a season where Catholics prepare for Christmas