What is Lenten season all about?

Answer 1

The purpose of Lent is that it is part of Plam Sunday and that is when Jesus risen from the dead and when God was living they said that he could not eat meat for 40 days so that is way we have Lent

ANSWER

The cultural reason for Lent was to make a religious season out of the time when, traditionally, food stores were running out as the winter dragged on and, since people were starving anyway, the season of Lent would make them feel better about it. Around the time of Easter, Spring crops were beginning to come up, the sheep were birthing their lambs, etc. and so food was again available.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

The Liturgical Year consists of basic "seasons:"

Advent- This season is penitential in nature, though with an emphasis on longing and hope for the messiah. This season runs four weeks and takes place prior to Christmas.

Christmas: This season runs approximately two weeks and celebrates the birth of Christ. This season begins on December 25 and ends on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

Lent: This season like Advent is penitential in nature, but unlike Advent is far more solemn and somber. Lent is a time when the Church Universal takes a bit of a retreat. The season hearkens to the 40 days and 40 nights Jesus spent in the desert fasting and praying prior to beginning his ministry. The Church in this season goes with Jesus into the desert and spends more time in prayer and fasting---praying over the power of sin in our lives and what it's destructive power; what it cost Jesus to save us from our Sins.

Easter: This season comes after Lent and begins on Maundy Thursday. The season runs 50 days and ends with the Feast of Pentecost. During Easter the Church celebrates in a special way Jesus as vanquisher of death, risen in Glory.

Ordinary Time: This season takes time to remember the various events in Jesus teaching ministry.

Answer 4

The season of Lent is a time set aside for people to deny the flesh (by fasting some kind of fleshly need or desire) and focus on spiritual growth through prayer and reflection. It specifically commemorates the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness fasting and being tempted by Satan. Yet, despite the temptation, Jesus remained firm and refused to give in to Satan's temptation. Lent is a time for people to reflect on Christ's suffering and to practice discipline, as well as pray.

Roman Catholic AnswerLent is specifically about repentance and conforming one's will to the Will of God in order to celebrate Easter more worthily. Lent is a time that one should be more intense in one's practices, particularly the "big three": prayer, fasting, and almsgiving-without which we shall not be saved.

Answer 5

During lent, various Christians celebrate Jesus and the events leading up to His crucifixion and resurrection. We celebrate the fact that Jesus has fully paid the price for our sins by dying on a cross in our place. We celebrate that He has fully defeated death and that we can go to heaven through Him.

Most Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican faiths regularly observe Lent as a part of their liturgical calendar, whereas Protestant denominations generally consider observation of Lent a choice today. Baptists, who are technically not considered Protestant, have traditionally not practiced Lent, since it is not mentioned in the Scriptures.

While the honor of Christ' sacrifice for man's sins, what He had to do in enduring the Cross, His death and burial, culminating in His resurrection, may be in mind during the observance of Lent, there is no occasion of this practice in the New Testament. The Lord's Supper is observed, as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice and death, and the practice of meeting on Sunday, the first Day of the week, is a celebration of the resurrection of Christ, not only on Easter, but all year.

The observance of Lent, making personal sacrifices, can be a good spiritual practice, yet also has degenerated, with some to such things as Mardi Gras, into a mockery of good, by doing wicked things prior to the season of Lent. The thought of some is that we should always seek to do good, all year around. A conscientious person may find spiritual value in the practice.

Answer 6

People celebrate lent mainly to remember the 40 days of fasting in the wilderness.

Answer 7

To give something up and to fast starting at age 14 because Jesus died during the season of lent.