Lent

Lent culminates in Holy Week, specifically on Good Friday, which is the day that recalls the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Good Friday occurs two days before Easter Sunday, marking a period of reflection and mourning in the Christian tradition. Lent itself lasts for 40 days, beginning on Ash Wednesday and leading up to Easter, emphasizing themes of repentance, fasting, and preparation for the celebration of the resurrection.

40 days if your a christian

It is actually 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Sunday's are not counted making it 40 days. Don't think it is a "cheat" day though.

A sin is committed. It is a seirous (mortal) sin if the person is above the age of 14 and does not have a special dispensation, knows that it was a sin to do so, and ate meat anyways.

It is a venial sin if it was done by accident (but not through carelessness) or without really understanding this. And of course, there is no sin if it was not done with any consent of the will.

In the case of a mortal sin, a confession is needed. In the case of venial sin, a confession is a good idea, but not required. A normal act of contrition and some self-specified penance is needed.

because that he might get nileed on the cross

Lent is part of christian religion. It is a 40 day period, starting Ash Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras, and ending on Easter. during the period, it is custom to give up something important to represent the 40 days spent walking in the desert, as dictated in the Bible.

No, not in the Catholic church. We start on ash Wednesday with nothing but a variety of sticks, then 3 weeks later add pussy willows. On the 4th week we add yellow forsythia. Then all is removed for Palm Sunday when we show only arrangements made using palms. No color. Not until Easter Vigil.

the word lentes means glasses.

The last day before Lent is called Mardi Gras (French, Fat Tuesday) or Carnaval (Italian, farewell to meat). Since Lent is a time of fasting and abstaining, a time of penance in preparation for the celebration of Easter, the preceding day is a last fling, a party. It is unfortunate that it has become a matter of revelry and excess.

In the Roman calendar in place in 1962, the last two weeks of lent were called (in English), "Passiontide". There were subtle changes in the liturgy during this time to denote the deepening Lenten observance of the passion and death of the Lord... for example, the psalm Iudica me at the foot of the altar was not said. Passiontide started on the second Sunday before Easter (the 5th Sunday in Lent-- the weekend after Laetare Sunday) and was labeled Dominica Prima Passionis (the first Sunday of the Passion). The following Sunday was simply Dominica II Passionis seu Palmis, or "the Second Sunday of the Passion or (Sunday) of Palms". On this day and through the week (Holy Week), the liturgy would become even more solemn with the distribution, blessing, and procession with palm branches on Sunday and the reading of the passions from the different gospels on Sunday and the other days of the week. In the present calendar, Passiontide is more or less equivalent to Holy Week, with little additional outward observance compared to the rest of Lent. Two seemingly vestigial practices are observed in the current liturgy. First, the prefaces of the Passion of the Lord may be used from the fifth week of Lent, on. Second, there is a small note after the Saturday Mass of the 4th week of Lent in the current missal which notes that the crucifix and statues may be covered in the Church, according to instructions from the Conference of Bishops. (I suppose that, based on these observances, one could argue that Passiontide continues to be observed in the last two weeks of Lent with its growing focus on the Passion and death of the Lord.)

"Cell phone" is the direct object in the sentence: You lent Cassandra your cell phone.

Lent commemorates the 40 days Our Lord spent in the desert fasting and praying before He began his public ministry so, yes, it is scriptural.

Yes, that's right. The Roman Catholic rule of abstinence from meat on Fridays used to be for every Friday, all year, every year. Fish has always been ok on Fridays. I believe the Friday abstinence changed at the time of Vatican II, so that it is only in force during Lent

Yes definetly you can.
Yes you can. You can wear any colour on Palm Sunday. Other than celebrants at Palm Sunday ceremonies, there are no rules for colours to be worn by people on Palm Sunday.

Presumably because the pastor or liturgy committee thinks that dry fonts will foster the "desert experience" and the penitential nature of Lent. Regardless of motive, the holy water fonts should not be emptied until after the beginning of the Triduum on Holy Thursday. (Lent ends and the Triduum begins when the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday begins.) On March 14, 2000, the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments released a statement on the practice, saying the following:

The encouragement of the Church that the faithful avail themselves frequently ... of her sacraments and sacramentals is to be understood to apply also to the season of Lent. The "fast" and "abstinence" which the faithful embrace in this season does not extend to abstaining from the sacraments or sacramentals of the Church. The practice of the Church has been to empty the holy water fonts on the days of the Sacred Triduum in preparation of the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil, and it corresponds to those days on which the Eucharist is not celebrated (i.e., Good Friday and Holy Saturday)

Australians who are of the Christian faith commemorate Good Friday in much the same way as the rest of the western world. There is a solemn church service, either first thing in the morning, or during midday, to mark Jesus's hours on the cross. Australians who do not adhere to any Christian faith enjoy the extra long weekend, and many of them use this short break to go camping.

Lent is a time of preperation. It prepares us for Easter, the rising of our Savior. In this, we deny ourselves certain things that give us pleasure, for example, the Orthodox follow a strict fast. It is a time period of 40 days leading up to Easter. It was first started when Jesus went into the desert and abstained from food for 40 days. In this time, Satan tried to tempt Christ, but He denied all temptations.

Lent is observed starting Ash Wednesday, and lasting until Easter. The day before lent starts is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) which, since many Catholics fast during lent, was when Catholics would eat tons of food preparing for their fasting.

Palm Sunday was the fulfillment of a prophecy by Zechariah: "Shout and cheer, Daughter Zion! Raise the roof, Daughter Jerusalem! Your king is coming! a good king who makes all things right, a humble king riding a donkey, a mere colt of a donkey" (9:9). It signified Jesus' coming as Israel's true king and would begin the countdown to his journey to the cross.

His Crucifixion is what made it a Holy Week.

It took place on the Friday of Holy Week - the day we call 'Good Friday'.

The Exodus

Good Friday is the last day of the Lent.