What is Lent? Lent, a Teutonic word originally meaning 'the spring season', has been celebrated for at least 1500 years. It is a time of self-examination and repentance and corresponds to the 40 days and 40 nights Jesus spent in the wilderness, coming to an end on Easter Eve, counting inclusively. Sundays are for 'joyful celebration' and not days of 'discipline and self-denial' and so are not officially part of the fasting of Lent.

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