Lenten season

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• Pre-Lenten Season — The Pre Lenten Season (see also Septuagesima) is the period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.Western ChurchesIn the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches, the pre Lenten season lastis from Septuagesima …   Wikipedia

• Lenten — Lent en, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. [1913 Webster] She quenched her fury at the flood, And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lenten color — Lenten Lent en, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. [1913 Webster] She quenched her fury at the flood, And with a Lenten salad cooled her… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Pre-Lenten Season —    The name commonly given to the weeks preceding Lent covered by the three Sundays entitled, Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima. The Season is so called because the services on these Sundays are intended to prepare us for the due… …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• Lenten Is Come with Love to Toune — (ca. 1300)    One of the best known of the HARLEY LYRICS the group of MIDDLE ENGLISH poems in the British Museum Ms.Harley 2253 is the short poem that begins “Lenten is come with love to toune.” The lyric consists of three 12 line stanzas rhyming …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Lent, The Season of —    The word Lent has no special significance save only as it designates the time of the Fast before Easter. The word is derived from the Anglo Saxon lencten, meaning the spring season. From this we learn that the Lenten Fast means simply the Fast …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• Great Lent — Orthodox church in the Czech Republic vested in lenten colors. Liturgical year Western …   Wikipedia

• Lent — Quaresma redirects here. For other uses, see Quaresma (disambiguation). This article is about the observance of Lent in Western Christianity. For Lent in Orthodox Christianity, see Great Lent. For other uses, see Lent (disambiguation). Acolytes… …   Wikipedia

• Abstinence — • Includes information about old and new testament fasting as well as church laws Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Abstinence     Abstinence      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Canonical hours — Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday. Canonical hours are divisions of time which serve as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In western Catholicism,… …   Wikipedia

• Paschal cycle — 16th century Russian Orthodox icon of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Paschal cycle in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, is the cycle of the moveable feasts built around Pascha (Easter). The cycle consists of approximately ten… …   Wikipedia