Lent
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Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter.
The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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See also
- Asceticism
- Cold Food Festival
- Counting of the Omer
- Fasting in the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church
- Fasting and abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Fast of Nineveh
- Paczki
- People's Sunday
- Quinquagesima
- Ramadan
- Tisha B'Av
- Vassa
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