What is Lent and when does it begin?
The Christian season of Lent (from an Old English
word meaning “spring”)
is the 40-day period before Easter. Lent traditionally begins
on Ash Wednesday and extends forty days, not including Sundays,
when a certain easing of the fast was allowed. Six weeks of six
days plus the four days starting with Ash Wednesday make up the
forty days.
—Tom
Ehrich
from What
Are You Asking?
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