Lent season is a Christian tradition where the believers make themselves ready for Easter by practicing self denial, penitence, prayer and charity. Easter was the period in which Jesus was reincarnated and the time before that is spent in doing all the things that would make the true believer out of the ordinary man.
Lent season usually begins on the Ash Wednesday and lasts for a total of forty days. The duration of lent season is specific because readers of the Bible believe that Jesus spent the duration of forty days in the desert before he started his own ministry for the public. In the bible it is written that it was after that Jesus opened the ministry that he was tempted by the devil, Satan.
Lent season is believed to have originated as a byproduct of subsistence agriculture when farmers and they’re families were careful about how much they consumed because there were certain times in the year when crops would start to run out and the next harvest would be too far away for the food supplies to last. The other source or origin attributed to Lent season is that the catechumens would spend a specific amount of days before Easter Vigil in extremely concentrated praying and fasting rituals to prepare them for baptism.
In the duration of the Lent season only three things are expected of the believer if he chooses to participate in the righteous way, the first of them is to pray which he must do every day with enthusiasm, the second is fasting while the third is charity. How the believer chooses to do these things is up to him or her as long as the actions and traditions are kept with honest sincerity.
Lent Season
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