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Beginning on Ash Wednesday (22 February in 2023) and lasting for 40 days, Lent is a season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter.

Dates:

2024    Feb 14
2025    Mar 5
2026    Feb 18
2027    Feb 10
2028    Mar 1

The church year revolves around two “cycles”; one centred on Christmas, the feast of the Nativity (birth) of Christ into the world, and one centred on Easter, the death and Resurrection of Christ.

  • The Christmas cycle begins with a season of preparation: Advent.

  • The Easter cycle begins with a season of preparation: Lent.

Lent lasts for forty days to recall Christ’s fasting during His period of  temptation in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11).

To learn more about the Church calendar, click here.

More about Lent: https://bc.anglican.ca/events/liturgical-season-of-lent--697/2022-03-02

and https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/livelent-2022-church-resources-embracing-justice

Fasting?? https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/fast/

Penitence?? https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/penitence/

 

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