Lent is a season in the Christian Church which focuses on repentance, peneitance, devotion and renewal. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. This is a total of 40 days, excluding Sundays.
Lent is commemoration of the temptation of Jesus Christ and also the Last Supper, His betrayal, arrest, crucifixion and death. Three days later, however, He was raised from the dead. This festival is called Easter.
It is a tradition in the Western churches to "give up" a pleasure or comfort during Lent.
Lent is commemoration of the temptation of Jesus Christ and also the Last Supper, His betrayal, arrest, crucifixion and death. Three days later, however, He was raised from the dead. This festival is called Easter.
It is a tradition in the Western churches to "give up" a pleasure or comfort during Lent.
Kelly gave up chocolate and television for Lent.
Lent is the time for Christians to fight especially hard in their spiritual warfare against evil and worldly lusts, and to focus on the righteousness and new life we have through Christ.
Lent is the time for Christians to fight especially hard in their spiritual warfare against evil and worldly lusts, and to focus on the righteousness and new life we have through Christ.
by talkshow_on_mute February 11, 2005
A Christian/Catholic holiday in which you give up something such as candy, cracking your knuckles, etc.
by Lisa February 28, 2004
The time of the year 40 days before Easter that remembers both the 40 days of Jesus's temptation in the desert by Satan and the 40 years the Jews wandered the desert with Moses. Is also the time of year when your parents force you to church more and they make you give stuff up.
I gave up chocolate for Lent.
Sorry, I'm going to miss that party because my parents are forcing me to church again.
Deadpool gives up killing for lent.
Sorry, I'm going to miss that party because my parents are forcing me to church again.
Deadpool gives up killing for lent.
by ihatechurch March 11, 2011
Noun. The forty days of prayer, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial that prepares Christians for Holy Week and imitates Jesus’ own period of fasting, meditation, and temptation in the wilderness. Today it is popular among the pseudoreligious, who abstain from nominal vices such as swearing and eating chocolate. For these vacuous individuals, Lent is a compromise to the taxing, 365-day commitment New Year’s resolutions demand.
by F.S.B.O. April 1, 2011
Lent is also a terrible time to be a lobster.
by Some Guy Wearing Jeans March 6, 2010
by Dragonsden22 January 1, 2021
A common typo for rent.
“Yo eddy, what would you give up for lent? Mines $600 a month and I’d give up just about anything”
“Yo eddy, what would you give up for lent? Mines $600 a month and I’d give up just about anything”
by Wolf5112 February 14, 2018