A Journey into Lent…
Why is Lent forty days? Lent actually occurs over a forty-six day period prior to Easter. Only forty days count as the penitential season because the six Sundays are omitted. The Church from the earliest times considered every Sunday as a Feast of the Resurrection and never a day of fasting!
The significance of the number forty stems from the forty-day fasts kept by Moses, Elijah and especially Jesus. In the early centuries, a forty-hour fast was kept as a way to prepare for Easter. Changes in practices continued and around the 4th century, the time of preparation for Easter, known as Lent, became established at forty days.
Ash Wednesday has served as the beginning of Lent with a special rite for placing ashes on the heads of penitents since at least the 8th century. Public sinners sat outside the churches with ashes on their heads as penance and as a way of seeking forgiveness for their sins. The practice of repenting of our sins in this special way during Lent came to include all people, not just public sinners. The ashes remind us that in our beginning we come from the earth and that in our ending we return to the earth. In the Anglican tradition this service has been in the Book of Common Prayer since 1549.
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