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In the English-speaking Christian world, [t]he period including 40 weekdays (Mondays to Saturdays) extending from Ash-Wednesday to Easter-eve, observed as a time of fasting and penitence, in commemoration of Our Lord’s fasting in the wilderness
(spring
(Dalmais), a sense in which it is now obsolete. It has been used since Anglo-Saxon times to translate the Latin term forty days
(lit. the fortieth day
), from which most other European languages derive their word for Lent (Thurston).
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In the English-speaking Christian world, [t]he period including 40 weekdays (Mondays to Saturdays) extending from Ash-Wednesday to Easter-eve, observed as a time of fasting and penitence, in commemoration of Our Lord’s fasting in the wilderness
(spring
(Dalmais), a sense in which it is now obsolete. It has been used since Anglo-Saxon times to translate the Latin term forty days
(lit. the fortieth day
), from which most other European languages derive their word for Lent (Thurston).
Dalmais suggests that Lent may have originated in the late third century in the ascetic practices of Egyptian monasteries (Dalmais). However, how and when Lent was first instituted is a matter of conjecture. Twentieth-century Church scholars rejected an Apostolic origin for the custom (Thurston). Lent was—and, in the Roman Catholic Church, still is—related to the final period of preparation of adult candidates for baptism and to the congregation’s preparation for the Easter duty of reconciliation, as the sacrament of penance or confession is now known. While Lent recalls
Sundays are not fast days, so the Lenten period actually stretches over more than forty days. Since the sixth century, Lent has begun on the Wednesday preceding the first Sunday of the fast period. This day has been known as Ash Wednesday since about the tenth century, when the custom began of marking the forehead with ashes (Thurston).
In earlier times, only one meal a day was allowed, and all meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products were forbidden (
The observance of Lent continued in the
of the abuses of the butchers, in private selling of meat during Lent, with proposals for rectification of the same(
for restraint of killing and eating flesh in Lent, and for regulations to be observed by the butchers thereupon.
Bald indicates that royal proclamations of Orders in Council regarding Lent were made annually, and that they increased in severity until
Lenten observances are no longer legally regulated in England. The season is now observed in both the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches by abstention from festivities, acts of charity, and prayer, rather than by fasting and abstinence from meat, except, in most locations, on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (