What festival is Lent?

Lent, also known as Lent, is a Christian fasting period.

1. Festival time: from the first day of Lent to the day before Easter. Lent begins on Ash Festival, which is located in the seventh week before Easter.

2. Festivals or behaviors: People scatter ashes on their heads and clothes to show remorse or remorse. Lent is considered as a time of repentance, so turning gray is considered as an appropriate external expression of inner regret.

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The origin of lent;

1, Jewish traditional fasting before Passover. Passover is the most important festival for Jews, commemorating their ancestors who, led by Moses, broke away from the slave life in Egypt and entered the promised land given to them by God.

2. In the early days, the church practiced the habit of being baptized on the eve of Resurrection Day. Christians believe that through baptism, they become the people of the exiled God. After being saved from evil, they gird their loins and March towards the promised land-the kingdom of heaven.

By dying of sin and living in eternal life, they really lived and experienced the miracle of passover with Christ (Romans. 6: 3- 1 1). Because of this, Jesus Easter was soon considered to be a particularly suitable time for baptism, because baptism is the resurrection day of Christians, and transcendental miracles are also resurrected in them.

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