40 days to Easter: Lent
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41063
- Author
- Swift, Diana
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 March
- Author
- Swift, Diana
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2014 March
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- "Derived from the old English word for 'lengthen' (as they do in spring), Lent is the 40-day period of prayer, penitence and pondering before Easter". "Lent's liturgical colour is a sombre purple, recalling the royal robe the Roman soldiers mockingly placed on Jesus".
- Subjects
- Lent