Do Protestants celebrate Lent?

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For me, there is no LENT or Advent, or anything out of the ordinary. This is where the LDS meetings are a letdown, not even a picture of Christ on a Cross for Easter. That would be good if the LDS did display a picture of Christ on a cross on Easter Sunday, but NOPE they don’t.

I usually go to some catholic MASS’s during LENT.
 
When I was prot I had never even heard of Lent. It was one of my favorite things to learn about. I love the whole concept of preparing ourselves spiritually for Easter. Of course as a prot we didn’t need to prepare for anything, we were all going straight to heaven no matter what we did :rolleyes: . One of the main reasons I became Catholic, I know I am a sinner in constant need of repentance, not a one-time altar call to save me forever.
 
awantz said:
Three days before Sunday is Thursday.
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Oh dear… :whacky:
Yes, but Our Lord rose on the third day - the first being the day of the Crucifixion, the day of His death.

The Gospels do not leave any doubt there: Christ was crucified, then had to be taken down and entombed soon because the Sabbath (that starts on Friday evening) was approaching. Then His disciples kept the Sabbath, and on Sunday in the early morning hours, the women went to the tomb, which they found empty. That’s what is in the Gospels.

Christ rose on Sunday, the first day of the week (remember, the Jewish and traditional Christian week ends on Saturday), the day of the New Creation.
 
lumendelumine said:
Oh dear… :whacky:
Yes, but Our Lord rose on the third day - the first being the day of the Crucifixion, the day of His death.

The Gospels do not leave any doubt there: Christ was crucified, then had to be taken down and entombed soon because the Sabbath (that starts on Friday evening) was approaching. Then His disciples kept the Sabbath, and on Sunday in the early morning hours, the women went to the tomb, which they found empty. That’s what is in the Gospels.

Christ rose on Sunday, the first day of the week (remember, the Jewish and traditional Christian week ends on Saturday), the day of the New Creation.
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Yes, I know that. I was just responding to someone else who was saying that three days before Sunday is Wensday. That makes absolutly no sense. I don’t know how they would figure that.
 
jonfan said:
Yes but Friday + Saturday + Sunday = ?
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Yes, that equals a total of three days, but not three days BEFORE Sunday. Anyway, they said Wendsday and either way you put it Wendsday is wrong.
As far as the Thursday before Easter. What about Holy Thursday? Thursday is important, too.
 
Here is an interesting article I gleaned from the rather conservative Baptist Standard on the value of Lent.
baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=4691
Clingenpeel hopes for the same focus. While River Road has been “a Baptist church since its inception,” he wants his church to join the “larger liturgical tradition” as well.
“It allows us, in a mystical sense, to worship with believers around the world,” Clingenpeel said. “We want to be a part of the Christian community that celebrates that tradition.”
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My family attended a Southern Baptist church during my first 5 yrs., and Church of God (nearly identical to Assemblies of God) thereafter. I was an adult before discovering that any Christians celebrated religious holidays other than Christmas and Easter. I don’t think anyone was really prejudiced against the idea of a liturgical calendar, because no one had heard of such a thing. (If they had, though, they’d probably have considered it a distictively Catholic accretion.)

There are Episcopalians and Methodists in the Bible Belt, and of course the big cities have a little of everything, but I think that a distinct majority around here, even if they knew about the concept of Lent, would do a double-take and have to think for a second before understanding what you were talking about.
 
Charlie_Zeaiter said:
Sorry, but the crucifixion took place of Friday 3rd April, 33AD. There was a lunar eclipse that day to prove it.

I written about this before on a different thread…
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=1706005#post1706005

A Wednesday crucifixion is a foolish argument that some Saturday Sabbath keepers use to try and win support for their cause (continuing the argument that Jesus was resurrected on a Saturday).
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I havn’t managed to read the article yet, I’ve only scaned it.

Do you know if it was a Jubilee year in the Jewish calender?

It would have to be a Jubilee year because Jesus fulfilled the law and Jubilee years were the years when everyone’s debt got wiped out and Jesus paid the debt for our sin that day.
 
jonfan said:
Do Protestants celebrate Lent? If so what do you do during Lent. If not how do you prepare for Easter (that is if you believe in Easter Sunday).
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I’ve been brought up Anglican,

we’ve always been aware of lent as a family and this year no one’s done anything although I’m secretly fasting for it… I’ve always known of sunrise services, and all the key services mentioned in the thread…maunday thursday, ash, palm sunday etc etc…

I have been kinda surprised that the OP thought that some Christians may not celebrate lent and Easter…and then even more surprised that some actually don’t!!!

How can any Christian not do these things? especially celebrate key Easter events? It’s kinda ‘the whole point’.
 
The issue of Jesus dying on a day other than Friday is not new, as is the issue of celebrating Easter on a Sunday. See the Easter controversies and the Eastern Asian practice of the Quartodecimans, who celebrated Easter on the 14th of Nisan:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartodecimanism

Interesting…Melito of Sardis, a Saint in the West and East, was a Quartodeciman. Ultimately this was declared heretical at one of the ecumenical councils (Ephesus perhaps?)
 
jonfan said:
Do Protestants celebrate Lent? If so what do you do during Lent. If not how do you prepare for Easter (that is if you believe in Easter Sunday).
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Forgive me for saying that you seem extremely naive of other churches. Of course some Protestants celebrate Lent. Anglicans and Lutherans come to mind right away.

Of subject a bit, but where do you think your Adven Wreath came from?? Not the Catholic church my friend. It’s origin is Lutheran.🙂
 
jonfan said:
Do Protestants celebrate Lent? If so what do you do during Lent. If not how do you prepare for Easter (that is if you believe in Easter Sunday).
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I don’t know if “celebrate” is the right word, but every church I’ve attended has observed Lent and has had weekly services on Wednesday. When I was younger, my mom always tried to have my brother and I give something up, though it has been harder since I’ve started to go to grad. school. But I am looking forward to Easter, not only to see my family, but to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord.

-Mike
 
Is there any reason why a three-year old long dead thread has been resurrected here?
 
The Churches out of the Magisterial Reformation (Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodist, etc.) keep Lent, some even keep Holy Week.

The Churches which came out of the Great Awakenings in the US and “Radical” Reformation generally got rid of the Calendar, considering it was “Crypto-Roman.”
 
I grew up attending a very traditional Reformed Baptist (Calvinist) church. To give you a sense of the type of church this was, and still is, there were former Mennonites and Amish that attended this little church, still wearing their traditional clothes. There was never any observance or mention of Lent, Ash Wednesday, or Maundy Thursday. Palm Sunday was mentioned, but hardly observed with any special significance, and although Good Friday may have been mentioned, there were never any services or events on that day to commemorate the significance of it to my knowledge. Were Palm Sunday not on a Sunday I doubt there would have been any mention of that day actually! I am now 24 and where I now live I’ve been attending a similar church for about 6 months. I guess because this type of worship is comfortable for me and I have always agreed with the conservative doctrines preached (although as God begins to reveal things to me I’m finding problems here). At the same time though I have been studying and reading about Catholicism, praying, and of course watching EWTN, for a number of months now. I have been intrigued by Catholicism for years, mainly because of the blessing of EWTN probably, but over the past several months I’ve begun to take it more seriously and believe that God is guiding me into a fuller communion with Him through His Church.
But to get back to what brought me to this thread, the more I learn the more I feel my upbringing deprived me of the beauty and truth available in observance of a liturgical year and the holy days. At this new church I’ve been attending, I was very discouraged on Palm Sunday this week when there was not a single mention of the day during the entire service or at a meal and mingle I attended afterwards. I’m coming to understand that this is a time of year when the meaning and mystery of Christ’s life should be meditated on and these observances are very important to forming a relationship with Christ and growing in your faith. It’s ironic to me that so many evangelicals often view Catholics as not having a ‘personal relationship with Jesus,’ but I grew up in an evangelical atmosphere and am now realizing that a truly satisfactory relationship with Christ is only available through what the Catholic Church seems to offer. How can you have a personal relationship with Jesus if the events of his life aren’t observed and meditated on in the way that Lent and Holy Week prescribe?! It’s all very ironic to me.
But to answer you question, there are many Protestants of the conservative Calvinist persuasion for whom Lent might as well be Ramadan.
 
jonfan said:
Do Protestants celebrate Lent? If so what do you do during Lent. If not how do you prepare for Easter (that is if you believe in Easter Sunday).
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Yes in my Lutheran Church We do celebrate Lent. We have a Maundy Thursday and a Good Friday service as well as an Easter Vigil service Saturday Evening I was raised Catholic and spent forty two years as a Catholic. The two things that surprise me the Most are how similar the Lutheran and Catholic liturgy is and how little average Catholic know about Church History. and ancient forums of worship. I have learned far more in education hour in my Lutheran church than forty two years as a catholic. I listen to Catholic radio and I am amazed at How Mr Blackburn and Mr Madrid attack non and former Catholics.
 
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