Fast in Lent because?!?

[dallas_r]

Lol same here

Good luck my friend!

 

[20101310]

Thanks, and same your way !!!

 

[BartholomewB]

Very true but Id love to know more about the story of lent. How long has it been going on? Who started this tradition as we know it today?

Historically, Lent seems to have been introduced in stages, something like this:

(1) In some local church or churches, somewhere in the Western Roman Empire, the custom was to fast for the last day or two in Holy Week. When this began is not known.

(2) Around the year 300, give or take, some unidentified churchman had the idea of extending the fast to forty days, on the strength of the Gospel account of Jesus’ forty days’ fast in the wilderness.

(3) When Constantine was attempting to standardize Christian worship throughout the Empire, the forty-day Lenten fast was one of the practices he told all the churches to adopt. He may have done this at the Council of Nicaea in 325 or he may have done it a few years later. All that is known for certain is that the practice became widespread at some point in the 330s.

 

[Mary888]

We mortify our bodies to join Christ on His Cross before Easter. Like He said :" those who wish to join me give their selves up and take your crosses."
40 days because it is a biblical number - the Ninivetean for example fasted for 40 days, Christ fasted for 40 days in the desert.
We don’t just contemplate His crucifixion like Pilataes did, we join Him.