So when is Lent OFFICIALLY over?

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iheartdance said:
Congrats on no beer for lent! It’s ends on Holy Thursday night between 8 and 12.
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And immediately after that is the strictest day of Fasting and Abstinence in the entire church calendar: Good Friday. Your Lenten fast may be voluntary, but Good Friday is anything but. (Yes, I know beer is not on the list of prohibited foods, but there is such a thing as obeying the letter of the law while thumbing your nose at the spirit of the law.)

Bottom line: That beer is going to have to wait a little longer.
 
Nan_S said:
And immediately after that is the strictest day of Fasting and Abstinence in the entire church calendar: Good Friday. Your Lenten fast may be voluntary, but Good Friday is anything but. (Yes, I know beer is not on the list of prohibited foods, but there is such a thing as obeying the letter of the law while thumbing your nose at the spirit of the law.)

Bottom line: That beer is going to have to wait a little longer.
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Stricter than Ash Wednesday??

Of course, unlike AW, if one immerses one self in the spirit of the Triduum, the last hours of fasting and abstaining will not be uppermost in one’s mind!🙂

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Nan_S said:
And immediately after that is the strictest day of Fasting and Abstinence in the entire church calendar: Good Friday. Your Lenten fast may be voluntary, but Good Friday is anything but. (Yes, I know beer is not on the list of prohibited foods, but there is such a thing as obeying the letter of the law while thumbing your nose at the spirit of the law.)

Bottom line: That beer is going to have to wait a little longer.
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well, I guess I will be in confession AGAIN this weekend. But it’s okay, if it takes God my entire life to mold me, than His will be done. He and He alone!
 
LITURGICALLY, Lent ends with the Holy Thursday Mass. But personal Lenten commitments don’t need to follow the liturgical calendar. There are no rules for it. I would recommend that you follow the age-old tradition of maintaining the observance until the Easter Vigil. You need it to make 40 days and it’s more consistent with the spirit of penance that the Church wants us to maintain until the Easter Vigil.

Personally, I don’t intend to start smoking again even on Easter.
 
just_came_back said:
well, I guess I will be in confession AGAIN this weekend. But it’s okay, if it takes God my entire life to mold me, than His will be done. He and He alone!
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Whatever you choose to do for lent is your personal commitment. Breaking that does not rise to the level of mortal sin. If you had made some commitment to pray more or something like that at another time of year and fell down on your commitment, you would just resolve to do better. Do the same now. Go to confession regularly as well. 🙂
 
Mrs_Sally said:
Whatever you choose to do for lent is your personal commitment. Breaking that does not rise to the level of mortal sin. If you had made some commitment to pray more or something like that at another time of year and fell down on your commitment, you would just resolve to do better. Do the same now. Go to confession regularly as well. 🙂
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Thanks. I have had some fellow Catholics tell me breaking your lenten vows IS mortal sin.

Some people live to be scrupulous.
 
Traditionally (and this is the Traditional Catholicism forum), the fasting of Lent ended at noon on Holy Saturday (which was a day of fasting and abstinence until noon). However, this practice dated from the age when the Easter Vigil Mass was anticipated and said on Holy Saturday morning. With the shift of the Easter Vigil Mass back to the evening in 1955, I would say the most probable opinion is that the fasting of Lent ends at the intonation of the Gloria at the Easter Vigil Mass, after the baptism of catechumens. Or if you don’t attend the Easter Vigil, midnight as Holy Saturday turns to Easter Sunday.
 
And keep in mind that indulging just because Lent is over makes zero sense - the even more solemn Triduum will have just begun. This is why the old Lenten regs, say from the time of Dom Guéranger, should be restored 👍
 
Here is a quote from Dr. Taylor Marshall’s blog from last week,

“The statues remain covered until the Gloria of Holy Saturday. This is the moment at which the fast of Lent ends and the glory of Easter begins. This unveiling reveals that Christ has revealed himself as risen and victorious.”
 
On the Eastern calendar, yesterday was the last day of the Great Fast/ Lent. Holy Week is a separate liturgical period. I believe in the current Western calendar, Lent ends with the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s supper, but Good Friday is still a day of Fast and abstinence, even if it isn’t technically part of Lent, and the faithful are encouraged to fast on Holy Saturday as well.
 
babochka said:
On the Eastern calendar, yesterday was the last day of the Great Fast/ Lent. Holy Week is a separate liturgical period. I believe in the current Western calendar, Lent ends with the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s supper, but Good Friday is still a day of Fast and abstinence, even if it isn’t technically part of Lent, and the faithful are encouraged to fast on Holy Saturday as well.
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Yes, because the Triduum is a separate liturgical season. It is no longer Lent.
 
I noticed that some of you said you have to go to Confession since you were unable to keep your fast from whatever it was you chose to give up. Is that really considered grave matter? If so then I haven’t been confessing this sin all Lent. I had chosen to give up cigarettes and Diet Mountain Dew for Lent but was unable to do so for practically all of Lent. I seriously hope that it wasn’t a sin.
 
Personal lenten sacrifices are absolutely not binding in the sense of grave matter. I don’t even think they’re considered to be venial sins.

Practices mandated by the Church must be followed (fasting on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Friday abstention) and are grave matter if violated.
 
If you want to be sure you’re correct without spending the time to research the answer, you could say: Lent is officially over when the Easter season begins.

Brilliant! 😃
 
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Holly3278 said:
I noticed that some of you said you have to go to Confession since you were unable to keep your fast from whatever it was you chose to give up. Is that really considered grave matter? If so then I haven’t been confessing this sin all Lent. I had chosen to give up cigarettes and Diet Mountain Dew for Lent but was unable to do so for practically all of Lent. I seriously hope that it wasn’t a sin.
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I don’t recall anyone saying that that HAVE to go to confession; only that they DID go, or that speaking to a confessor would be helpful. That’s quite a difference.
 
SonCatcher said:
Close. The Triduum begins immediately before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. So Thursday evening is part of the Triduum, but the rest of Thursday is part of Lent!

The Triduum is 72 hours, so it continues until afternoon on Easter Sunday. This is the only time of year where a liturgical season doesn’t start/end at midnight.
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Um, no, the Christmas season begins with First Vespers of Christmas, and then a Vigil Mass, both of which are on Christmas Eve… And the Triduum ends with the beginning of the First Mass of Easter after dark on Holy Saturday, the Great Vigil of Easter.
 
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