When does lent and personal sacrifice end 2020?

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When does personal sacrifice end for lent 2020. Is it Holy Thursday evening after the mass, Good Friday, or Easter Sunday?
 
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Personal sacrifices are just that, personal. There aren’t any rules about that. Do whatever you find most helpful.

-Fr ACEGC
 
They were going to end April 10th. Then that went to April 30th. Now it is the middle of May. 😄

Seriously, like the good Father said, that is up to you. We usually end ours Holy Saturday. It is more of a "(whew)’ Good Friday fasting is over that a “(whew) Lent is over!” It is like the thing about not holding to the Lenten sacrifice on Sunday. Some years I do, some I don’t.
 
When you end yours at Holy Saturday, does that mean you can start doing whatever you gave up on Saturday or Sunday? I’m surprise there aren’t any specific rules for this.
 
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No, it is all personal. For me, I try to give up one thing that costs money so I can redirect the money to our Lenten charity. My wife said she was going to have a big bowl of ice cream tonight ( jokingly, she didn’t) which she gave up based on us sing Alleluia at the Church while we hung the banner for Easter Sunday. Hey, it was the priest’s idea. I never use the “A” word. But it is a weird year and that was the last step of transitioning the church from Good Friday to Easter, and it was only five or six of us.

I have been thinking of all the people that gave up something like going out to eat, or hanging out at the Mall that had an easy second half of Lent.
 
I like to end it with someone else commanding me to end it by their saying, “Take and eat; the body of Christ!”

Jesus ended his 40 days by angels coming and ministering to him - he did not grasp for his own satisfaction as tempted by Satan but waited for life and goodness to be a gift.
 
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When does personal sacrifice end for lent 2020. Is it Holy Thursday evening after the mass, Good Friday, or Easter Sunday?
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Penance is offered throughout the year, especially witnessed in penitential seasons and on all Fridays.

Lent ends (Latin Catholic Church) when the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper begins on Holy Thursday. Triduum continues (with its own penitential practices).

Lent ends (Byzantine Catholic churches - and other eastern) Friday before Palm Sunday. Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday follow and then Holy Week begins (with its own penitential practices).
 
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When you end yours at Holy Saturday, does that mean you can start doing whatever you gave up on Saturday or Sunday? I’m surprise there aren’t any specific rules for this.
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There are no specific rules for “personal sacrifice” because there is no actual requirement to give up something for Lent. It’s a good idea, but it isn’t required.

Personally though, I would say that the spirit of Lent would have you persist in abstaining from whatever it is until Sunday.
 
On Easter.

Of course, you can still keep doing personal sacrifice all year long if you want. The Minims for example practice “perpetual Lent”.
 
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As multiple people have stated, there is no requirement for personal sacrifice and it is not governed by the Church. I personally do not end my personal sacrifice until after the Easter Vigil and encourage all who made a personal sacrifice for Lent to continue for two more days after Holy Thursday evening. While Lent ends on Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence. Holy Saturday is not a joyous day either. The Church does not celebrate Mass and the sacred altar is left bare as “the Church waits at the Lord’s tomb in prayer and fasting, meditating on his Passion and Death and on his Descent into Hell, and awaiting his Resurrection” (Roman Missal). No sacraments are ordinarily administered on those days aside from the Sacrament of Penance and the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. The Church encourages, but does not require, that we continue the Good Friday fast through Holy Saturday until the Easter Vigil (see: http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-wor...information-on-lenten-fast-and-abstinence.cfm).

For me, it makes sense to break my personal sacrifice only after I hear the bells at the Gloria and the triumphant alleluia at the Easter Vigil, as Good Friday and Holy Saturday are not days of rejoicing and celebration.
 
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when the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper begins on Holy Thursday. Triduum continues (with its own penitential practices).
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What he said.

The penances of Lent are a preparation for the death of Jesus; the penances of the Triduum are an experience of the death and burial of Jesus. They are similar and different.

Then Easter comes with shouts of joy!
 
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