springparrot wrote:
But at Mass yesterday, the Father told everyone Lent was over today and confused the heck out of the kids.
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I know that. But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over. (Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
springparrot wrote:
But at Mass yesterday, the Father told everyone Lent was over today and confused the heck out of the kids.
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I know that. But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over. (Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
I thought Good Friday was the day Jesus was crucified? That's why everything used to be closed from 12-3.
springparrot wrote:
But at Mass yesterday, the Father told everyone Lent was over today and confused the heck out of the kids.
Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead.
The thing I don't get, though, is if Lent was over yesterday, how come people still don't eat meat on Good Friday?
Because Good Friday is a day of fasting.
Well I know that. But what makes Good Friday any different from the other non-meat-eating-Fridays that took place during lent?
I sorta already know the answer, but it just kinda seems like a trick. Haha. Lent is over. (Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
Maybe the same reason Catholics got to eat meat on St. Patrick's day this year???
buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
The general law of the Church is that abstinence be observed on every Friday of the year (Code of Canon Law, can. 1252),
but gives authority to the conference of bishops to substitute another form of penance (esp. works of piety and charity) for the Friday abstinence rule (can. 1253).
Thus the U.S. Conference of Bishops has permitted the substitution of other forms of penance on Fridays of the year except in Lent.
In Lent the general law of Friday abstinence is upheld, in the U.S. as elsewhere.
When it goes from full to crescent...I move in and out of tune...Everlasting Moon....
buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
I could be bass-ackwards that's for sure.
I think I always understood it as it happened on Thursday, thus making it Holy Thursday. I guess what makes me think that is tonight after Holy Thursday mass, people stay at the church in shifts (at least at my parents Episcopal church) watching from Thursday evening through Easter Sunday to 'guard the grave.' I know that's not the right terminology.
buffettbride wrote:Lent is over because today is the day that Christ dies. We mourn his death for three nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and Sunday (Easter) is when Christians celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead, thus, "on the third day he rose again...".
Are you sure? I was taught that Jesus died on Good Friday...and hung on the cross between 12pm-3pm. I'll have to check that.
Originating in the fourth century of the church, the season of Lent spans 40 weekdays beginning on Ash Wednesday and climaxing during Holy Week with Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Good Friday, and concluding Saturday before Easter.
When it goes from full to crescent...I move in and out of tune...Everlasting Moon....
Theme:
Retreating Into the Wilderness with Jesus
Dates:
Lent is a forty-day period before Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday. We skip Sundays when we count the forty days, because Sundays commemorate the Resurrection. Lent begins on 1 March 2006 and ends on 15 April 2006, which is the day before Easter.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent officially ends at sundown on 13 April (Holy Thursday), with the beginning of the mass of the Lord’s Supper.
Colors:
In most churches, the decorations are purple, the royal color, to prepare for the King. You can read more about color in worship
The East:
In Orthodox churches, this season is called the Great Lent. It begins on Clean Monday.
Special Days:
Ash Wednesday, 1 March 2006
The Annunciation, 25 March 2006
We count days based on hours. Yet the Jewish culture of the time of Jesus (and maybe still today, I don't know) counted any part of a day as a whole day. So Friday is day 1, Saturday is day 2 and Sunday the day he rose is day 3.
(Mol, I mean this mostly in jest)
