What is the reason for lent.?

My interest isn%26#039;t to bash lent, i just want some history or biblical reason to give up meat on fridays

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Invented by the Catholic church. And here is the scarry part. Read 1 Tim 4:1-4. It forbids it yet they practice it. Think about that.

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Oh, you said lent|||so the church can laden its followers with guilt...to keep them weak and pathetic..|||%26quot;The 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday until Easter observed by Christians as a season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter Resurrection.%26quot;

We do this for the love of God shown us in the sacrifice of His son for our sins.

+|||I can%26#039;t remember. It has been soooooooo sooooooooo long since I believed in celebrating such a season.|||It is a time of atonement and forgiveness|||It%26#039;s a fishmonger conspiracy.|||Lent for us is a time for reflection, repentance and renewal. Abstaining from meat is just like fasting. You give up something as a sign of thanksgiving for the Lord%26#039;s sacrifice. That is how I look at it personally.

Peace and every blessing!|||The original purpose of the pre-Pascha fast (now known as Great Lent) was the fasting of catechumens who were being prepared for baptism and entry into the Church. However, it quickly became a time for those who were already Christian to prepare for the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. It is the living symbol of man%26#039;s entire life which is to be fulfilled in his own resurrection from the dead with Christ. It is a time of renewed devotion: of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a time of repentance, a real renewal of minds, hearts and deeds in conformity with Christ and his teachings. It is the time, most of all, of return to the great commandments of loving God and neighbors.

During Great Lent we follow the example set by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who fasted on our behalf forty days and forty nights (Matt. 4: 2). Also during Holy Week, which comes after the 40 days, we live the Passion of Christ day by day and hour by hour. Because of the significance and holiness of Great Lent, the Church designated a week of preparation to precede the 40 days. The Church is teaching us to prepare for Great Lent in a spiritual manner. We fast to prepare ourselves for the 40 holy days. In fact, the preparatory week is not the only fast which the Church designated to get us ready for Great Lent and Holy Week. Two weeks prior to Great Lent there is Jonah鈥檚 Fast, also known as Nineveh鈥檚 Fast. It is a short fast, only three days, and it is a fast of repentance. During this fast, we live with Jonah his fasting and repentance in the whale鈥檚 belly. We also live with the Ninevites their fasting and repentance. Just as the fasting accompanied by repentance saved Jonah and the Ninevites from perdition, also our fasting accompanied by repentance will save us from eternal destruction and death due to sin.

Great Lent is an Apostolic Fast as mentioned in the Didskalia (chapter 18) the following: %26quot;Great Lent should be honored before Holy Week. It starts on the Monday following the Saturday and is completed on the Friday preceding Holy Week. After it, you must pay great attention to Holy Week and fast it with fear and piety.%26quot; In Canon 69 from the Canons of our Fathers the Apostles, the following is mentioned: %26quot;Any bishop, priest, deacon, reader, or chanter who does not fast Great Lent or Wednesdays and Fridays shall be excommunicated, unless he has a physical ailment. As for a lay person, he shall be excluded.%26quot;|||Its a catholic thing (Lutheran, Anglicans, and its offspring). Its not so much %26quot;lent%26quot; as is %26quot;what%26quot; comes before lent. Lent is the ceremonial %26quot;giving up%26quot; of a fleshly (sinful) desire. It is a time of repentance before the resurrection of Christ. It has become a %26quot;token%26quot; ceremony, it really does not mean much at all. It was, at one time, a serious time of reflection and remorse over the sins we have committed. Now just another worthless ritual.

Now, %26quot;what%26quot; comes before lent? Depending on where you live- Mardi Gras, Carnival, Holiday, and so on. Some cultures are more involved than others. It is a time of pure pagan revelry. People get drunk, take drugs , get involved in orgies, the most immoral bizarre behavior you can imagine. Why??? Because the last day of this sinful indulgence, Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, is the the day before Ash Wednesday-the beginning of Lent. So-let it all hang out, do the most vile sins you can think of because tomorrow we repent.

How sick-and they call it Christian!

Makes you wonder don%26#039;t it?|||Quadragesima or Lent is a time of abstinence, sacrifice and a Christian counterversion of the Islamic Ramadan. It is a reflection of Iesvs Khristos in the desert for 40 nights and days stated in the new testament. It is a 40 day preparation for the crucifixion and ressurection of Jesus.