Saturday, March 11, 2017

Why is Lent for 40 days?

Why is Lent for 40 days?



The Lenten duration of 40 days is practiced in imitation of the 40 days Jesus was in the desert. 


"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights and afterwards he was famished." (Matthew 4:1-2)

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