What Is Lent?
The period preceding Easter which is devoted to fasting.
For 40 days Jesus suffered in the desert, he had no food just water.
Lent starts March 5 which is Ash Wednesday and ends April 17, which is Palm Sunday. Lent is a time to say sorry. In Lent we have to give up something important to our lives. But in the future we now use the ashes to do good actions and good things. For 50 days after Easter we feast.
In the olden days they used sack clothes and ashes to show their remorse remorse to God, when they to do what Jesus told them in the Bible. They wear the sack and sprinkle ashes on their body. Ashes are made from palm leaves, it gets burned then it gets turn into black, dark ashes.
When we receive the ashes on our foreheads it will remind us to, turn away from sins and wrong doing. We have to follow the right path to God and do the right thing. Lent is color purple because, Jesus wore a purple robe around him.
In April 20 Jesus died for our sins, so we will be able to do good. He suffered on the cross just to save us from evil.
1 comments:
Hi Kevin,
I liked the describing words you used in your explanation of what happened.
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