Lent is the great timeout during the Super Bowl of Life:
A period of 40 days, excluding Sundays, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday when Christians reflect on Jesus' temptations in the desert. We are called to participate in the Lenten season through prayer, fasting, and alms giving.
According to Ted Olson, author of "The Beginning of Lent," lent is a time of "self-examination and patience demonstrated by self-denial." It is a season for reflection, which is supposed to imitate Jesus' withdrawal into the wilderness for 40 days.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "540... "For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sinning" [Heb 4:15]. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert." Pasted from <http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/lent.htm>
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