of lent

TAKEN FROM VOLUME V-LENT, OF "THE LITURGICAL YEAR" BY DOM PROSPER GUERANGER The Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast expresses the number of the day, Forty. But our word Lent signifies the Spring-Fast; for Lenten-Tide, in the ancient English-Saxon language, was the season of Spring. Translator.], is the Church’s preparation for Easter, and was instituted at the very commencement of […]