Season of Lent

Lenten Season
• Lent recalls the Passion of our
Lord.
• Lent is a forty – day period
preparing for Easter.
• It begins on Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday – marks the
beginning of the season of
Lent where ashes are marked
on our forehead.

Ashes symbolize repentance

and mortality.
Biblically upon the imposition
of ashes, the minister will say:

“Remember that you are dust

and to dust you shall return.”
We need to observe the following
Lenten sacrifice this season:
1) prayer
2) fasting (for 18-60 years old)
3) abstinence (for 14-60 years old)
4) almsgiving
 Holy Week (last week of Lent)
• Events
– Palm Sunday – the start of the
holy week where palms are
waved to remind us of Jesus’
entry to Jerusalem.
• Holy Thursday – the day we
celebrate the Last Supper
»(washing of feet,
breaking of bread and
drinking of wine)
• Good Friday – the day Jesus
carried His cross and died at
Mt. Golgotha
• Black Saturday – the day
Jesus was lying in His tomb
– Joseph of Arimathea – took the
body of Jesus from the Cross
- Easter Vigil – happens on the
evening of Black Saturday
- Preparing for Jesus’
resurrection
Church Tradition (Philippines)
Salubong – angels are singing
and there is a procession
 Easter Season - is the
greatest feast of Christian
faith that celebrates Christ’s
rising from the dead.

- It is celebrated for 50
days which ends on
Pentecost.
1) Pentecost - is the 50 day
th

of Easter when the Apostles

received the Holy Spirit.

2) Ascension of Jesus - is
40 day of Easter when
th

Jesus went up to heaven.