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*’ash wednesday’ (a day of ‘fasting’) is the first day of ‘lent’ in ‘western christianity’*
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(it occurs ’46 days’ (’40 fasting days’ if the 6 ‘sundays’ (which are not ‘days of fast’) are excluded) before ‘easter’ and can fall as early as ‘february 4’ or as late as ‘march 10’)
(‘ash wednesday’ is observed by many ‘western christians’, including ‘anglicans’, ‘lutherans’, ‘methodists’, ‘presbyterians’, and ‘roman catholics’)
(according to the ‘canonical gospels’ of ‘matthew’, ‘mark’, and ‘luke’, ‘jesus christ’ spent ’40 days’ fasting in the desert, where he endured temptation by ‘satan’)
(‘lent’ originated as a mirroring of this, fasting ’40 days’ as preparation for ‘easter’)
(every ‘sunday’ was seen as a commemoration of the ‘sunday’ of christ’s ‘resurrection’ and so as a ‘feast day’ on which ‘fasting’ was ‘inappropriate’)
(accordingly, ‘christians’ fasted from ‘monday’ to ‘saturday’ (6 days) during ‘6 weeks’ and from ‘wednesday’ to ‘saturday’ (4 days) in the preceding week, thus making up the number of ’40 days’)
(‘orthodox’ do this ’40 days in a row’)
(‘ash wednesday’ derives its name from the practice of blessing ‘ashes’ made from ‘palm branches’ blessed on the previous year’s ‘palm sunday’, and placing them on the heads of participants to the accompaniment of the words “repent, and believe in the gospel” or “remember that you are ‘dust’, and to ‘dust’ you shall return”)
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“actually didn’t remember that…thanks for reminding me though!”
😉you silly old virgin you!😘
(almost had us all fooled!)
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