Where Does Lent Come From, and Why Do We Celebrate it? How quickly did the Church start celebrating Lent? Why is it forty days? Was it always this long? What role have the popes played in fixing the Liturgical calendar for Lent and Easter?
Many of the answers to these questions are found, or at least hinted at, in a recent piece by Tim Kimberley of Reclaiming the Mind (the blog of the Protestant ministry Credo House), fittingly called A Short History of Lent. It's a good start, but Kimberley gets a number of details wrong, and omits a whole lot. So let's use the article as a jumping-off point...
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