during lent, do we count Sundays?
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no, Sundays do not count when you add up the 40 days of Lent.  Some people use that as a loophole to take a break from their Lenten resolutions, but I disagree.  I think they don't count Sundays because they are holy days already.
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Sunday.\n\nFormula:\nf = k + [(13*m-1)/5] + D + [D/4] + [C/4] - 2*C.\n[x] means roumnd down to an integer\nk = day of month\nm = month number\n( March = 1, Apr. = 2, etc. jan and feb are 11 and 12 of previous year)\nd = last 2 digits of year\nc = first 2 digits of year\n\nOnce we have found f, we divide it by 7 and take the remainder (if the remainder is negative, add 7). A remainder of 0 corresponds to Sunday, 1 means Monday, etc.
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Sunday starts the week\n\n\nand Monday starts the business/school week
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Seven years ago I considered it last, but in America it is the first, so since I consider it as first. In other cultures and countries, sunday is a middle day. Iraqi's work week is Saturday through Thursday.
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I and my family do every Easter. We do it to suffer along with Jesus during lent. It brings us to understanding his sacrifice.
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Saturday: 4:00 PM \nSunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 12:00 NOON \nHoly Day: 9:00 am, 12:00 NOON, 7:00 PM (except legal holidays) \nMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday : 9:00 AM \nThursday: 9:00 AM (Scripture Service) \nFriday: 12:10 PM \n\nWhen I moved in to a new area I went to the church address and saw the times on the door/ in their newsletter.
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Ash Wednesday is 46 days before Easter Sunday
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Fasting is one of the three methods of interior penance along with prayer and almsgiving. \n\nMany Catholics voluntarily give up meat on every Friday not only during Lent.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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When you give up something for Lent, you give it up for the duration of Lent.  The "Sundays Off" loophole refers to those holy men/women who took vows of silence for Lent.  This allowed them to still pray in Church on Sunday.
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It doesn't say that Sunday is the true day of worship.  Sunday became the day of worship, as opposed to Saturday, after the split between the Synagogues and the Church in the 300's AD.\n\nIt also was used in this fashion to honor the day upon which Christ was resurrected.
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Western Christianity\nIn Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at Easter Sunday.\n\nThe week before Easter is very special in the Christian tradition: the Sunday before is Palm Sunday, and the last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for "Three Days"). In some countries, Easter lasts two days, with the second called "Easter Monday". Many churches start celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a service called the Easter Vigil.\n\nEastertide, the season of Easter, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts until the day of Pentecost, seven weeks later.\n\n\nEastern Christianity\nIn Eastern Christianity, preparations begin with Great Lent. Following the fifth Sunday of Great Lent is Palm Week, which ends with Lazarus Saturday. Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues for the following week. After Lazarus Saturday comes Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and finally Easter itself, or Pascha (Πάσχα), and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately followed by Bright Week, during which there is no fasting, even on Wednesday and Friday.\n\nThe Paschal Divine Liturgy generally takes place around midnight, into the early morning of Pascha. Placing the Paschal Divine Liturgy at midnight guarantees that no Divine Liturgy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent "Feast of Feasts" in the liturgical year.
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Ash Wednesday, today, is the beginning of the Catholic religious season of Lent.  Lent is a time period where most Catholics choose something to give up (often sweets, dessert, porn, gambling) that they tend to indulge in.  It is a period of 40 days when Catholics remember the 40 days Jesus fasted in the desert and his ultimate sacrifice at the end of Lent, Good Friday.  Marti Gras (french for Fat Tuesday) has traditionally become the time for celebration as a last big fling before Lent arrives and people try to restrict themselves more.  Also, during Lent, Catholics are supposed to avoid meat other than fish on fridays.  On Ash Wednesday, Catholics go to a church service during which the entire congregation processes up to have the priest place ashes on their forehead as a reminder that "of dust we were made and to dust we shall return" and our own mortalities.
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Easter and Holy Week that leads up to it starting with Palm Sunday, then Holy Thusday (The Last Supper), then Good Friday (The Cruxifiction).  Plus Ash Wednesday, which is 40 days before Easter.  Followed by Christmas.
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Saturday night and sunday morning\n\n=0)\nGood luck
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no, Good Friday is not a national holiday, it is a religious holiday. It reflects upon the day that Chirst was crucified on the cross, and that 3 days later (Easter) He rose again.
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Well for the readers, The Christians gathered on the first day of the week, to celebrate the ressurection. This is why most Christians go to Church on Sunday. \n\nHowever, Since Christians rest in Jesus, everyday is a Sabbath day!!!!
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Nothing. Lent is a pagan observance. Lent was first observed in Assyria and Palestine in the month of June. In Egypt it was the month of May when it was kept. When it finally migrated to Britain this pagan fast was observed in April. It seems to be a most flexible fast suitable for any type of pagan idolatry. For I notice that in 1950 the Roman Lent begins in February! \n\nRome's method of enveloping Babylon's Lent and incorporating it into her ritual should he noticed. About the year 525, Rome, pursuing her usual policy of absorbing the pagan observances and in order to gain nominal adherents to the church, engineered a new religious merger. Under the shrewd management of the Abbot Dionysus the Little, the pagan Lent was established as a church observance. And so the Church, now controlled from Rome, and fast sinking into every form of corruption, added yet this evil of a "sacred fast" to her list of idolatries. In his manipulations to fit a 40-day Lent into the calendar this same Dionysus caused the approximate date of Christ's birth to be changed four years later than the truth. This change of calendar brought in the grossest corruption and rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. It was only the beginning of another form of Roman evil.\n\nLeave Lent alone. It will contaminate you.