40 days and 40 nights is a really long period of time to go without guilty pleasures like chocolate and booze. In fact, giving these things up could even be a bit detrimental to your soul.
Where can you get yummy fried fish during Lent? If you have ever wished there was a list so that you could find one near you it's your lucky day, here is a list of a Friday Fish Fry near you in Northern Colorado.
Today is Ash Wednesday which means it is exactly 40 days until Easter, and also a period of time referred to by Christians as Lent. The traditional purpose of Lent is the penitential preparation of the believer—through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. The main change comes as many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of penitence
Fat Tuesday is your last hurrah, folks, so let the carbo loading begin. Fat Tuesday will give way to a more solemn occasion, Ash Wednesday, and then a 40-day period of self-sacrifice known as Lent. For Catholics and other Christians, Ash Wednesday symbolizes the start of the 40 days Jesus spent praying and fasting in the desert, resisting temptation, before his crucifixion. So that means for tho