Happy Eastertide, faithful readers. I’m sad to say that this is the final blog post of this series. I sincerely hope you have enjoyed traveling through Lent and into Easter with me, and that you have learned as much as...
Here it is, the much-anticipated new post on the weekly blog about Lent. This week’s post will answer the obvious question regarding Lent: “What is fasting, what does it do and why participate?”
Defining fasting
Well, fasting is the wil...
It’s Andrew again, back for another round of Lent facts. This week the post is all about the origin of Lent.
Origin of the Lenten fast
Well, the church fathers around the fifth century claimed that the Lenten fast was of apostolic i...
My name is Andrew Entzminger. I’m a junior journalism major and I’ll be bringing you all of the latest Lent happenings over the next seven weeks. I will touch on such exciting topics as what Lent is, why we celebrate it, ho...
