How about encouraging children to view all Lenten activities as ways to watch and wait with joyful hope? Q: What family traditions do your family share during the season of Lent?

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The restaurant is also running Lenten lunch specials every Friday. Owner Kattie Shott said they will go through about 50 to 70 pounds of fish on Friday nights for Lent.

The men were engaged in a Yaqui Lenten ritual in the shadow of the freeway interchange. This was the weekly Friday ritual that is the run-up to the Yaquis’ Easter celebrations.

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The Church understands that certain people are not able to commit to the Lenten fast. The time of Lent, through fasting and abstaining, may be an important reminder of what it means to suffer.

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