Alpine festivals vary from country to country and often include the display of local costumes such as dirndl and trachten, the playing of Alpenhorns, wrestling matches, some pagan traditions such as Walpurgis Night, and in many areas Carnival is celebrated before Lent.

In some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church it is customary for the bishop to visit each parish or region of the diocese some time during Great Lent and give Anointing for the faithful, together with the local clergy.

Since the 2002 edition, the Apostles ' Creed is included in the Roman Missal with the indication, " Instead of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, especially during Lent and Easter time, the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles ’ Creed, may be used.

The German holiday of Fastnacht, or Fasnet, as it is known in the Black Forest region, occurs in the time leading up to Lent.

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

During Lent, capybara meat is especially popular in parts of South America, especially in Venezuela, as the Catholic Church, in a special dispensation, is claimed to have allowed eating capybara meat when meat consumption was otherwise not allowed.

This day, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins, is also known as Mardi Gras, a French phrase which translates as " Fat Tuesday " to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins.

Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

In Western Christianity, Easter is preceded by Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, which begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts forty days ( not counting Sundays ).

The last week of Great Lent ( following the fifth Sunday of Great Lent ) is called Palm Week, and ends with Lazarus Saturday.

Among the Oriental Orthodox, a variety of anaphoras are used, but all are similar in structure to those of the Constantinopolitan Rite, in which the Anaphora of Saint John Chrysostom is used most days of the year ; Saint Basil's is offered on the Sundays of Great Lent, the eves of Christmas and Theophany, Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and upon his feast day ( 1 January ).

The best known of these writings is the Prayer of Saint Ephrem which is recited at every service during Great Lent and other fasting periods in Eastern Christianity.

His feast day is celebrated on 28 January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers ( Cheesefare Saturday ), which is the Saturday before the beginning of Great Lent.

* Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest ; celebrated on the first day of Lent.

This corresponds to the Christian tradition of fasting for forty days in Lent ; a practice that is not witnessed earlier than the Council of Nicaea ( 325 ).

This book is one of the most widely-read among Orthodox Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which immediately precedes Pascha ( Easter ).

* Earliest day on which Laetare Sunday can fall, while April 4 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

* Norman F. Lent, former member of the U. S. House of Representatives

* Norman F. Lent, Conservative Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

John Lent ’ s participation in and authoring of the opening chapter of the, initially, serialised Kalamalka Chronicles, a community writing project initiated by The Sun Review newspaper and the Kalamalka Institute for Working Writers, emphasises the degree to which he experiments with narrative form and authorship.

He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1814. gained the Craven university scholarship and the chancellor's classical medal and served as Secretary of the Cambridge Union Society in the Lent term, 1817.

He also became President of the Cambridge Union Society in Lent Term 1889.

In the Lent term of 1851 he delivered the Bampton Lectures, taking as his subject ‘ The Communion of the Saints: an Attempt to illustrate the True Principles of Christian Union ’ ( Oxford, 1851 ).

Lent ’ s fiction and poetry have appeared for years in magazines across Canada, including: The Malahat Review, Event, Dandelion, Grain, The Wascana Review, NeWest Review, Prairie Fire, CV2, New Quarterly, Waves, Matrix, The Fiddlehead, and The Antigonish Review.

Lent has read from his work in many cities in Canada, and internationally.

Lent reads his work in many cities in Canada, the United States, France, and England.

John Lent is a Canadian poet and novelist, as well as a college teacher of creative writing and literature.

* John Lent, Canadian poet and novelist

Early French Canadian Catholics considered beaver to be " four-legged fish " that could be eaten at Lent.

His honors included the Fraternal Order of Court Officers Bench and Bar Award, the Criminal Courts Bar Association's Norman F. Lent Award, the Fordham Law Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award, the DeStefano IndustriesAnnual Award, and the Court Officer's Benevolent Association of Nassau County Fidelis Juris Award.

Association Football is also played during the Michaelmas and Lent terms.

* Abundance: The Mackie House Conversations about the Writing Life-2007 ( with John Lent )

Today in the USA, carnival is primarily associated with Mardi Gras, a time of revelry that immediately precedes the Christian celebration of Lent ; during the modern Mardi Gras, ordinary life and its rules and regulations are temporarily suspended and reversed, such that the riot of Carnival is juxtaposed with the control of the Lenten season, although Bakhtin argues in Rabelais and His World that we should not compare modern Mardi Gras with his Medieval Carnival.

Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent as well as on other traditional fast days in Western Christianity ( this tradition still continues among the Eastern Christian Churches ).

In Eastern Christianity, the spiritual preparation for Pascha begins with Great Lent, which starts on Clean Monday and lasts for 40 continuous days ( including Sundays ).

They can be eaten as a light meal with potatoes ( especially during Lent, in lieu of fish or meat ).

This council is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite as " The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy " each year on the first Sunday of Great Lent — the fast that leads up to Pascha ( Easter )— and again on the Sunday closest to October 11 ( the Sunday on or after October 8 ).

For approximately the past century, it has taken the form of an organized festival held during the 10 days preceding Lent ( according to the Greek Orthodox calendar ).

Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha ( Easter ).

The Psalter ( Book of Psalms ) is normally read through once a week during the course of the Daily Office ; however, during Great Lent, the number of Psalms is increased so that the entire Psalter is read through twice during each of the Six Weeks ( during Holy Week it is read through once ).

Icon of the Annunciation, the most important feast day on the Liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church | fixed calendar that can fall during Great Lent ( Church of St. Clement of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia ).

In the Slavic liturgical traditions, Zacchaeus Sunday occurs on the fifth Sunday before the beginning of Great Lent ( which starts on a Monday ).

The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph of the Church over the last of the great heresies which troubled her ( all later heresies being simply a rehashing of earlier ones ).

It remains in the center of the church through Friday of the week following ( the Fourth Week of Great Lent ).

Great Lent ends at Vespers on the evening of the Sixth Friday, and the Lenten cycle of Old Testament readings is brought to an end ( Genesis ends with the account of the burial of Joseph, who is a type of Christ ).

All of the remaining days of the ecclesiastical year, until the preparation for the next Great Lent are named for the day after Pentecost on which they occur ( for example, the 13th Tuesday After Pentecost ).

Frumenty was served with meat as a pottage, traditionally with venison or occasionally porpoise ( considered a " fish " and therefore appropriate for Lent ).

The use of these terms was abandoned by the Catholic Church in the 1970 calendar reforms ( the Sundays before Lent are now simply " Sundays in ordinary time " with no special status ).

* Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Western Christian tradition, occurs forty six days before Easter, ( forty, not counting Sundays ).

Generally, the liturgical seasons in western Christianity are Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time ( Time after Epiphany ), Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time ( Time after Pentecost ).

The first portion extends from the day following the Feast of the Baptism of Christ until the day before Ash Wednesday ( the beginning of Lent ).

The Carnival of La Louvière is called Laetare, after the Latin verb meaning “ to enjoy ” ( the introit at mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent begins Laetare Jerusalem, Rejoice Jerusalem ).

Lent, Maribor | Lent, the old part of Maribor ( Slovenia ).