The Forty days of Lent

Lent is a very special time in the year. Lent is when you receive ash on your forehead and it's kind of a sign of remorse.

The beginning of Lent is called Ash wednesday, another meaning of Lent is when you give up something for forty days and forty nights. When Jesus gave up something he suffered for forty days and forty nights in the desert without food. When you go church you can see that the priest wearing purple which mean it a time of Lent.

Lent starts at Ash Wednesday and ends at palm sunday. Lent is also when you give up something that is important to you.We go through this 40 days so that we can be sorry and have a change of heart.

The ashes are made from the palm leaves like the ones then jesus enter Jerusalem. First the palms get burned and afterwards they get turn into Ash.