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Meaning of cuaresma



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In the Christian liturgy it is the period before Easter, which from Ash Wednesday until Holy Thursday is around 40 days. The name comes from the Latin quadragesima ("forty-a-thousandth").

  



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

It is the period leading up to the Resurrection and begins on Ash Wednesday. It is a special period of recollection and penance for the Catholic faithful.

  

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Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

Lent: f. in the Catholic religion, period of 46 days since Ash Wednesday, even precedes the feast of the resurrection Jesus of Nazateth.

  










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