{"id":3945,"date":"2018-03-06T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2018-03-06T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:44:32","slug":"lent-the-40-days-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/lent-the-40-days-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent, the 40 Days Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLent\u201d is the yearly time of fasting for Christians that lasts up to 40 days. In other words,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Celebrate-Lent\"> Lent<\/a> is a \u201cperiod of sacrifice leading up to Jesus\u2019 death and Resurrection,\u201d in which Christians fast, pray and reconcile. Occurring from Wednesday February 14th until Saturday March 31st this year, Christians practice their fasting process based on their religious morals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In this stage, Christians start fasting on a Wednesday that is known as the \u201cash Wednesday\u201d and break it on the holy Saturday. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calendardate.com\/lent.htm\">religious period<\/a>, believers are not allowed to to eat animal products, or to commit any religiously unethical behaviors like smoking and sex in order to stick to purification, instead, they must focus on resolving their sins.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fasting is not only about food exclusion, it requires to ban committing sins with the five senses like Mariam George, media figure and miss Egypt of 2015, said, \u201cyou must fast with all your senses. Your eyes should not see anything bad or sinful, your brains should not think of immoral stuff, you cannot lie or talk behind someone\u2019s back, and your ears, as well, shouldn\u2019t listen to sinfuls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Moreover, it is obviously impossible one can stay 4o days without food for 40 days, but Lent created a diet plan that prohibits and permits specific foods. It depends on the sect. Some Christian confessions allow dairy while others do not. Also, some allow eating any type of meats on Sundays only. \u201cI like that it is encouraging you to cut down on fast food for a good period of time, since most it isn\u2019t fast viable,\u201d Andrew Girgis, a finance student in AUD elaborates. \u201cAlso being vegetarian, although not for me, does feel great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition to ash Wednesdays, Fridays too are considered important to abstain meats on them; it is as sinful as on the Wednesdays. Maria Andrew, a highschool student, explained, \u201cLent seemed to be limiting at the beginning, but it became easier and actually so healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Last but not least, people of other beliefs are also compassionate \u00a0with Christians. AUD Journalism Professor Yasmine Bahrani is already encouraging her friends, explaining, \u201cI am fasting in solidarity, just respecting what my Christian friends are going through.\u201d It is already halfway there to celebrating easter!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Photo Credit:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkwearmouthcofe.com\/lent.html\">http:\/\/www.monkwearmouthcofe.com\/lent.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLent\u201d is the yearly time of fasting for Christians that lasts up to 40 days&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}