EPISODE · Feb 18, 2026 · 2 MIN
Lent and the significance of “forty days”
from The Up Devotional · host Matthew Ruttan
Today is Ash Wednesday. It marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period (excluding Sundays) leading up to Easter. The word itself, Lent, was chosen for convenience. It traces to an old English word for “springtime,” lencten. More literally, it means “lengthen,” which is a reference to the lengthening of days after a long, dark […]
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