When is the official end of lent when you can start doing all the things you gave up fir Lent?

[sweetkitty]

DP and I are having a debate he says it's Saturday as Good Friday is the end of the 40 days, I say it's Easter Sunday.

Think he is chomping at the bit for chocolate, crisps and biscuits.

I think it's today. Tomorrow is Good Friday, which is also a day of abstinence.

Twas always Easter Sunday when I was growing up.

The church building will still be in "lent mode" - no flowers or colourful drapes etc - until midnight Saturday/Sunday, so I think it should be then really...

Easter Sunday, or if you go to the vigil service the night before, after that!

Erm, isn't it Palm Sunday, when Jesus came back from the desert and all that? I thought Lent represented the 40 days and nights in the desert.

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But then I was never very good at RE in my convent school....

I always thought it OUGHT to be Palm Sunday, and I find the logic a little weird for this , but the Sundays in Lent don't count as part of the 40 days, which then brings us up to Easter Sunday.

The 40 days is from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) - and the reason the numbers look wrong is because Sundays are not counted as part of Lent.

So actually, you could have been having the chocolate etc on all the Sundays in Lent, without it counting