“Most Catholics seem to be aware of the forty-day period before the feast of Easter. Lent, which comes from the Anglo-Saxon work lencten, meaning ‘spring,’ is a time marked by particular rituals, such as the reception of ashes on Ash Wednesday or the decision to ‘give up French Fires’ as a Lenten practice. Is Lent broader than just these practices which seem to be left over from another era?” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lent and Easter Wisdom from Fulton J. Sheen)