{"id":18729,"date":"2013-02-11T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18729"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:00:54","slug":"the-transformation-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-transformation-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"The transformation of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Lent used to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer\u2014through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events of the Passion of Christ on Good Friday, which then culminates in the celebration on Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>During Lent, many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxuries as a form of penitence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, it can be anything from a windmill tilting extravaganza of <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/barmy-anglicans\/a-carbon-fast-for-lent\/\" target=\"_blank\">combating anthropogenic global warming<\/a> to the Diocese of Niagara\u2019s invitation to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" target=\"_blank\">have another shot<\/a> at building a collectivist utopia :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18730\" alt=\"Diocese of Niagara - Lent\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lent.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"271\" \/>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Lent used to be: The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer\u2014through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-transformation-of-lent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,2189],"class_list":["post-18729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-lent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}