Lent

The season of Lent is a season for fasting and prayer. Catholics choose something to give up for forty-six days before Easter Sunday. Catholics receive ashes on their foreheads in the sign of the cross which symbolizes the dust when God made us. Palm Sunday is the final day of the season of Lent. Catholics receive palms for the representation from when Christ made it back to the Jerusalem grounds. On that…

(Don Quijote). “Carnival originated from a Roman celebrations and extended throughout Europe during the Middle Ages” (Don Quijote). It is celebrated by nearly everyone right before Lent, during lent people restrict themselves of some things that they love, so during Carnival they drink and party without control so lent would not be so intimidating or difficult to…

A Virgin Mary statue in a family chapel in Argentina stunned worshippers after it started weeping “blood” during Lent, eyewitnesses have claimed. Photos that have made their rounds online show the Virgin Immaculada Concepcion de Maria with red liquid falling from its left eye. Its clothes are also seen stained with the same color, The Sun details. According to the statue’s owner, whose name has not been mentioned in reports, Mary appeared to him in a dream before the figure “cried blood.” He…

“Hispanic families were raised in a way where holidays are spent with your families, not with the entire world. Family comes first.” ( The author of this quote is unknown, but the truth behind it could not be more accurate. American holidays, like Hispanic holidays, are often spent with family. American and Hispanic holidays, although different, are all based upon their country’s culture. Some major holidays, like All Saints Day, Easter, and Christmas, and some small celebrations such as…

assaulted by the populous. This is already evident as shown in this quote when Norman and Leah first arrived at the farm, Norman’s little sister says, “Seems to me, a man or stout boy would’ve been more useful around, you had to bring one of them home” (Lent 25). His sister, Connie, is alluding to the fact that she is disappointed that Norman brought an African American woman home. Her comment is not nearly as severe as what would occur normally because she keeps it subtle referring to Leah as,…

Steffiny Tsagali is a fellow History major student, of Ghanaian descent. Born in America, she visits Ghana frequently, and well connected to the culture. Steffiny is from the city of Volta, located in the southeastern part of the country, belonging to the Ewe tribe. Ewe is both linguistic and a tribal group of the West African region with a population in Togo and Benin. Both her parents are from different tribes, but because she took her father’s last name, she is a part of his tribe. In…

Parents are obliged to care for, protect and nurture their offspring. However, some parents take this to the level of extreme and unduly worry about their children’s security (Lent, 2016). This contributes to their obsession of supervising and hovering around their children consistently hence earning the label “Helicopter Parents” (Williams, 2016). Helicopter parenting describes the childrearing style of parents who are extremely over protective and barely give their young a chance to breathe.…

abuse can be both direct, causing death, rape or injury; and indirect causing psychological and sociological harm (Stover, & Lent, 2014). Stover and Lent (2014) further explained that while 36 % of women and 28 % of men have experienced either physical or sexual abuse by an intimate partner, many domestic violence services are primarily focused on women and children (Stover & Lent, 2014). Both types of abuse have lasting generational effects when witnessed or experienced by children in the…

occurred to allow the repressed energy and emotions that must remain dormant in the year to manifest. Document 3 expresses the same sentiments as it portrays the contrasting behaviors of the Italians between Carnival and Lent. Those partaking in Carnival are rambunctious, while those of Lent are reserved showing how the Church would allow Carnival in return for obedience in…

Luther wrote many sermons and published them. These eight Invocavit Sermons are arguably his most famous sermons he’s ever written. The interesting thing about these eight writings, though, is that he did not intend on publishing them. However, since they were in fact published, they are now studied for their message and as a way of spreading the Reformation Message, as is a lot of Luther’s work. Another thing that is noted about these are the fact that they were written and preached right after…