Word: lente
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...Lent, the great Christian penitential season, began this week all over the world. In Europe, it will scarcely be noticeable: large parts of the Continent have been fasting, wearing sackcloth, and living amid ashes for several years. Even in one of Europe's best-fed countries, Cardinal Bernard Griffin last fortnight told his London archdiocese: "We are free to eat whatever we can obtain...
...Orleans rousingly revived its carnival, a wartime casualty, before facing the minor austerities of Lent. U.S. Protestants again showed their increasing interest in Lent as part of "the collective experience of our historic Christianity," took over theaters in many cities to preach Christ's significance to noonday crowds...
...Lent or Lockup? The custom of penitential preparation for every feast was inherited by the early Christians from the Jews. Early penitents in the Holy Land observed Lent by eating only two meals a week. But St. John Chrysostom (4th Century) did not urge such Spartan austerity for the multitude of believers...
...cardinals were too ill to come to Rome; two more lay abed in Rome with flu. Cardinal Mindszenty, who arrived late from Budapest, was delayed by the Russians, would not have reached Rome at all but for a plane lent by the U.S. military mission in Hungary...
...Ceteris Partibus. In London Archbishop Bernard Griffin, youngest cardinal designate (46), retrieved the flowing cappa magna of the late Cardinal Kinsley from the Gainsborough Film Studios (to whom they had been lent for a Paganini movie), had it altered to fit, set out for Rome...