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Friars Corner: Lent and spring cleaning

Friars Corner: Lent and spring cleaning

Lent is a forty-day period of some fasting and abstinence from Ash Wednesday, excluding Sundays, until Holy Saturday in remembrance of Jesus’ 40-day fast in the desert before he began his public ministry. Those old enough and not yet 65 are required to not eat meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. You are free...