THE PHENOMENA OF LENT IN ROMANIA NOWADAYS
THE PHENOMENA OF LENT IN ROMANIA NOWADAYS

Summary/Abstract: This article is based on a research about the Lent in our society to demonstrate the capacity of people to understand the spiritual meaning of Easter today. For my study, I used meta-analytical method and questionnaire to understand better the phenomena of Lent. It represents a necessity of people to go through a certain “magical time”. In the period before Lent, people are trying to adapt to the new rituals. The Lent is in fact the most important threshold for Christians. The ethnologist Arnold Van Gennep considered that people are transforming themselves from what they were to what they will be through participating to Easter threshold. The rites of passage in the case of Lent has a sacred signification where people are proving its value. Lent is consisting in forty days in which people have restriction to food from animals, to alcoholic drink and other things that will give pleasure. Lent is more about humbleness. Romanians are trying to participate in Lent, but, not many of them acquire their full attention and respect to it. Lent started to become more a symbolic gesture where people are aware of it, but are not effectively participate in it.

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