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Do Sundays Count During Lent?

Some people have said that you are allowed to break your Lenten sacrifice for the day. The reasoning was perhaps the length of Lent.

There is nothing in the Canon Law of the Church or the Catechism that makes laws about what we give up for Lent.  The sacrifice that we make, and St. Augustine’s two wings of prayer: fasting and almsgiving  are all integrated into this time which is a penitential time for us.

Lent is our outward proclamation that all year long, we should be conscious of our sin, and all year long, we should be on a path to conversion. But we’re human, and we don’t think about that all year long, so during Lent, we think about that for six weeks. For roughly 40 days.”

Many people will argue that we don’t count the Sundays during Lent because that would make Lent longer than 40 days.  Sundays do in fact count during Lent, “Lent is neither 40 days whether you count the Sundays or not. Lent officially begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.”  Sundays are still part of Lent. We still celebrate Mass during Lent, and the Sundays are classified in the Roman Missal as a “Sunday of Lent.”

Lastly, much more practically, psychologists say that it takes something like four weeks or longer to change a habit.  The time that they say isn’t something like six days. Six days doesn’t break the habit … If you give up cursing for Lent, would it make sense that you curse on Sundays? No!”