Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter.

Jesus invites us to do penance and to join him into the desert. When we let go our our passions and worldly desires we quiet our hearts and so we can finally hear him speaking directly to us, and prepare ourselves to receive him fully during Holy Week.