Lent

The season of Lent began on Wednesday. My husband and I were discussing it last night. I'm Lutheran and he was raised Mormon, but is inactive. He had no idea what Lent was or represents. That's okay. I wouldn't expect him too. However, he cracked me up hard when he said, "I just assumed it was the past tense of lend". Oh my, another "ism". LMAO! In case you're interested, here's the proper definition of Lent, as borrowed from Wiki.
Lent, in most Christian denominations, is the forty-day liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter.[1] The forty days represent the time Jesus spent in the desert, where, according to the Bible, he endured temptation by Satan.[2] Different churches will calculate the forty days differently.

The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial—for the annual commemoration of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, as celebrated during Holy Week, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.