Lent

[frandowdsofa]

We didn't "do" Lent when I was a child. The symbolism of it, from Ash Wednesday through to the Stations of the Cross was a bit, well, Papist. In Mam's Austerity household there wasn't a lot to give up, anyway. We usually spent Lent in England and Easter in Wales, so we missed out on the continuity in a worship community. My first real experience of

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[la_marquise_de_]

For me, it's still tied to the academic year. It tends to fall in half-term, which in many universities is a reading week with no teaching. And thus it's a point of intensive lecture-writing.