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Roman Catholics will watch the first Friday of Lent today, generally considered with the following six Fridays until March 30, Good Friday, as a Day of Sacrifice, in arrangement for the grave recognition of the Holy Week, which starts on March 25, Palm Sunday.
With crosses set apart on their temples with slag, parishioners light candles at the Baclaran Church in Parañaque City on Ash Wednesday, which denotes the beginning of the Lenten season – a period for reflection and contrition for Catholics. (AP | Manila Bulletin File Photo) 

As a Day of Sacrifice and in accordance with the penitential character of Lent, numerous will endeavor to keep away from meat on every one of the seven Fridays of the 40-day Lenten recognition as a type of contrition. 

The Lenten season formally started yesterday, February 14, Ash Wednesday. 

Today and on all Fridays of Lent, numerous generally supplicate the Stations or Way of the Cross (Via Crucis), which reviews the Passion of Christ, the occasions going before His torturous killing, demise, and restoration. 

The faithfuls are likewise urged to go to admission, to perform demonstrations of philanthropy, forbearance, and compensation, and to visit the reverence house of prayer beside the standard practices done amid Lent, for example, petition, donations giving, and evangelist work.


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