When does Lent end? Midnight tonight?

[stray bullet]

When is the official ending of Lent? It is tonight at midnight, noon today or at sundown tonight?

I'm going to an Easter Vigil tonight and it just seems weird I'd have communion, because it is officially Easter (sundown), but I'd wait until midnight for Lent to be over?

I was/am abstaining from something for 40 days of Lent (Lent sans Sundays).

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

Traditionaly the periods are as follows liturctically
Ash Wensday through Saterday of the week of Ash Wensday are a prepitory period
First Sunday of Lent through the morning of Holy Thursday are Lent
starting the afternoon of Holy Thursday is the Tridumm
and this evening virgil's begin the season of Easter till pentacost.

Since giving something up is a personal devotional there is no hard line to say one thing is the proper pratice.

 

[stray bullet]

What is the traditional practice though? When people give up things for 40 days, when do they normally resume, hourwise?

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

As its always been a personal devotion, your not going to find agreement or authority on the correct method of doing it

Rember the requiments for teh faithfull
are to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of obligation. Communion and confession at least once a year during Easter. No meat on Fridays of Lent, fast on ash wensday and good friday, and peance of some firm the rest of the Fridays of the year.

And even those things have expextions.

Whats good for one soul could be bad for another soul. This is why the doctors of the church stress obedicine to spirtural directors.

Assuming you don't have a spirtural director to ask at this time, my suggestion would be to meditate on why you gave up what you did, what your orginal plan was to do, and if you going take it back up the moment your "legaly" free to, does that thing have control of you or you controll of it.

 

[D'Ann]

For me, after Sunday Mass, I'm having what I gave up for 40 days. (I hope that is okay). I don't know the answer either.

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

For me, after Sunday Mass, I'm having what I gave up for 40 days. (I hope that is okay). I don't know the answer either.

its ok its a personal devotion between you and your spirtiral director if you have one