{"id":30121,"date":"2025-03-28T01:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=30121"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:26:01","slug":"is-lent-a-holy-day-of-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/is-lent-a-holy-day-of-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lent a Holy Day of Obligation? No, It Is a Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>No. Lent is a season rather than a day, and holy days of obligation are single feasts. Ash Wednesday fills churches but is not one of them, and the ordinary Sunday obligation runs through Lent exactly as it does through the rest of the year. Is lent a holy day of obligation Is Lent itself considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church? No, Lent itself is not considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent is not a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church; only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday carry that requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[329],"class_list":["post-30121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-easter-in-christianity"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hf620-img_00105.webp?fit=900%2C675&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108260,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121\/revisions\/108260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=30121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}