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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nThe capybara kap-i-‘bar-uh, When the Spanish missionaries The pretzel has a deep spiritual meaning The Teutonic word Lent, which we employ to denote the forty days’ Carnival means "farewell to meat.”<\/p>\n It was thought that misfortune would come to those who married I have also changed one of my top graphics to this.\n<\/p>\n Normally I am happy face phobic, but I thought this was appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Lent I will continue blogging as a penance for others. I will try to provide you with plenty of punance during this punitential season. I was thinking of giving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhydrochoerus hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South and Central America.
\nIt is the only species in its genus, which belongs to the family Hydrochoeridae,
\norder Rodentia. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nfound the capybara in Brazil during the 16th century, they wrote to the Pope
\nto ask – there’s an animal here that’s scaly but also hairy, spends most of
\nits time in the water but occasionally comes on land; can we classify it as
\na fish (and thus, the indigenous people could continue to eat it during Lent)?.
\nNot having a clear description of the animal (and not wanting the petitioners
\nto starve), the Pope agreed and declared it to be a fish. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nfor Lent. In fact, it was the ancient Christian Lenten bread as far back as
\nthe fourth century. In the old Roman Empire, the faithful kept a very strict
\nfast all through Lent: no milk, no butter, no cheese, no eggs, no cream and
\nno meat. They made small breads of water, flour and salt, to remind themselves
\nthat Lent was a time of prayer. They shaped these breads in the form of crossed
\narms for in those days they crossed their arms over the breast while praying.
\nTherefore they called the breads “little arms” (bracellae). From this Latin
\nword, the Germanic people later coined the term “pretzel.”<\/span>
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\nfast preceding Easter, originally meant no more than the spring season. Still
\nit has been used from the Anglo-Saxon period to translate the more significant
\nLatin term quadragesima (Fr. car\ufffdme, It. quaresima, Span. cuaresma), meaning
\nthe “forty days”, or more literally the “fortieth day”. This in turn imitated
\nthe Greek name for Lent, tessarakoste (fortieth), a word formed on the analogy
\nof Pentecost (pentekoste), which last was in use for the Jewish festival before
\nNew Testament times.<\/p>\n
\nduring lent – “Marry in Lent, live to repent” – because lent was a time for
\nabstinence.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/happylent.gif\")
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