(Vatican Radio ) In the season of Lent we join Our Lord Jesus in his fast of 40 days.
We devote ourselves to prayer, fasting and almsgiving, so as to prepare ourselves
spiritually for the great events of Holy Week and Easter.
"The text of 'Forty
Days and Forty Nights'," says Monsignor Philip Whitmore," was written in the 19th
century, but some of our Lenten hymns are much older ..." A programme produced
by Veronica Scarisbrick.