Lent
in Malta:
Lent
is a time of penance and preparation for holy week which starts
on Palm Sunday (Hadd il-Palm), and ends with Easter Sunday(Hadd
il-Ghid), - the celebration of the risen Lord. Preparations
for these solemn festivities usually commence forty (40) days
before Easter Sunday on Ash Wednesday which in itself is the
first day of penitential period following the end of the Carnival
celebrations. Although many still observe fasting and abstinance.
Rules in this respect have now been relaxed considerably, and
obligatory fasting is now limited to Ash Wednesday and Good
Friday (Il-Gimgha l-Kbira). There are also people that do not
eat meat every Wednesday and Friday and sweets through these
40 days...
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We have also put up our traditional Kwarezimal
and Figolli recepies.
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