Because it also comes before the penitential season of Advent, it is seen as a mini "carnivale", with all the feasting and bonfires.

Lent is a major penitential season of preparation for Easter.

Of similar construction is a melody of northern origin associated by English Jews with the penitential season.

"Remember that during this penitential season, the Jewish community comes before God," he said.

Related popular practices are associated with celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations associated with the penitential season of Lent.

And not even at Easter, exactly, but in Lent as a substitute for opera, which was thought too blatantly entertaining for that penitential season.

Most religious traditions have their penitential seasons and regular occasions, when the faithful are enjoined to "search your deeds."

Kate Heggarty's state might alter perilously during the penitential season.

They also retained the violet or black vestments for the penitential season.

Lent is a penitential season, and "Firestorm" is a penitential book.