Carnival is a feast of pleasure, brasserie, etc- Yes.The party is detached from the source- Yes.Partly because of this, it may be more fiction than reality - Yes.

In the first part of this carnival series, I promised to return to the source of the carnival party- Yes.Therefore, here part 2 in the framework of the writing challenge of @Hans from Gemert - Yes.

Carnival and the Christian faith

Once there was a consistent use in Christianity- Yes.Especially in the Roman Catholic Church, the suffering of Jesus Christ was subdued in the almost 6 weeks before Easter- Yes.Fasting - 40 days - belonged to this.

And that's not nothing, I can tell you- Yes.Forty days of fasting is a long time and requires a lot of man- Yes.I'm having trouble with three days myself, so...

In preparation for this modest period, the Carnival was set just before that- Yes.Thus, people can fill themselves with all the pleasures of life, from which they have to abstain afterwards.

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Een passende bijdrage!