{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.lent","code":"thing-q82866","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q82866/","name":"Lent","alternateNames":["Great Lent"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.KNW"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Lent is the Christian liturgical season of penitence, fasting, and preparation that precedes Easter, counted in most Western churches as forty days (excluding Sundays) from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, while Eastern Great Lent comprises forty days before Holy Week, which forms an additional fasting period.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a Lent observance, establish its tradition-specific timing and current state, and support appropriate preparation and participation without assuming uniform rules.","scope":{"in":["Identification of the Christian tradition and authority that define the observance","Annual Lent boundaries, internal periods, and calendar interpretation","Lenten preparation, penitence, prayer, fasting, abstinence, and charitable practice where applicable","Distinction between communal requirements, recommendations, and personal commitments","Current season state, participation constraints, and transition into adjacent observances"],"out":["Easter and its wider season as independently modelled observances","The complete Christian liturgical year","Detailed models of individual services, sacraments, or devotional texts","Medical suitability of fasting and individual clinical decisions","Personal faith, moral worth, or spiritual attainment inferred from compliance","Administration of charitable organisations and financial transactions"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The observance is identified as Lent by a specified Christian tradition or community; fasting or penitence alone does not establish that identity.","Its annual placement is determined in relation to the applicable Easter observance, rather than by an arbitrary personal retreat schedule.","It has season-level boundaries and practices; an individual fast, service, or devotional exercise may participate in Lent without constituting Lent.","Its relationship to Holy Week and adjacent observances must be stated explicitly, rather than treating all preparation before Easter as one interchangeable period.","Its identity persists despite differences in personal participation; an individual's missed or modified practice does not terminate the communal season."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"lenten-identity-and-authority","name":"Lenten identity and authority","description":"Establishes what the community means by Lent and which authority determines its observance.","layers":[{"id":"recognition-and-extent","name":"Recognition and extent","description":"Distinguishes the recurring season from an annual occurrence and from personal participation.","findings":[{"id":"recognised-lenten-observance","name":"Recognised Lenten observance","description":"Record the community's identification of this season as Lent and the extent of the thing being described.","questions":[{"text":"Which community identifies this observance as Lent, and what name does it use?","id":"recognised-lenten-observance-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Does this description concern Lent generally, a particular year's communal observance, or someone's participation in it?","id":"recognised-lenten-observance-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"governing-guidance","name":"Governing guidance","description":"Identifies the authority and evidence supporting calendar and practice decisions.","findings":[{"id":"applicable-lenten-authority","name":"Applicable Lenten authority","description":"Record the sources that govern this observance and distinguish their authority from explanatory or personal material.","questions":[{"text":"Which church calendar, directive, or community guidance establishes the dates and practices for this Lent?","id":"applicable-lenten-authority-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"When general guidance and local instructions differ, which authority determines what applies here?","id":"applicable-lenten-authority-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"lenten-calendar-and-boundaries","name":"Lenten calendar and boundaries","description":"Locates the annual observance relative to Easter and resolves its start, end, and day-count conventions.","layers":[{"id":"annual-placement","name":"Annual placement","description":"Connects a particular Lent to its governing calendar and Easter occurrence.","findings":[{"id":"easter-anchored-occurrence","name":"Easter-anchored occurrence","description":"Record the year, calendar convention, and Easter reference used to locate this observance.","questions":[{"text":"Which Easter occurrence and calendar convention anchor this year's Lent for the identified community?","id":"easter-anchored-occurrence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What opening and closing dates does the applicable calendar assign to this occurrence?","id":"easter-anchored-occurrence-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"boundary-and-duration-interpretation","name":"Boundary and duration interpretation","description":"Explains which days belong to Lent and how reported duration should be understood.","findings":[{"id":"lenten-day-membership","name":"Lenten day membership","description":"Record boundary inclusivity, day transitions, and any distinction between season length and days counted for a discipline.","questions":[{"text":"At what local or liturgical boundary does Lent begin and end, and are the boundary days included in full?","id":"lenten-day-membership-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"If this community describes Lent using a forty-day count, which days does that count include or exclude, and what does it measure?","id":"lenten-day-membership-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"lenten-meaning-and-practices","name":"Lenten meaning and practices","description":"Connects the community's understanding of Lenten preparation to the practices through which it is observed.","layers":[{"id":"preparatory-and-penitential-purpose","name":"Preparatory and penitential purpose","description":"Records the spiritual purposes the community explicitly associates with Lent.","findings":[{"id":"stated-lenten-emphases","name":"Stated Lenten emphases","description":"Capture the community's account of preparation for Easter and any associated penitential, baptismal, or formative emphases.","questions":[{"text":"How does this community describe the purpose of Lent in relation to Easter?","id":"stated-lenten-emphases-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which authoritative or community sources establish the particular spiritual emphases used in this observance?","id":"stated-lenten-emphases-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"forms-of-observance","name":"Forms of observance","description":"Identifies the practices associated with this Lent without assuming that every community uses the same forms.","findings":[{"id":"lenten-practice-repertoire","name":"Lenten practice repertoire","description":"Record applicable prayer, fasting, abstinence, charitable, communal, and personal practices, preserving distinctions between them.","questions":[{"text":"Which practices does this community associate with Lent, and how does it distinguish fasting from abstinence or voluntary renunciation?","id":"lenten-practice-repertoire-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which of these practices can the agent help plan or support in ways consistent with their stated Lenten purpose?","id":"lenten-practice-repertoire-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"lenten-discipline-and-participation","name":"Lenten discipline and participation","description":"Determines the status and applicability of Lenten practices for particular participants.","layers":[{"id":"obligation-and-custom","name":"Obligation and custom","description":"Classifies each practice by its authority, audience, and applicable days.","findings":[{"id":"practice-status-and-audience","name":"Practice status and audience","description":"Record whether a Lenten practice is required, recommended, customary, or voluntarily adopted and to whom it applies.","questions":[{"text":"For each practice, what source establishes its status and the participants to whom it applies?","id":"practice-status-and-audience-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"On which Lenten days or circumstances does that status change?","id":"practice-status-and-audience-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"exceptions-and-personal-commitments","name":"Exceptions and personal commitments","description":"Handles exemptions, adaptations, and personal intentions without converting them into universal season rules.","findings":[{"id":"appropriate-participation","name":"Appropriate participation","description":"Record only the participant information needed to support applicable guidance, chosen commitments, and unresolved requests for adaptation.","questions":[{"text":"What recognised exemption or adaptation applies, and does it require clarification from a designated authority?","id":"appropriate-participation-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which personal commitments has the participant chosen, and what help or reminders have they authorised?","id":"appropriate-participation-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"lenten-progression-and-handover","name":"Lenten progression and handover","description":"Tracks the current phase and the changing relationship between Lent and adjacent observances.","layers":[{"id":"current-lenten-phase","name":"Current Lenten phase","description":"Places the present moment within the community's recognised progression through Lent.","findings":[{"id":"phase-sensitive-guidance","name":"Phase-sensitive guidance","description":"Record whether Lent is upcoming, active, or concluded and identify any subdivision that changes appropriate participation.","questions":[{"text":"Given the current local date and governing calendar, what phase of this Lent is in effect?","id":"phase-sensitive-guidance-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What preparation, practice, or reminder becomes appropriate at the next recognised transition?","id":"phase-sensitive-guidance-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"holy-week-and-easter-relationships","name":"Holy Week and Easter relationships","description":"Makes inclusion, overlap, and succession explicit for the observances surrounding Lent's conclusion.","findings":[{"id":"adjacent-observance-handover","name":"Adjacent observance handover","description":"Record how this community relates Lent to Holy Week, any separately named concluding periods, and Easter.","questions":[{"text":"Which portions of Holy Week or other concluding observances are inside, overlap with, or follow Lent in this tradition?","id":"adjacent-observance-handover-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"At Lent's conclusion, which Lenten instructions cease and which subsequent observance should govern further guidance?","id":"adjacent-observance-handover-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-measurements-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Lent this model covers, and on what 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fasting and other customs as each church teaches them."],"mustNot":["Present one church's dates or rules as binding on all Christians.","Mock the faith or practices of the season.","Pressure people to fast or to break a fast.","Give fasting advice that ignores a person's health."],"requiresHuman":["Planning events or menus for observant people during Lent."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Lent is sacred to many Christians, and respect for their observance matters.","Fasting can harm people with health conditions."],"affectedParties":["Observant Christians","Churches","People with health conditions"]},"owners":{"steward":"The churches that keep the liturgical calendar.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q51617","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q6810020","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.lent","Wikidata: Q82866 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