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Matt Sullivan lives in San Francisco with his roommate Ryan, working at a dot-com company. His obsession with his ex-girlfriend Nicole causes him sexual dysfunction with other women, which he confides to his brother John, a Catholic priest-in-training. After disastrously trying to fake an orgasm with a date, Matt learns that Nicole is now engaged. Hoping to resolve his issues, he vows to abstain from sexual stimulation, including masturbation, for the 40 days of Lent.
40 Days and 40 Nights
Peter Travers called it "a one-joke sex farce", and complains "Yup, director Michael Lehmann, far from the glory days of "Heathers," has made a movie about a hard-on, in which he relentlessly pounds a flaccid premise."[9]Lou Lumenick of the New York Post called the film "So eyeball-gougingly awful that you're tempted to give up movies for Lent."[10]
For example, it would take 40 days of taunting from the Philistine giant to Goliath to utterly humiliate and expose the faithless leadership of the armies of Israel. Nothing had changed for Goliath over the span of 40 days. He was as big and mean as he was the day before. But for 40 days, the physical reality of what Israel was up against had become very real in the hearts and minds of its people, the soldiers fled in fear (1 Samuel 17:25).
And yet, at the end of 40 days, God would bring a lowly shepherd boy with a completely different perspective and assessment of the situation to the frontlines. Where the Israelites saw a giant and certain defeat, we know that David saw an opportunity for God to move and deliver His people.
Similarly, after the Resurrection, Jesus would spend an additional 40 days on earth with His disciples. At this point, there was no denying that Jesus had risen from the grave. The disciples had time to sit with Him, eat with Him, ask Him questions, and feel His scars.
Likewise, God had previously decided to cleanse the earth of its wickedness and start fresh with Noah and his descendants by covering the earth in a Great Flood (Genesis 7-9). While the 40 days and 40 nights of rain made clear that this was truly a universal flood designed to cover the surface of the earth, the focus coming out of the flood was on the fresh start, second chance, and new covenant offered to humanity through Noah.
Furthermore, for forty years, the nation of Israel would wander in the desert as punishment for their refusal to enter the Promised Land out of fear. Why forty? We know from Scripture that forty years was the time given to coincide with the 40 days the spies had scouted the land.
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And at a harrowing point in his life, the prophet Elijah flees into the desert for 40 days and nights in the book of Kings and secludes himself in a cave. There, he waits for his fear to subside and for God to give him direction.
It is evident that the time span of forty days and forty nights has importance in the Bible, being found 24 times throughout scripture. From the 40 days and nights that Moses spent in the wilderness when given the Ten Commandments to the same time span that Jesus spent in the wilderness when tempted by Satan.
"So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments." (Exodus 34:28)
"And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry." (Luke 4:1-2)
The Saviour, Jesus Christ, would fulfill all the commandments, which were often not followed in Israel's history. Their wandering for forty years in the wilderness was because of their waywardness and iniquities, but our Lord spent forty days in the wilderness in complete obedience to the commandments, and in particular, fasting without complaint, whilst the Jews in the wilderness perpetually complained about the food they ate.
There are many other seasons in the Church which are either liturgical or personal which take the shape of forty days... It is simply the process that we call the Sanctification of Time. The Sanctification of Time, when conscientiously practiced, makes real in our daily lives the elements which we celebrate or commemorate. Thus, we can relate better to the Sacred Scriptures and to the Liturgical Life of our Faith.
Following the biblical examples of Moses, Ezekiel, and Jesus Christ, we still use the period of 40 days to prepare for the Nativity of Christ, through Advent, and the Resurrection of Christ, through Lent.
After being dumped by his girlfriend, Matt (Josh Hartnett) gives up sex for Lent. Enter the lithe and lissome Erica (Shannyn Sossamon of A Knight's Tale), whom he enjoys getting to know without jumping into bed. After a while it becomes awkward, and when she finds out what he's doing and that there's actually a website devoted to whether he'll last for 40 days, she feels hurt and betrayed. Then Nicole (Vinessa Shaw), the girl who dumped him, re-enters the picture.
At the heart of a sex farce is someone who wants to have sex (preferably illicit) but is amusingly thwarted; this gives us the best of both worlds. We get to vicariously enjoy the illicit possibilities and feel righteously smug about the agonies the characters go through in pursuit of their quest. The problem these days is in finding believable excuses for keeping the characters apart. Not quite in the category of believable, even within the low-credibility threshold of a comedy, is this movie's premise.
On April 1st 2020, I will move to a wooden deck overlooking the Sand river at the Londolozi Game Reserve, bordering the Kruger National Park in South Africa, to live alone for 40 days and 40 nights. During this time I will meditate, contemplate, read, practice yoga and also spend hours in the African wilderness practicing the ancient art of animal tracking.
Parashat Ki Tisa recounts the incident of the Golden Calf in a multilayered narrative about faith and leadership. In Exodus, chapter 32, we read that Moses remained on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights. In his absence, the Israelites demanded that Aaron fashion an idol so God would be present with them. Aaron created a Golden Calf, probably modeling it on statues of the Canaanite god El1, who is depicted in the form of a bull.
On the eve of their long-awaited entry to Canaan, God had Moses send out spies into the land so they could explore. They spent 40 days and nights scouting the land, then returned and reported all they had found (Numbers 13:25).
Many, many years from that time, the Bible tells us that after His baptism, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. He fasted 40 days and nights, and the devil tempted Jesus there in His hunger and apparent weakness (Matthew 4:2).
But this could just as well have meant exactly what was written: 40 days. Forty nights. A specific, lengthy (but not too lengthy) period of time whereby someone could fast and endure testing and, one hopes, learn the lesson God intended.
But its religious significance is its most important. Today, consider whether God wants you to use a period of 40 days and nights to learn a crucial lesson, end a negative practice, or adopt a new way of walking closer with Him.
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life.
According to the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus spent "forty days" in the desert before beginning his public ministry (see Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2). Matthew's Gospel even specifies that it was "forty days and forty nights" (Matt 4:2). Whether or not this period of Jesus' life was precisely forty days is theologically irrelevant, since the number "forty" is highly symbolic in all biblical literature, representing "a long time," especially as a time of trial or testing.Consider the following examples:
Many Christians celebrate Lent as a period of preparation before Easter, with fasting, prayer, almsgiving, and penance. Based on the above biblical foundations, it is traditionally thought to be 40 days long; yet there are actually 46 calendar days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. So which of them is counted as the "forty days" of Lent? Several factors complicate the answer to this question.
Looking at the map below, it is interesting that, in those days of slow travel and no travel, it took around seven years for the Plague to cover the landmass of Europe beginning in Central Asia. Today in 2020 we covered the same ground with COVID-19 in weeks, such is our ease of travel and our frenetic pace of life.
Ragusa was not the first city to be overcome by the Plague but, in 1377, it was the first to pass official quarantine legislation. By ordering apparently healthy sailors and traders to isolate for a period of 30 days (later extended to 40 days), the town officials showed a remarkable understanding of incubation. People arriving with no symptoms at all were held for the quarantine period to determine if they were disease-free.
Lent is the period of 40 days which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Lent is marked by fasting, both from food and festivities. 041b061a72