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Is it worse to commit a sin during Lent? For example, if I commit a sin before Lent vs. if I commit that same sin during Lent, would the sin be considered worse if it is committed during Lent vs. if it is not committed during Lent, even though it is the same sin?

Sin is sin no matter when and where. There is no good sin and no bad sin. There is no big sin and no small sin. However, sins committed during fasts are compound sins (the sin itself + defiling the sanctity of the fast). Sin is sin and is defined by offending God, hurting others, and provoking others to sin by what we do or not do or what we say or not say: "But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6). Whatever good you have done to another, you have done it to God, and whatever good you withheld from another, you withheld it from God (Matthew 25:31-46). Hunger, thirst, shelter, nakedness, disease, and imprisonment do not only refer to the literal needs of a fellow human being, but also refer to the other's spiritual needs, the spiritual beggar. This is the action of love and the icon of love in Christ's image. When we fail to do any of these in the greater scope of life for the good of others, we failed: "Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" (James 4:17). Thus, if we measure everything that we do or not do, our motives, ambitions, goals, everything, through the lens of love, but find that it is lacking love, this is sin "If someone says:, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" Through God's grace and teaching, the Church graciously provides times of fasting, such as the Holy Great Fast, as powerful reminders of the dire need for the human race to repent.