Week Ending Sunday, March 1, 2020

                             Lent is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks (40 days) later. Ash Wednesday this year is February 26. Easter Sunday is April 12.
The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through  six disciplines:

1. Prayer…daily conversations with our Father in heaven wherein we give thanks, ask for forgiveness and then we sit still and listen…you must listen or you will miss the whole point.
2. Doing penance…activities that reflect your sadness and sorrow for having done sinful acts. Sometimes in speaking aloud your transgressions, sometimes doing additional good works in service.
3. Repentance of sins…can be mixed up with penance by definition; however, think on it as more internalizing of your sadness and sorrow for having done sinful acts. It is the acknowledgement to God that you know you have done wrong in your daily life and have the desire and will to make changes that will avow your saying, “I am truly sorry”.
4. Mortifying the flesh…aptly defined as ‘putting to death our sinful nature’. We show this through abstinence, denial, fasting, and so on. Remember these words: "For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live."
5. Almsgiving…is an act of charity toward those less fortunate and is considered a true act of love toward the recipient, an important act of Christian charity, united to communal prayer.
6. Denial of ego…is a case for each one of us to go deep within self and decide who and what is important not only during these times but the rest of the year. Is everything you do, every act you perform, defined by how good it is for you? Perhaps, our priorities are in need of tweaking. Yes, it is true that you have to love yourself in order to truly love another, but I offer this: ”Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.” (From John 15:13) Now, that is getting priorities straight.

So, there you have Lenten things defined and by the book. Don’t know if that helps but I hear a lot of folks saying things and acting like they aren’t really sure what the ‘Lent’ thing is really all about. Basically, it’s getting closer to God the Father through commitment to spiritual self via prayer

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