Lent in less than a week
Just a heads up that the season of Lent begins Wednesday, March 1st, Ash Wednesday. A day of fast and abstinence and to go get your ashes. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
During Lent, the 40 days leading up to the most important Christian/Catholic Holiday (Holy Day), Easter Sunday, Catholics all over the world prepare themselves for the great celebration of Easter. [Abstaining from meats on Fridays, fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday]
When the time comes I'll post a link that EWTN has hosted over the past few years which features a daily Lenten reflection.
This is the time to get in touch with your faith and see what really matters and remember the essentials to basic human needs, the needs of the world community. With the great freedom and prosperity of life in the United States comes a call for us to answer, the responsibility and obligation to fight injustice and respond to the need to respect the dignity of all human life.
Lent is a time for reconciliation, almsgiving (charity), fasting/abstinence, and prayer/contemplation. It's basically a call to humility, that there is more beyond us and what we can "see" in this life and that we are in this life to serve one another.
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1 Comments:
It seems like the non-Catholic perspective of Lent is equivalent to a New Year's Resolution.
It's really frustrating when my non-Catholic friends make a HUGE deal about "Oooh what are you giving up for Lent? Do you think you can make it all 40 days?"
How do you explain that Lent is also about alms-giving and prayer to a culture that is obsessed with this reality-show perspective of challenge?
"So you're going to give up your daily latte, and give that money to the Rice Bowl charity. Weird! I bet you don't last a whole week! Let me know!"
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