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40 days …. Fasting…. Reflection…. Lent. Prayer…. Devotion…. Sacrifice…. Lent is…. …a season in the Church’s year. Lent is…. …a time for looking at the depth of one’s own sin, and turn away from them. Lent is….
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40 days… Fasting… Reflection… Lent Prayer… Devotion… Sacrifice…
Lent is… …a season in the Church’s year.
Lent is… …a time for looking at the depth of one’s own sin, and turn away from them.
Lent is… …a time for learning what it means to follow Christ with one’s life, and to listen to the Spirit.
Lent is… …a time for actually going about changing one’s ways to be more like Christ.
Lent is… …a time for self-discovery of the parts of ourselves we don’t want to discover, through prayer, fasting and actively choosing what is right over what is wrong.
Lent… …begins with Ash Wednesday.
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return…” Ecclesiastes 3:20
He tended each one in its season And according to its need So that each in its own right time Produced an abundant crop.
God as the Sower… Holy Spirit is the seed… Our souls are the soil…
We are the Sowers… Truth and good deeds are the seed… The soil is all around us…