What is Lent?; Lent for the Christian faithful, is a 40-day period during which we focus on DOING that which draws us closer to Christ Jesus. It is a time to participate in disciplines such as fasting, abstinence, prayer and penance so that we become aware of, and depend on, our Spiritual nature.
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You can read about fasting, which is a spiritual discipline that does not involve starvation or dehydration. You can also read Honest to God for an explanation of what we accomplish by observing Lent.
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What is the signifcance of the days of lent? ... Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent. This is the day when Roman Catholics traditionally apply an ashen cross on their foreheads. Marking with ash is a symbolic reminder that we come from the dust and that so much of what we do, and are, will return to dust...
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The Season of Lent ... The color of Lent is purple. ... Lent is a forty-day season of preparation for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. The season begins on Ash Wednesday, when pastors mark the foreheads of Christians with ashes as a reminder that we are created from dust and to dust we shall return.
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Thus this opens a theme that is echoed throughout Lent and then decidedly pronounced during the Easter Vigil. In the Exsultet, the Church rejoices in this Original Sin, because it brought the Redemption: ... Explanation of the liturgy of Lent from Ash Wednesday to Passion Sunday.  ...
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The key to understanding the meaning of Lent is simple: Baptism. Preparation for Baptism and for renewing baptismal commitment lies at the heart of the season. ... Lent, then, is radically baptismal. In this Update we'll consider some of the familiar customs of Lent and show how we can renew some of our Lenten customs...
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By the Grace and love of our Lord God once we enter Holy Great Lent which always begins on a Monday, and known as Clean Monday, there are commemorations for each weekend (and during the weekdays), leading up to Holy Week and Holy Pascha -our Lord’s Holy Glorious Resurrection, and thereafter the commemorating period...
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Rock Around the Block Party- 9/26 ... Dining Out- Cheddar's - 9/21 ... lent, welcome, explanation, messiah lutheran church, lcms, lutheran, plano, allen, richardson...
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Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of both fast and abstinence. In the United States, all Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence. ... Abstinence from meats is to be observed by all Catholics 14 years old and older on Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent.
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6. About Lent ... Lent is not normally thought of as an occasion for levity, but... A Catholic priest working in an inner city was walking down an alley one evening on his way home when a young man came down the alley behind him and poked a knife against his back.
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