The Season of Lent

This year for Lent I think I have finally narrowed it down to giving up FEAR. 

Fear creeps up for me during times of change, decision making, etc.

 I am going to try harder to immediately give it (whatever the fear is) over to God. 

I can do all things through God who strengthens me.

The Season of Lent

A depiction of Jonah from the façade of the Amiens Cathedral (thirteenth century).

The season of Lent is a time of prayer, fasting and self-examination in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord at Easter. It is a period of 40 days — like the flood of Genesis, Moses’ sojourn at Mount Sinai, Elijah’s journey to Mount Horeb, Jonah’s call to Ninevah to repent and Jesus’ time of testing in the wilderness. (The Sundays in Lent are not counted in this reckoning of the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter, as every Lord’s Day is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.)

In the early church, Lent was a time of preparation for the celebration of baptism at the Easter Vigil. In many communities of faith it remains a time to equip and nurture candidates for baptism and confirmation and to reflect deeply on the theme of baptismal discipleship.

*Article taken from http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/worship/worship-resources-lent/*

ASH WEDNESDAY

Ash Wednesday is a day of solemn assembly that is built right into the church year. It is a fast day, a day of mourning for our sin and the sin of all humanity before God, a recognition of our mortality save for the grace of God and a request that the Lord remember our creation and breathe new life into our burned-out, dusty lives once more.

*article taken from http://www.pcusa.org/resource/ash-wednesday-service/ *

If you celebrate the Season of Lent, What are 

you giving up?

Be Blessed!