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A Short Summary On Lent

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Lent is about pausing for a while from our busy schedules and listen to the word of the Lord who is merciful and compassionate. It is about uniting as one community for all of us to tap into the passion of believing and obeying once again. We are ambassadors of God because we are made through his image and likeness. Lent is a time for resolution to every relationship we have abandoned in order to walk together with God and each other. This is also a time of bringing out the spirit of hope and making peace so that we can all live a happy life with each other through the Holy Spirit that is embedded within us. During Lent, we have to live passionately, truthfully and gracefully in order to get back in touch with the intensity of our baptismal …show more content…

Firstly, we have to get rid of our lazy addiction to evil. Lent is a powerful season, a defining moment that can foster change and conversion in each of us. We all need to improve so that we can change for the better. Lent helps us leave behind the bad habits and the lazy addiction to the evil that deceives and ensnares us. Second, we must do something that hurts. Lent is a fitting time for abstinence, it would be of benefit to us if we ask ourselves what can we give up in order to help and inspire others by our own poverty. We should not forget that real poverty hurts: no abstinence is real without this dimension of penance. Third, we should not remain indifferent. Indifference to our neighbor and God is temptation for us Christians. During lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out the word of the lord in order to awaken our conscience. God is kind to our world; he showed us his love when he gave his Son for our redemption. Fourth, we must give time for prayer and meditation. Let us all ask the lord to make our hearts like his; this way, we will receive a heart which is firm, merciful, attentive and generous; this is a heart that is not closed, indifferent or irrelevant. In the past we have been hurt so much caused our heart to harden and

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