Posted on 03/05/2025 8:10:42 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy season of Lent—a time of spiritual anticipation of the passion, death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
During the Lenten season, Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying, fasting, and giving alms to deepen our faith and strengthen our belief in the Gospel. Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads—a sacred reminder of our mortality and our enduring need for Christ’s infinite mercy and redeeming love.
As we solemnly contemplate Jesus Christ’s suffering and death on the cross this Lent, let us prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle.
We offer you our best wishes for a prayerful and enriching Lenten season. May Almighty God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America.
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It is so welcome to have a message of faith, devotion, anticipation, and hope coming from our First Family.
God is back in this country. Our prayers are bing answered daily. Thank you God for bringing us back to you and thank you for giving us a President who loves you.
And to think only millimeters decided this election. Praise God!
Memories of another reason in the long list of reasons I quit the Catholic church in 8th grade. The priest was angry the kids had bangs so instead of moving them over or having the kids hold their hair out of the way, he put a line, not even a cross down their noses.
With all due respect, it seems rather petty--both of the priest who allegedly did this, and someone who would leave the Church Christ himself founded over such a small thing. To know that Christ's Church is filled with imperfect human beings is no big revelation. Christ himself told us it would be so.
Blessed beginnings of Lent to all Western Christians and Western Orthodox!
God bless President Trump for recognizing Ash Wednesday!
Not that it makes me respect the old reprobate any the more, but credit should be given where credit is due:
Today’s Lenten Old Testament Lesson in the Orthodox Church:
Isaiah 2:3-11
Thus say the people: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made. So man is humbled, and men are brought low — forgive them not! Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
too bad you made a choice about church based on one man/priest’s action, anger.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
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