Posted on 02/16/2010 6:37:30 PM PST by Salvation
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ASH WEDNESDAY " Dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return." |
Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God. (Joel 2:13)
Ash Wednesday is a day of both fasting and abstinence. |
I really like that prayer.
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Thursday After Ash Wednesday |
"Whoever wishes to be my follower must deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my steps." (Luke 9:23)
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Thank you, FRiend. It has been a blessing to pray with you this morning.
Friday After Ash Wednesday The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. |
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed. (Isaiah 58:6)
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Saturday After Ash Wednesday |
If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness. (Isaiah 58:10)
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First Sunday of Lent |
"I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." (Genesis 9:13)
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Monday, First Week of Lent |
"I assure you, as often as you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me." (Matthew 25:40)
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Tuesday, First Week of Lent |
"Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: Our Father...." (Matthew 6:8-9)
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Wednesday, First Week of Lent |
"For at the preaching of Jonah they reformed, but you have a greater than Jonah here." (Luke 11:32) Reflection. "Go through the world unnoticed if you can. Secret privations, secret sacrifices of your own will, which will never be known until all things are revealed, are surer instruments of perfection than chains and shirts of hair." ...Fr. Lasance Lenten Fact The original period of Lent was 40 hours. It was spent fasting to commemorate the suffering of Christ and the 40 hours He spent in the tomb. In the early 3rd century, Lent was lengthened to 6 days. About 800 AD it was changed to 40 days. Lenten Action. Plant a seed or bulb and watch it develop through the spring. Pray for your own spiritual growth. Prayer O Jesus, humbled to abjection for me, teach me to humble myself for love of You. |
Thursday, First Week of Lent |
"Ask, and you will receive. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)
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Friday, First Week of Lent
The Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. |
"Unless your holiness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 5:20)
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Saturday, First Week of Lent |
"If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that?" (Matthew 5:46)
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