Forty Days to Get Closer To God
Here's a great Link on Praying Lent which starts today.
Let us pray
for the grace to keep Lent faithfully.
Lord,
protect us in the struggle against evil.
As we begin the discipline of Lent,
make this season holy by our self-denial.
Grant this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Daily Meditation:
A very special day.
The ashes we use are the burnt palms from last year's celebration of Passion Sunday.
We begin our Lenten journey aware of where we are going.
We want to enter into the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus for us more fully.
That is the purpose of our journey. It is why we mark our heads with his cross.
It is why we fast today and abstain from meat.
Our Lenten program is not an effort to save ourselves.
We have been saved by his sacrifice.
Our self-denial helps us, in the darkness that surrounds us,
to prepare ourselves to receive his light.
For this is a journey to the Easter font,
where we will renew the promises of our Baptism,
remembering that in dying with him in the waters of Baptism,
we are re-born with him to everlasting life.
This year's journey begins today.
Yet even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.
For gracious and merciful is he,
slow to anger, rich in kindness,
and relenting in punishment.
- Joel 2:12-13
posted by Russ Rentler, M.D. | 6:57 AM
1 Comments:
Reading this post reminds me of the Donut Man. We watched a re-televised
program of Journey Home, Monday. His zeal, and genuine enthusiasm was just so contagious. I've been so blessed also by all the seasons our Church offers us, too. It's because God knows what He's doing. He made us human, with physical needs and senses. I mean think of the wonder of making foods all taste different! How cool is that! He did it for our pleasure and delight! That is why these seasons and sacramentals in the Church, and all the things we do and are blessed by are signs to me of a TENDER LOVING GOD and most of all a MERCIFUL FATHER, our ABBA, our DADDY.
Thanks TJ.
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