“Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you.”
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The writing here stresses the forty-day period of reflection, penance and fasting before Easter Sunday. The word ‘Lent’ originated from the Latin word Quadragesima, meaning forty days. The season starts on Ash Wednesday. Marking the foreheads with ashes reminds us of the virtue of humility and the transient nature of life on Earth.
Jesus shows us the bright horizon of living with a heart of love, like His. Yet, his disciples were probably downcast after hearing the demanding call to go beyond the Ten Commandments.
Comments closedJesus wants us to see the demon lurking and be its master through complete confidence in Him.
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What takes place in our hearts and in our lives, is the most important battle going on in the world today.
Comments closedThe time has come for us to fast /days to grieve for sin are here./ God knows of what we’re made, /
Comments closedReturn to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.
Comments closedA leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.”
Comments closedStudy the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed?
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In today’s Gospel, the Jews are set to stone Jesus for claiming to be God, “You, a man, are making yourself God.” (John 10:33). Jesus…
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A Lenten Morning Hymn with thees and thous gets reshaped only because my heart was moved by the Writer’s words enough to want to join my version with his, centuries later.
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The weather reports and warnings for Ash Wednesday stirred my excitement with its promise of Mercy and a ton of snow.
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Lent is here. That time for going deeper, diving into the infinite sea of God’s heart where we will find our lasting happiness, tasting it…
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