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Lenten Season: A Perfect Season to Grow as a Person

Every year, the Church gives us six weeks to reflect on our lives to see if our beliefs and goals are in line with God's desires for us. Lent serves as a second chance, or do over, to return to God with our whole heart. Lent is an excellent opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a Christian. It is also an opportunity to repent for our sins and misgivings, as well as intensify our prayer, fasting, almsgiving, religious practice, and accepting others as brothers and sisters in our religious sect. Most Catholics associate Lent with giving up everything they love, doing good, and refraining from consuming meat on Fridays. Some people consider it a waste and despise having to make the sacrifice. But Lent is a special occasion.

Between Ash Wednesday and Easter, many Christians observe a 40-day period known as Lent. The Lenten Sundays celebrate significant events in Our Lord's life, such as his Transfiguration and Triumphal Entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, which starts of Holy Week. Holy Week culminates with Holy Thursday, when Christ celebrated the first mass, Good Friday, when he was crucified, and Holy Saturday, when our Lord laid in the Tomb before his resurrection on Easter Sunday, the start of Lenten season. Lent is a season of intense prayer, fasting, and concern for those in need. It provides an opportunity for all Christians to prepare for Easter by seriously considering their lives, paying special attention to God's word, which illuminates the everyday journey of all who believe.

During the Lenten Season, there are many wonderful things to do. It's a wonderful time to assess your spiritual life and make improvements. Each day of Lent offers an inspiring quote as well as a practical, challenging task that many people can accomplish to keep their spiritual lives on track. Since Lenten season is time of religious practice, we must pray for others. Pick out a person who seems to be in need and pray for them while you walk the streets, drive the highways, or wait for a meeting to begin. Lenten is also a time of giving up something. Go beyond the normal method of giving up something to test yourself.

Lent helps us to let go of useless possessions to which we have become attached. We discover that material possessions aren't the most important thing in the world. In the end, it is the individual, not their property, who must stand before God and be judged. We must discipline our will by denying ourselves from everything we enjoy so that we will not become slaves to our pleasures. A habit of refusing pleasures when they are not sinful is established by disciplining the will to resist pleasures when they are sinful. There are few better ways to keep our goals clear than depriving ourselves of lower-priority items on a regular basis to demonstrate that they aren't important and to concentrate our attention on what is important.

During Lent, we must not consider our sacrifices to be pointless or unnecessary, but rather think it as a means of drawing closer to God. Lent is a special time of year when we should choose God over our material possessions. It's a time to remind us that God is the most important thing, and that our small sacrifices pale in comparison to Jesus' sacrifice. We must do good always, focus on good things in life, and practice godliness. We must learn what's good for us and what's bad for us in order to become a better person for ourselves and for others around us. 


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  1. JirehMay 11, 2021 at 9:06 PM

    You have clarified Lenten Season in a very meaningful manner. Great blog!

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