LENTEN TIME

        “The Light shines in the darkness - darkness comprehended it not” 

God Is Light …” This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5 Bible)...

             Lent - Catholic fasting period before Easter, for Christ's suffering and death to remember. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday… a 40-day journey to Easter…

         Some believe that the origins of Lent - pre-Christian religion. Faithful to their spring festival of the dead and dying resurrection god (Osiris in Egypt, Phoenician Adonis, Attis in Asia Minor, in Greece Dionysus) resurrection…

LENTEN TIME   -   Confessional of lifetime …

-  LENT  - it is going into the DESERT... with Jesus ...

-  it PRAYER...

- it FASTING ...

-  it CONFESSION of a lifetime ...

-  it Holy Mass ...

-  INTERVIEW-REFLECTION your interior with the Lord ..

 - it the Body and Soul cleansing against the Resurrection ...

Why 40 days?

           St. The Letter is a significant number of 40… 40 days in the wilderness, Jesus... The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness, crossed the Jordan River before reaching the promised land... Moses spent 40 days at Mount Sinai... Elijah traveled 40 days on Mount Horeb, fed only once, the angels brought to the meat... Also, the Old Testament book of Jonah, the prophet called Nineveh to repent, it is written, "Another 40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed"...

          During Lent in particular, emphasis was placed on prayer, fasting and giving the victims - charity... All three good deeds of Christ are mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount. They lead to spiritual growth and holiness...

         Lent is a concentration , repentance and spiritual renewal time... The time in which we have come to terms with God, with ourselves, with people... Lent - a time when we are invited to pause and reflect on, understand and accept human nature, its fragility and vulnerability...

Jesus said, in the desert – “Go away, Satan!”

-  I think this is the most powerful words ever spoken…

      But He answered and said, "It is written, 'HUMAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.' " Matthew 4:4, Bible…

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday…

             Ash Wednesday, in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter.... It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter...

           According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent forty days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan... Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this forty day liturgical period of prayer and fasting...

             Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and it marks the beginning of Lent. Ashes were used in ancient times, according to the Bible, to express mourning. Dusting oneself with ashes was the penitent's way of expressing sorrow for sins and faults...

Job says to God: "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. The other eye wandereth of its own accord. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.", Bible...