Category: Lent

A True Fast

The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry, the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.  -Saint Basil (329-379)  

 

Is this not the fast that I choose to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide your face from your own kin?  Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.  -Isaiah 58:3

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Lent-Indentifying With Christ’s Suffering

Lenten season is the time when we especially identify with the sufferings of Jesus.  During Lent we walk the way of the cross, we share in his rejection when the religious leaders and others turned from him, rejected him, and plotted his death.  Lent is a time for repentance and renewal, a time to fall at the feet of Jesus and admit our sinfulness and our need of him.  Lent is a time to confess, and cry “Lord have mercy on me, a sinner!”  Lent is a time for humility and repentance, a time to get on our knees and get right with God.
-Robert Weber  

Lord, wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness…
hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities, 
create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
-Psalms 51:7b, 8a, 9-10

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