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March 26th, 2009 by Doreen Truesdell
So, how’s your Lenten conversion going?
Probably, like a lot of us, not as well as you had hoped. You might have started out with strong intentions, but you’ve flagged in recent weeks. The old zeal just isn’t what it was back in the soul-searching days following Ash Wednesday. The clocks have changed, the weather has changed, and so have we.
But they don’t call it the Gospel for nothing. The “Good News” now is that it’s not too late to prepare our souls for the joy of Easter. With the sorrows and Passion of Holy Week coming, it’s an ideal time to strengthen ourselves by rejuvenating our minds, our attitudes, and our prayers. Within Lent, there’s time to start anew.
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To begin again in Lent, it’s important to realize how much Jesus loves us. Lent is not purely a test of our compliance, it’s an opportunity to return His great love in ways we have not explored before. Christ wants us to succeed in loving Him and He goes to great lengths to show us the way to the cross and to resurrection. He’s on our side in the battles we have with ourselves, not watching from a distance and clucking His tongue at us in disappointment. That’s a trick of Satan, not the practice of Our Lord.
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March 26th, 2009 by Doreen Truesdell
So, how’s your Lenten conversion going?
Probably, like a lot of us, not as well as you had hoped. You might have started out with strong intentions, but you’ve flagged in recent weeks. The old zeal just isn’t what it was back in the soul-searching days following Ash Wednesday. The clocks have changed, the weather has changed, and so have we.
But they don’t call it the Gospel for nothing. The “Good News” now is that it’s not too late to prepare our souls for the joy of Easter. With the sorrows and Passion of Holy Week coming, it’s an ideal time to strengthen ourselves by rejuvenating our minds, our attitudes, and our prayers. Within Lent, there’s time to start anew.
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To begin again in Lent, it’s important to realize how much Jesus loves us. Lent is not purely a test of our compliance, it’s an opportunity to return His great love in ways we have not explored before. Christ wants us to succeed in loving Him and He goes to great lengths to show us the way to the cross and to resurrection. He’s on our side in the battles we have with ourselves, not watching from a distance and clucking His tongue at us in disappointment. That’s a trick of Satan, not the practice of Our Lord.
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