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Hopeful Thinking: The Lenten Practice: A season of making space

Lent is a season of reflection and renewal for Christians, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting roughly six weeks, traditionally lasting for 40 days.
Wil Darcangelo suggests that Lent offers an opportunity to reflect on forgiveness, self-control, and mortality to create personal growth.
The season of Lent encourages practices like self-control, contemplation of mortality, and giving to others, helping to shift worldviews and promote civil dialogue amid current societal tensions.
The purpose of Lent is to make space for quiet reflection and personal growth, rather than simply giving up something we love.

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Lowndes Signal

Holy Season of Lent - Lowndes Signal

By Dunford Cole It is the Holy Season of Lent, and we have begun our journey to the cross of Calvary with our Lord. In doing so, we strive to become better Christians, parents, spouses, friends and neighbors. This is a season to open our hearts to God and listen to the Holy Spirit and examine the stumbling blocks we have collected during the past year. We all have them. Some are tied to work, family or health, but often they are those little ha…

1 day ago·Lowndes County, United States

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Times-News

FAITH & VALUES: Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent

Lent calls believers to remember their mortality, their connection to creation, and their need for spiritual renewal.

2 days ago·Twin Falls, United States

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The Sun (Lowell)

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Hopeful Thinking: The Lenten Practice: A season of making space

We have just entered the season of Lent. It begs a question. Must one be a Christian in order to benefit from some of its spiritual traditions and practices? The answer has to be: of course not. Many Christian traditions are offshoots from much earlier traditions that were adopted by Christianity and thus hold value beyond the religion itself. Many religious practices and celebrations have genealogies that extend back to our earliest humanity, s…

3 days ago·Lowell, United States

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Charleston Gazette-Mail

Kathleen Jacobs: Lent: A season of reflection (Opinion)

”God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.”—Pope Francis

3 days ago·Charleston, United States

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National Catholic Reporter

Cardinal McElroy urges Washington Archdiocese faithful to 'give whole hearts to God' during Lent

Less than a week before he will be officially installed as the eighth archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.

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Duluth News Tribune

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Finding Faith: A call to reflect during Lent

It seems that Lent couldn’t be taking place at a more appropriate time than now. Just as the world as we know it seems to be burning down around us, we are called to pause for these next several weeks in reflection and preparation of Easter, for Christ’s resurrection. Could we say the pinnacle of our faith calendar? Already expected to be a somber time in which Christians reflect on the events that led up to Jesus’ death, ask for forgiveness, pr…

3 days ago·Cherokee County, United States

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