Ash Wednesday is the clarion call to Repent and believe the gospel - TopicsExpress



          

Ash Wednesday is the clarion call to Repent and believe the gospel (Mk 1:15). For the next forty days the faithful willingly submit to fasting and self-denial in imitation of Our Lord’s forty-day fast in the desert. It is in these dark and still nights, these desert-times that the soul experiences its greatest growth. There in the inner arena, the soul battles the world, the flesh and the devil just as Our Lord battled Satans triple temptation in the desert. His battle was external for Jesus could not sin our battle is interior but with a hope sustained by the knowledge of Christ’s Easter victory over sin and death. His victory is our renewal our spring which is the meaning of the Anglo Saxon word lengten or Lent.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:39:09 +0000

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