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LentFasting…Prayer…

40 days… Reflection

Sacrifice…

Devotio

n…

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Lent is……a season in the

Church’s year.

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…a time for looking at the depth of one’s own sin, and turn away from them.

Lent is…

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…a time for learning what it means to follow Christ with one’s life, and to listen to the Spirit.

Lent is…

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…a time for actually going about changing one’s ways to be more like Christ.

Lent is…

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…a time for self-discovery of the parts of ourselves we don’t want to discover, through prayer, fasting and actively choosing what is right over what is wrong.

Lent is…

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Lent……begins with Ash Wednesd

ay.

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“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return…”

Ecclesiastes 3:20

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The ParableOf The Sower

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But the sower went on sowing…

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But the sower went on sowing…

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But the sower went on sowing…

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He tended each one in its seasonAnd according to its need

So that each in its own right timeProduced an abundant crop.

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And the Sower goes on sowing…

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God as the Sower…Holy Spirit is the

seed…Our souls are the soil…

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We are the Sowers…Truth and good deeds

are the seed…

The soil is all around us…

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