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Lent. Lent is a forty day period before Easter set aside as a season of soul-searching and repentance. The forty days reflect Jesus' withdrawal into the wilderness for his own time of spiritual reflection. Sundays, because they commemorate the Resurrection, are not counted.
On Ash Wednesday, the Christian Church entered the season of Lent. The forty days of Lent are meant to be a time of intense introspection, penance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and fasting. For centuries, many Christians have chosen to express the sense of self-denial inherent in this season by giving up something. This Lent, I invite everyone in our church family to be shaped by the spiritual discipline of fasting. Reverend Lynn Smilie Nesbitt has developed a wonderful fasting guide for our church to follow. As you read the guide(below), you will see that each week we are invited to observe a different fast.