How do you know if you are experiencing a holy Lent? I know what the Book of Common Prayer calls us to do - self-examination, repentance, prayer, fasting, self-denial, reading and meditating on God's word. It seems like such hard work and we are all so busy.
But then, I read a paragraph back and where it recalls the real theology behind this time. Where "the first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection" and those "because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the followship of the church."
Great devotion... being reconciled to the fellowship of the church...It may have been hard work back then too but the end result of being reconciled, of being invited back into fellowship was worth it to the early Christians. And I think it is worth it for me too!
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