{"id":1721,"date":"2017-03-03T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2017-03-04T00:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T20:22:31","slug":"the-season-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/archives\/1721","title":{"rendered":"The season of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li lang=\"ru-RU\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lent.jpg\" alt=\"lent\" width=\"235\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"en-GB\">Lent is a period of fasting leading up to Easter. The season is rooted in the 40-day fast of Jesus in the wilderness. Catholic Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, and ends right before the evening Masses of Holy Thursday, although Lenten penance continues through Holy Saturday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"ru-RU\"><strong><span style=\"color: #157007;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The purpose of Lent is to reflect on the death and resurrection of Christ and allow God to transform our lives. The reason Christians began to \u201cgive something up\u201d was to give themselves time to focus on Christ or to allow their hunger to make them hungry for God.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"ru-RU\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Lent is a season of fasting, self-denial, spiritual growth, conversion, and simplicity. Lent, can be viewed as a spiritual spring cleaning: a time for taking spiritual inventory and then cleaning out those things which hinder our relationship with Jesus Christ and our service to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">There are a few basic tasks that traditionally have been associated with Lent. Many of these have a long history. These are fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. In addition, reading the Scriptures and the Church&#8217;s Writings can help one grow during the season.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\">Lenten prayers and devotions<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"ru-RU\">\u2022 <span lang=\"en-GB\">Begin each morning with the prayer: &#8220;Lord, I offer you this day, and all that I think, and do, and say.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/MyFaith\/Prayer\/Article\/TabId\/686\/ArtMID\/13729\/ArticleID\/11450\/Prayers-the-Rosary-and-Requests.aspx\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Rosary<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<br \/>\n\u2022 Make the <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/OSVNewsweekly\/Article\/tabid\/535\/ArticleID\/13654\/ArtMID\/13567\/\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Stations of the Cross<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> at home or in a parish celebration.<br \/>\n\u2022 Read <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/nab\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Scripture<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> for 10 minutes every day.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pray the Seven Penitential Psalms (Psalm <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/6\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">6<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/31\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">31<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/50\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">50<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/101\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">101<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/129\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">129<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> and <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/142\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">142<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">).<br \/>\n\u2022 Spend some time in quiet prayer before the <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osv.com\/TheChurch\/LiturgyandPrayer\/Article\/TabId\/666\/ArtMID\/13698\/ArticleID\/11504\/Prayers-for-Eucharistic-Adoration.aspx\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">Blessed Sacrament<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<br \/>\n\u2022 Abstain from meat for an extra day or two each week.<br \/>\n\u2022 Listen to spiritual music or a spiritual speaker.<br \/>\n\u2022 Keep a Lenten journal with your spiritual insights, special intentions, people you want to pray for, hurts and disappointments that you want to offer up, and progress reports on your Lenten resolutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\" lang=\"ru-RU\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">P<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">RAYER BEFORE A <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">C<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">RUCIFIX<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"ru-RU\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">(The Friday Indulgence<br \/>\nOn any Friday during Lent a plenary indulgence is granted the Christian faithful who, after Communion, devoutly recite the above prayer before an image of Jesus Christ crucified.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus,I cast myself upon<br \/>\nmy knees in Your sight, and with the most fervent desire of<br \/>\nmy soul I pray and beseech You that You would<br \/>\nimpress upon my heart lively sentiments of Faith, Hope, and Charity,<br \/>\nwith true repentance for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment,<br \/>\nwhile with deep affection and grief of soul I ponder within myself<br \/>\nand mentally contemplate Your five most precious Wounds;<br \/>\nhaving before my eyes the words which David in prophecy<br \/>\nspoke concerning Yourself, O good Jesus:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>They have pierced my hands and feet;<br \/>\n<\/b><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>they have numbered all my bones<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><b>.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent is a period of fasting leading up to Easter. The season is rooted in the 40-day fast of Jesus in the wilderness. Catholic Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lent.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}