Are You Ready for Ash Wednesday?
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. That makes Lent less than 24 hours away . If you're not quite ready for this most Holy Season, you've still got a few hours to prep. Get your plan for your special Lenten discipline of prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order and - a suggestion - write it down. We've had some discussion of all, specifically in our posts for Septuagesima and Sexegesima Sunday. You might also consider prepping your home and your workplace in some special manner. We provided examples of this too recently . Besides tightening up your Lent prep, you might celebrate a little too. The days before Lent begins were traditionally a time of feasting and celebrating. That made a lot of sense in the days when people took fasting seriously - as they typically do not now. If you've got a plan to do some serious mortifications and fasting for Lent, then enjoy! With that, let's look ahead now. We're going to embark on a Lenten journey starting today. Each...