Ah Lent. The time of "giving up" something.
Lent is about conversion, turning our lives more completely over to Christ and his way of life. That always involves giving up sin in some form. The goal is not just to abstain from sin for the duration of Lent but to root sin out of our lives forever. Conversion means leaving behind an old way of living and acting in order to embrace new life in Christ. For catechumens, Lent is a period intended to bring their initial conversion to completion.
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It is not a
secret that I struggle with some of the
teachings,
practices,
ideals, beliefs of the Church but that does not mean that I do not believe, for the most part, in what the church stands for and represents.
And... This is by far my favorite part of the year because it screams of renewal and a chance to renew my faith. I admit that I am a bad Catholic. I am not the best Christian. Proud of these things, not really but, I am... human.
