Lent: Season of Reflection

 

           Filipinos indeed are known for greatly valuing culture, tradition, beliefs, and practices. As the month of hearts have passed through, everyone peacefully awaits and prepare for the breeze of Lenten Season.

            Belonging in a Christian Church, lent is a period of penitential preparation for Easter. It is a time wherein we recall how Christ passionately gave himself to the cross through all the sufferings and a time of his death and resurrection. As I have observed and grown with this practice, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are considered as public holidays. On the Ash Wednesday, Catholic people place ashes in their forehead as a sign of inner repentance. While the practice of Fasting and Abstinence, the most common during Lenten Season, is not really practiced by everybody. Some people who deeply believes, submit themselves to penitence which fasting starts from Ash Wednesday until Good Friday. On the other hand, Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all the Fridays of the Lent. Furthermore, Visita Iglesia or the practice of visiting churches and reciting the station of the crossed is commonly done on Maundy Thursday or Good Friday. However, it cannot be denied that the emergence of pandemic has given us a lot of restrictions. Limiting the movement of people particularly in travelling from place to place. Thus, giving an adjustment in today’s season of Lent as we cannot gather freely with an enormous crowd, unlike before.

            However, the effects of pandemic cannot prevent our every spirit to remember His sacrifice. As we all have to bear in mind, that we find a quiet time with the Lenten Season, for we value that Christ has paid the great price for us.

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http://troubadour.francis.edu/3821/campus-life/lenten-season-begins-next-week/