What is Lent? It is the 40 days (excluding Sundays) from Ash Wednesday (today) to the Saturday before Easter. It’s an important time in the Christian calendar where we look forward to the events of the first Easter and is often a somber time for Christians to reflect. Many decide to give up something important in their lives to acknowledge Jesus’ sacrifice, others prefer to do something positive, such as volunteering or donating the cost of their Starbucks coffee each day to charity. The ‘ash’ in Ash Wednesday symbolises death and repentance and the day is normally a time for reflection. In many churches you will see people with ash crosses on their forehead as a symbol of this.
I’m in a WhatsApp group with some women from my church, and we are studying and chatting about some of Luke’s Gospel every day during Lent, focusing on Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem, where he was crucified, and died to save us. So I thought I would post about these verses, and the group’s thoughts on them, each day during Lent for anyone to consider, reflect and comment.
We do have a private section called The Sanctuary on the forum which is a ‘ quiet, understanding space for anyone who has questions or just wants to talk about faith - open to those with any faith or no faith.’ If you’d like to join that section, please pm Suzi.
I get that not everybody will be interested in this, and many will disagree with what will be posted but, if that’s the case, feel free to ignore this thread rather than posting negative comments.
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