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What does it mean?


1. Lent means "forty" and applies to the 40 days of intense preparation for the feast of Easter. 1.v
2. Jesus retired for 40 days. Moses waited 40 days before entering the Sinai. Elijah walked for 40 days to Horeb. And the march of the Jews through the desert lasted 40 years.
3. "40" is therefore a symbolic number that expresses Eve, "preparation" for something important that intense for us, is the Easter
4. Lent is not understood, if not in function of the Passover. 5. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. During this period not sing "Hallelujah" or recite the "Glory."
6. In the early days of Lent was a preparation period intensive to baptism, celebrated on the night of Passover.
7. Being baptized requires consistency and a change of mentality.

II. TIME CHANGE
1. On Ash Wednesday we are told: "Repent and believe the Gospel." Lent is thus a time of conversion. 2. Conversion means "back", "change", "correct way" Renew " 3. The change we want is to move from "old man" to "new man" 4. "Old Man" is behind the living Christ and the Gospel. "New Man" is the one who follows Jesus and lives according to the Gospel. 5. "You're an" old man "or a" new man "? Think about it, man! 6. Some Christians believe that conversion is only for pagans and heretics .. And, of course, do not need Lent. 7. Others think that not eating meat on Friday or quit and have met ... No! If no change, no Lent. 8. Lent is changing her life. is the real man's conversion to Christ, a new birth to Jesus Christ, a new creature, .. and for this to happen, you need to change, to repent of sin, and not to repeat the same mistakes ..

III. CHANGE THE HEART

1. Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence. Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence. 2. Fasting for fasting is pointless and does not make people better ... Especially in a world where many fast, not because it's Lent, but they have nothing to eat. 3. Refrain from eating meat is a sign that is of importance for what it means. 4. Fasting and abstinence are "signs of conversion." They are not "cast." 5. Fasting is a sign that you: - want to "fast from sins" - solidarity with the hungry you - prefer the bread of the Word - Curbing the use - want to share yours. 6. Abstinence is a sign that you: - want abstain from sin - you do not eat the bread of the poor - will "keep in shape" inside. 7. What matters is to change the heart. IV. "Repent and believe the gospel" 1. Lent is a time of renewal for the community. 0 is everyone is together or not Lent. 2. Lent ago: the couple, family, group, the parish community. Nobody does just Lent 3. If believers in this country change, the whole country will change. Lent helps to change society. 4. The pattern of change is in the Gospel, the Word of God. Lent is a favorable time for the announcement and listening to the Word. 5. St. Jerome said: "Ignoring the Gospel is ignorance of Christ." 6. Jesus said, "Not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of my Father." 7. The reading of the Gospel in family, retreats, the Spiritual Exercises, the cults of the Brotherhood ... are now privileged to hear the Word of God. Do not close your ears to the Word.

BLESSINGS