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Ash Wednesday 8th Sunday

we enter Lent. This is the time to go without dessert, to forego some trips, it really feels like doing penance. Each year it returns, each year we start to make efforts, we deprive ourselves of some things as an athlete, it is carried out, we train for Easter ...
"Return to Me with all your heart, "says the Lord by the prophet Joel. That is what serves our training. Return to God is to first agree to not be God, but to require him to live. "Now is the acceptable time is now the day of salvation. "

Jesus gives us three examples:
He talks about the charity. It invites us to do so in silence and in secret. Share free, without waiting, this is a gesture quite evangelical. There are those who give to avoid getting involved, there are those who do not give because they believe it does not really help the person and there are those who give themselves to each other, simply because the other has needs. In truth, it is not only giving, but to have an open heart to another. Jesus exhorts us
how to pray in secret. Today, we are not so inclined to pray in public as the Pharisees of the Gospel of Matthew. Praying in public became almost indecent! So where would hide the hypocrisy of our time? Maybe in our way of saying: "I do not need to go to church to pray, I pray at home. "For some people, this means, do not pray at all! If we do not really specific time in our lives to prayer, in fact we end up not praying. As the prayer remains a duty, an obligation merely external, or even a chore, we will avoid. As long as God remains for us a means and not an end in itself, we really never learn to pray.
And what about fasting? Do not think only to the deprivation of food and drink. What are our small drugs, the things we can not pass but that is not really necessary? Where are our outbuildings? Television, computer, or work ... everyone to examine themselves. Deprive us of some of the excesses we give more time for God and for others!

Finally, Lent is a time of healing and liberation, a positive time. It is a gift, favorable weather, a school of life, exercise time to Christian Life Community. Let us enjoy!