Lenten Practices
“O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen. ” ~ Henri Nouwen At the time of writing this, we are about halfway through the Lenten season. As a refresher Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. Lent comes from the Anglo Saxon word lencten, meaning “lengthen” and refers to the lengthening days of spring. The forty days…