WHEN YOU COUNT THE DAYS LEADING UP TO LENT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE OUT THE SUNDAYS. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE NUMBERS COME OUT RIGHT. I forgot to do that. 40 days is 40 consecutive days to me....
So - for those who truly honor Lent as a tradition, Sundays are their oasis in the desert. If they are fasting from something, they don't have to deny themselves on Sundays. It makes the discipline more manageable because it breaks it down to 6 days of "doing or not doing" with a built-in day to regroup.
In a very different sense, that's what Sunday worship does for us. I'm grateful for that!
We are admonished, "Don't forsake assembling yourselves together as the manner of some is...even so much the more as you see the day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)
One of the basics of Christian faith is that we cannot truly 'be' Christians alone. We need to be the living body of Christ - interacting, learning, growing.
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