Comments on: Lord, help us to be happy!

By: Loloy

Loloy — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 04:23:26 +0000

Thank you for your clarifying, we better understood.
We got much learning from this site.

Excited to have more soon.
God bless!

By: Daniel McFeely

Daniel McFeely — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 05:45:52 +0000

Thanks for the questions, folks. Lent does not end on Palm Sunday. I just looked it up again … According to my Ordo, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends with the Mass on Holy Thursday. The “46” is the actual number of calendar days from the beginning to end of Lent, but that might be 45, I’d have to recount. The point is that we do NOT count the Sundays as Lenten days. When you remove the Sundays, you get 40 days.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:22:41 +0000

A priest at an old parish once gave us this suggestion for Lent. Instead of giving up something, why not commit to starting a positive habit that can carry on past the Lenten season. For example, commit to pray daily. I chose to do that 20 years ago when he gave that homily and have continued since.

By: Mary Anne

Mary Anne — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 05:23:27 +0000

Thanks for the reflection, it gives us some things for reflection.
I think for me during ash Wednesday the whole issue of Christs passion and death always sobers me up.
The pain and suffering that Jesus went through is more pronounced at the Lenten season than at any other time of the year. Somehow it brings a feeling of sorrow, that one had to suffer so much and when i look at myself and the world today i feel we do not really appreciate what that means.
Your reflection teaches me, yes even in all this i can be joyful. Thank you
I would kindly ask you to explain what the 46 days means. I am also lost there.
Thanks

By: Loloy

Loloy — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 04:39:55 +0000

Thanks for this beautiful reflections for today’s reading.

I am just in sort of doubts when you say the lent has more than 40 days, which i would tend to disagree.

My catechism class in school taught us that lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Palm Sunday, of which; when we count in this year’s season from Feb 10 – March 20, as I counted is exactly 40 days. The Holy Week is no longer counted for the lenten season, its already the passion week, as we start it calling a Holy Monday and so forth.

Can you please give us the exact catechism on this? such as that when somebody ask us, we can also give the correct and exact answer. Thank you in advance.