A season to remember, A time opposite of December

 

           

            Lenten Season is one of many events that are being celebrated by Christians. Lenten Season is a season to reflect and prepare the time for Easter. We Christians celebrate it to honor the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Asides that, there are many things to do when Lenten season is ongoing like fasting, abstaining to eat meat on certain days, praying, and visiting churches on holy week. Since Covid-19 virus is still present in our community and even if restrictions are slowly being lifted, we still need to exercise caution and follow safety protocols to ensure our wellbeing.

           

The types we Christians normally do in Lenten Season like fasting, abstaining to eat meat, praying, and visiting churches. Now you might be curious as to why we are doing this, well in short, we do this to better understand the sacrifices that Jesus Christ made for humanity. In fasting, those ages 18-59 cannot eat on a certain period of time on a day. Liquids are allowed and certain people like people who are frail, pregnant, and manual laborers are excused in fasting. Abstaining or restraining on eating meat on certain days like Fridays, ash Wednesdays, and good Friday. Praying is an everyday thing that we Christians do to. We pray on either thanking God, praying for good fortune or luck, praying for the sick, and many more. Visiting churches on holy week is pretty common in our place. What we do is visit churches on different cities and pray on that church. We usually have a goal in reaching a certain number of churches we visit.

            To wrap things up, Lenten Season is a season to remember or to better understand the sacrifices that Jesus Christ made for humanity. We do certain things on Lenten season like fasting, abstinence, praying, and visiting churches. But Lenten season is not the only season that we need to worship God. Remember that worshipping god is available at any time of the day everyday and we need not to limit ourselves in worshipping god on certain events or season.

Online Sources

Juliana Blanca, goodhousekeeping, Retrieved on March 7, 2022

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/easter-ideas/a31345625/when-is-lent/

Frances Marie Teves, medium, Retrieved on March 7, 2022

https://medium.com/misssweetserendipity/what-i-do-during-the-lenten-season-a5a394f03156

ChurchPop, Retrieved on March 7, 2022

https://www.churchpop.com/2015/02/18/your-illustrated-guide-to-lenten-fasting-and-abstinence/