The Importance of Lent – Ms Kawadza
Sunday 8 March 2020
Teaching by Tete Kawadza
What is Lent
Definition
🍂Period of 40 days before Easter
🍂Begins on Ash Wednesday, it’s a period of meditation and reflection
🍂Symbolised by fasting and prayer
🍂There is spiritual preparation
🍂The 40 day period ends with Easter Sunday
🛐Penitence
🔥To be sorrowful over flaws and actions
🔥Being repentant, comes from the word repent
🔥The mark of ashes represents humility, when back in the day they wore ashes and sackcloth
✅This is gotten from the story of Tamar and also the story of Mordecai
✅Lent is 40 days long because of the significance of the number 40
✅40 days were spent by the spies in Canaan
40 years were spent in the wilderness by the Israelites
✅Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness
✅Lent is a kind of spiritual spring cleaning .
✅The Lenten sacrifice highlights our free will and how God’s love outweighs the power of sin.
✅Meditate, separate yourself and put in prayer
✨ Faith, Love and Hope✨