Helpful Hint of the Month

Helpful Hint of the Month
“What are the disciplines of Lent we mention at the conclusion of the Brief Order of Confession and Forgiveness during Lent?”

You may have noticed on Sunday mornings that the last paragraph of the Confession and Forgiveness is slightly differing during the season of Lent in our worship services. The minister invites the congregation to “the discipline of Lent:
self-examination and repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love.”

Lent has long been a time for renewing faith. In the early Church, the custom of fasting before Easter was practiced, initially for only a few days at a time, until it eventually became a 40-day period for Lent as a reminder of the 40-day period of Jesus’ fast in the wilderness.