40 Days to Make Things New

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What is Lent?

40 Days to Make Things New

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Lent is considered a season of penance. It is a time "particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitintial liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary works.)"

   

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