Tag: lenten season
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Easter Celebration 2014
This year’s Easter Celebration was a bit different from the others. It was my third time to celebrate this wonderful celebration out of the country. The first one was in Japan when I was there from business trip, the second one was again in Japan last year (it was only now that I realised I’ve…
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Meditation and Reflection
It’s the time of the year where Catholics or Christians get the chance to reflect and meditate about God’s suffering and love for us. This is the time where we give up something for the benefit of others. As one of the priests in the Parish said, let every act be an encounter with the…
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Lenten Season 2013
“Remember, Man is dust, and unto dust you shall return.” The Roman Catholic tradition dictates that Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting. Today, we Catholic Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday where we go to hear mass and let the priest or the lay ministers mark our foreheads with…
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Lenten Season 2012
The Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten Season. Roman Catholics go to mass today as this is a day of obligation. This also means that this is the first day of 40 days of fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of repentance. It is the season dedicated in…
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Lenten Season 2011: What’s your sacrifice?
Lent is a Catholic tradition which is very much practiced here in the Philippines. It is a period of the Liturgical Year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial. And Holy Week marks the Death and Resurrection of the Lord,…
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Ash Wednesday: Start of the Lenten Season
Today will be the official start of the Lenten Season for Catholic Christians. I don’t know if other religion practice this or they have an alternative for this. Anyway, after work we went to Edsa Shrine to hear mass and for the imposition of the cross. Ash Wednesday is the practice of placing ashes on…