“God of Mercy and Compassion, look with pity upon me” By: Edmund Elorm Ackuaku Every great event is marked by a period of preparation. This preparation involves an anticipation and a disposition towards what we hope to celebrate. We are privileged to enter the season of Lent, a period of intense preparation in anticipation of the Mother of Sundays, Easter. Advent is to Christmas as Lent is to Easter, the greatest feast of the liturgical year. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday. This year's Lenten observance is not different from other Lenten observances, yet we can differentiate it and make it unique if we dispose ourselves properly to it. Lent denotes a 40 days preparation. Scripturally, forty recounts the 40 years of wilderness wandering of the Israelites, and the many forty days and years stories in scriptures. Lent as pointed out by St. John Cassian in the 5th Century is “the tithes of the year”. Here, we give to God those delightful but dangerous portions of life. Si...
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