The Meaning of the Season of Lent During the season of the Church Year known as “Lent,” our spiritual focus is directed specifically towards Jesus’ passive obedience—that part of our Savior’s work of redemption in which He suffered extreme agony …
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Ash Wednesday
– Ash Wednesday – As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death till He come. — 1 Corinthians 11:26. As they were eating, when the paschal meal was about over, Jesus …
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Quinquagesima Week – Tuesday
Lord, is it I? – Matthew 26:22 Now they ate the Passover. And after the blessing, Jesus broke the bread for His disciples. And He also took the cup, and gave thanks, and said: “Take this and divide it among yourselves, …
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Quinquagesima Week – Monday
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. – John 13:17. On Thursday morning, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: “Where wilt Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Passover?” (Matthew 26:17). And He …
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Quinquagesima Week – Sunday
Note: Quinquagesima is the Sunday before Lent. The word means fiftieth, denoting some fifty days before Easter. For a truth against Thy Holy Child Jesus … were they gathered together, for to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined …
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Sexagesima Week – Saturday
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said unto His disciples, “Ye know that after two days is the Feast of the Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified.” — Matthew …
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Sexagesima Week – Friday
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh. — Matthew 25:13. Parable of the Ten Virgins. Matthew 25:1-13 On Tuesday evening, after He had been beset by His enemies all day long, Jesus …
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Sexagesima Week – Thursday
While ye have the Light, believe in the Light, that ye may be the children of Light. — John 12:36. Today let us hear the last words Jesus spoke before the people in public, and in which He testified that He …
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Sexagesima Week – Wednesday
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not! Behold, …
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Sexagesima Week – Tuesday
I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no Savior. — Isaiah 43:11. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a …
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