Regardless of whether your denomination calls Lent by its name or uses some other name like Forty Days of Prayer and Fasting, consider what sort of a fast you might make this coming Lent. For two thousand years Christians have fasted in some way during the time preceding Easter in order to meditate on Christ’s suffering. On Easter weekend itself most Christians fasted for forty hours between Good Friday and Sunday morning. Then they celebrated Easter with a great feast, appropriately
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