As a newly married couple, we are trying to create new traditions to carry out in our family. We want to center our lives around Christ, and His redeeming power. These are the tradition we have started, or want to start that help to keep Christ in the forefront of our minds. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or as many know us as Mormons. We beleive in God the Eternal Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Lent

When is it:
46 days before Easter
What is it:
Observed from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Lent is a time to prepare oneself though prayer, repentance, almsgiving, and self denial. It is a preparation to the celebration of the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Because we cannot fast for forty days as Jesus did, we give up something; in essence fasting from that certain thing. The fasting is broken for Sundays, as those are considered holy days- a day of celebration.
Today, some people give up a vice of theirs, add something that will bring them closer to God, and often give the time or money spent doing that to charitable purposes or organizations



How we celebrate
-          Choose one thing that is a weakness that you would like to work on.
o   For example give up sweets for forty days.
-          Add something that will bring you closer to Christ.
o   Reading your scriptures everyday
o   Go to the temple once a week during this time
o    say personal prayers, try to do morning and night
-          Serve others; Plan a service project for example:
o   Serve in the MTC
o   Cannery
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