Sermons For Lent And Easter
Lent comes to our lives every springtime. Lent is the promise
of new life in nature following the drabness of winter. In the
seventh century the church set the period of Lent at 40 days
(excluding Sundays) in order to remind Christians of the length
of time Jesus spent in the wilderness following his baptism by
John the Baptist at the Jordan River.
Pope Gregory said, "Lent is our spiritual tithing." It is the
time we are asked to prepare for Easter. In past centuries,
Easter was the time for converts to be baptized. These new
