I pray for my sponsor who died yesterday.
I pray for the disabled and the sick.
The three traditional practices of Lent are gestures starting with the letter p: prayer, penance and share age. No Lent without these three! Ask the Lord to teach us.
You know S e igneur, I do not pray. When I speak, I turn around, I'm distracted, and-dare I say? - I'm bored! But at the same time, I know that I am critical of you meet. Then, put in my heart, not the taste, but the need to pray. Thus, against all odds, I can sit at your table presence, offering you what I am and what I am not yet. Amen.
Penance
Teach me, Lord, penitence you like. One that prints my actions is a movement back toward you and openness to others. Teach me to do penance with the quiet joy of a river that is free of ice. So many patterns, so many false needs imprison me. Give me strength and courage to me release. During Lent, drive my heart to the point. Amen.
Sharing
Lord, make my Lent is more than a series of acts of charity. It is for me a school where I learn to share to keep the hand and heart open to year-round. You who are going through the gift accompanies my hesitant steps on this path. Amen.
Source: George Madore. With Christ in March 2011
Here are some riddles to test your knowledge on holidays.
Good luck!
Charade No. 1:
My first words put to music.
My second is a number between 1 and 3.
My third reads with needles.
My whole party is where you can eat pancakes.
My first was a perfect person.
My second is a broad valley.
My third contains 12 months.
My fourth can not be removed for washing.
My whole is a feast for lovers.
Charade No. 3:
My first animal is a rodent.
My second is a possessive adjective is the opposite of my.
My third is on the jaw.
My whole is a fasting period of Islam
My first animal is a rodent.
My second is due to several letters.
My whole is a religious holiday during which buys woven branches.
My second is navigation.
My whole is a festival during which disguises itself.
Charade 6:
My first is a series of images that we see during sleep.
My second is a fence of thorns or branches.
My third is a party truck.
My whole is the evening of New Year.
Charade 7:
My first is a movement of feet.
My second ended the trunk of some animals
My whole is a festival where you eat lots of chocolates.
Charade 8:
My first contains seeds corn or wheat.
My second is the fourth note of the scale.
My third is the habitat of the bird.
My whole is a celebration Christian recalls the arrival of the Magi.
My first is the opposite of the night.
My second is between 1 and 5.
My third goes to the speed of a snail.
My all begins one year.
Charade No. 10:
My first is an animal that climbs trees.
My second contains 365 days.
My whole is a celebration in which we light a bonfire.
1 - Candlemas (vocals, two, time)
2 - Valentine: saint, val, year complexion
3 - Ramadan: rat, my, tooth
4 - Palm Sunday: rat, word
5 - Carnival; for Naval
6 - Eve: Dream, hedge, ion
7 - Easter: no tail
8 - Epiphany: spike, F, nest
9 - New Year's Day: day two, slow
10 - St John, monkey year
p 23 Excerpt: " ... With the development of Christianity, Eastern religion, Babylon, a city of exile of the people Hebrew symbolizes the tyranny imposed by the pagan emperor. Then, when the 4th century, it became a Christian himself, the image of Babylon and the east is gradually losing its political aspect to acquire the traits of vice, lust and voluptuousness, and embodies the den of all evil temptations deem ... .
p22/23 Preview: ... " The Greeks, meanwhile, admires the achievements of the civilizations that succeeded each other while judging their culture inferior to theirs ... But if the Histories of Herodotus brings a wealth of information on the Persian and their predecessors, but rather legends mixing element Assyrian and Babylonian ... Ctesias of Knidos, the royal physician Perce Cyrus consult about it, the archive of the empire, but his work Persica , is known only by fragment transmitted by more recent authors, notably Diodorus of Sicily in the 1st century BC Again it is about legends ...". Berosus, priest of Marduk, god Babylon. It present in Greek, three rolls of papyrus, the main features of the Babylonian civilization. He dedicates his work, The Babyloniaca (Chaldiaca) to the Hellenistic king Antiochus Summarize the first ... by Alexander Polyhistor, Milesian 1st century BC, taken by Euséde of Caesarea, and some quotes provided by Posidonius of Apamea and distributed by Latin authors like Seneca and Vitruvius. The stories in Greek or Latin are to be handled with care ...".