"LENT."

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 March 1938, Page 2

"LENT."

March 2nd is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The vicar urges parishioners to make an earnest endeavour duly to observe the season m the fullest and best manner. Lent comes as a call to deepen our Spiritual life by renewal, self-denial and through the waters of self-examina-tion, repentance and confession emerge to the Divine foregiveness and a greater awareness of the Love of God. In short it is a call to draw nearer to God through Christ by casting off all that hinders us "m running the race that is set before us" and prevents God from working cut His purpose m and through us. By thus drawing nearer to the Master who calls us as of yore we shall come to love what He loved, earnestly desire what He des'red, and do

what He would have us do, and incidentally too "that so among the sundry and manifold changes of the world our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found," namely, m Communion with God. The special services throughout Lent should help us to attain unto this end and consequently we should avail ourselves of them. The Lenten self-denial offerings will be devoted, as usual, to the work of the Church m the Mission fields.