“At this time, make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position and that your seat belt is correctly fastened”….it’s Ash Wednesday, here we go!! Today is the official day of take-off, our Lenten journey begins today. Did you pack accordingly? Do you have your itinerary ready? What about shoes, did you pack the right shoes? You don’t want to get blisters! The truth of the matter is most of us are spending more time contemplating footwear for a mini-vacation than we do our entire 40 day Lenten journey. Why? Because, when that flight attendant rolls her cart on down the aisle we will just abstain from pop or alcohol and we’re good, done! Lent just means you give up something, right? If we think of Lent as a Journey and we just gave up drinking something on a journey, without any additional attention to details we wouldn’t get much further than the airport. Thus, what if we treated our Lenten journey with the same respect, time, & attention to detail that we would treat any other journey?
When you take a journey somewhere you need to:
1-Research and map out your journey
When you go on a trip you usually first determine the date of your journey, any special considerations that need to be made, and map out the days
- Lent begins Wednesday March 6th and ends Thursday April 18th
- Sundays are not included in the 40 days of Lent
- Sundays we go to Church
- Ash Wednesday & Fridays during Lent we abstain from meat
2- Make list of items you will need to pack
- Prayer
- Fasting
- Almsgiving
3-Make your itinerary
- Get out your calendar/planner and plan your 40 days of Lent
CLICK HERE for Walk the Lenten Path Calendar
Once you’ve planned for your journey accordingly all that’s left is to make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position & let the Holy Spirit take flight!
How does your itinerary look? What will you be adding to and/or abstaining from during your Lenten journey?
Mom on the go in Holy Toledo 