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(LifeSiteNews) — Lent is a time to look at our world and examine the choices we’ve been making. It is a time to focus on the cross at Calvary and make the decision to be thankful for Christ’s sacrifice while looking joyfully toward the empty tomb. It’s a time to remember God’s sacrificial love and to choose to focus on Him and His goodness, for as we read in Deuteronomy 8: “If you do forget the Lord, your God, and go after other gods, serving and bowing down to them, I bear witness to you this day that you will perish utterly.”
These six weeks of Lent remind us to open our hearts to God. They remind us that seeking other gods — whether money, fame, or anything else — will be our downfall. These weeks lead us to the knowledge that the choices we make define us and who we are as children of God.
As I look at this increasingly violent world — a world that caters more to the culture of death than it does to a culture
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