Great Lent is for All Believers – By Fr. Rodney Torbic

  • Great Lent is for all believers, not just clergy and monastics.
  • Great Lent is time for serious consideration of the soul.
  • Great Lent summons all believers to actively participate.
  • Great Lent is an experience resulting in beneficial joy.
  • Great Lent requires participation of the heart and mind.
  • Great Lent entails continued discipline of the body.
  • Great Lent gives structure to daily Christian life.
  • Great Lent affects believers’ hearts, souls and bodies.
  • Great Lent arrives each year for believers’ benefit.
  • Great Lent is a recurring part of the each Liturgical Year.
  • Great Lent has been deemed of continued value.
  • Great Lent emphasizes the importance of repentance.
  • Great Lent sets forth examples of repentance.
  • Great Lent has specific defined liturgical services.
  • Great Lent includes practices of prayer and fasting.
  • Great Lent encourages believers to practice almsgiving.
  • Great Lent offers instruction to attentive believers.
  • Great Lent addresses the continuing hunger of the soul.
  • Great Lent provides regular spiritual nourishment.
  • Great Lent inspires drawing closer to Jesus Christ.
  • Great Lent asks believers to refrain from sin.
  • Great Lent calls believers to better lives in Christ.
  • Great Lent directs hearts and minds to God’s Kingdom.
  • Great Lent remembers the believers departed this life.
  • Great Lent gives liturgical attention to the Mother of God.
  • Great Lent directs believers away from sinful practices.
  • Great Lent offers new beginnings in the life in Christ.
  • Great Lent is an investment in the Kingdom of
  • Great Lent helps those who have sinned to be forgiven.
  • Great Lent is a time for serious confession of sins.
  • Great Lent motivates personal change for the better.
  • Great Lent is an inexhaustible source of learning.
  • Great Lent enables believers to begin anew in Jesus Christ.