LENTEN SEASON  Lent is the 40 day season before The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Easter). Sundays are not counted as part of the 40 days. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (with the celebration of Easter Vigil). Thus it ends the day before Easter Sunday.  A week before Easter Sunday is called the Holy Week. The Holy Week is preceded with the Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday).We could say Lent is from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, up to the Mass of the Lord's Supper. Before Easter, we have the TRIDUUM (Holy Thursday-Mass of the Lord's Supper, Good Friday and Holy Saturday).   Sundays are excluded from the forty days of Lent because Sunday is the day on which Christ Had risen from the dead.  The word Lent, comes from an Old English word 'spring.' Other languages the name comes from the Latin word Quadragesima or 'the forty days.' Forty days is the Biblical and Traditional number of discipline, devotion and preparation.  40 days of Moses stay on the Mountain of God (Exodus 24:18 and 34:28) Elijah travelled 40 days before reaching the cave of the vision (1 Kings 19:18) The city of Nineveh was given 40 days to repent (Jonah 3:4) Jesus too, before starting his public ministry; He spent 40 days in the wilderness praying and fasting (Matthew 4:2) Therefore, we too should imitate Jesus in fasting and prayer in preparation for the celebration of His Resurrection. But above all 40 days should help us to undergo a conversion of our whole being.  In these 40 days of Lent the Church unites herself to the mystery of Jesus in the wilderness (Catechism of the Catholic Church 540). It is an invitation to each person to begin the important journey of a personal encounter with the Risen Christ. As we all know that, life is a journey between 'HUMAN BEING' and 'BEING HUMAN.' And as someone said, 'the longest journey is the journey inwards'. MAY YOU HAVE A GRACE FILLED LENTEN SEASON