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The school bell has rung to indicate the start of the lunch period. After a prayer, Miss Lyndon dismisses her class, sits at her desk and begins reading her “Living Faith” booklet. Not long after, Standard Four pupil Jared, along with Kimmel of Standard One, stop by to pay her a visit Read More →

Lent is a time of growth.  It is a time when we weed out the thorns that choke us, and grow in faith, devotion to God and love for others.  Prayer, fasting and almsgiving work hand in hand to let this happen.  Each spiritual discipline gives life to the other and none ought to be left Read More →

Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving are spiritual disciplines that are used in Lent to help us to deal with spiritual obstacles and move us closer to our God.  One writer says, “As cars hit potholes on the road and need to be brought into the garage to be aligned, so too, us.  Lent is our Read More →

“Then,” says the gospel of Matthew, “Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights and afterwards he was hungry.” (4:1-2). This is one of several references to “fasting” in the Bible. Not as rigorous as the Ramadan fa Read More →