EVERY YEAR, THE LENTEN PERIOD OF 40 DAYS IS SUPPOSED TO USHER IN transformation in OUR THINKING, BEHAVIOR TOWARDS OURSELVES AND THOSE AROUND US and thus make ourselves closer to our faith WE MAKE ENDLESS SACRIFICES, GIVE ALMS,DWELL IN SERIOUS PRAYERS, INTROSPECT, ATTEND SEMINARS, RETREATS, PARTAKE IN TRADITIONAL, religious RITUALS, Lenten plays, dramas are new popular medium of concentration,con sensitization through oblique entertainment I first ASK myself HOW MUCH CHANGE HAS COME DURING THE YEARS THAT I LIVED. IT MAY NOT BE WRONG, hypocritical TO SAY THAT is often VERY LITTLE, PERCEPTIBLE CHANGE, THE WAY WE LIVE AND BEHAVE AND ACT . Those who attempt and labour to bring out this transformation, often leading from the front , but it is a monotonous, lack luster traditional religious ritual, neither inspiring or touching the lives and hearts of most intended audience.Since year after year, we have to repeat this exercise , admitting partial effect of change and fragility of our spirit. Giving of alms, resorting to prayers, attending ceremonies are easily done but not desirable internal change.,I know of people who fast for 40 days, do not smoke, avoid alcohol, abstain from eating meat, make pious promises in right earnest ,but come Easter, it is back to square one, till the next Easter nelson lopes Chinchinim
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