Lent is the perfect opportunity for exercising the spirit 

Submitted on March 09, 2011
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Joseph Kenny | jkenny@stlouisreview.com
St. Norbert Parish in Florissant held a prayer service March 9, where they burned last year’s palm leaves in preparation for Ash Wednesday. The Ash Bake was followed by a jambalaya potluck in the parish hall. Deacon Bill Twellman blessed the fire as parishioners looked on and Boy Scouts minded the flames.
St. Norbert Parish in Florissant held a prayer service March 9, where they burned last year’s palm leaves in preparation for Ash Wednesday. The Ash Bake was followed by a jambalaya potluck in the parish hall. Deacon Bill Twellman blessed the fire as parishioners looked on and Boy Scouts minded the flames.
Lisa Johnston
The season of Lent is one of the Church's most intense periods of penance, through which we can draw ourselves closer to the Lord. There are many ways in which this can be accomplished, including through spiritual exercises. Perhaps no one knew spiritual exercises better than St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), who wrote Spiritual Exercises, a set of meditations, prayers and other mental exercises in the 16th century.

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