Tom O'Neill Lent Countdown. Lent is a time of renewal that focuses on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Personal prayer is a way of knocking so that the door of awareness opens. Lent is a good time to renew your prayer and worship life. Fasting means consuming less or sometimes nothing.
Abstinence means avoiding a certain kind of thing.
Fasting and abstinence discipline the body to rely less on the things of the world. They create a clear-headed dependence on God, whose love fulfills our every need. Each of us makes our own decision about what we want to add and subtract during Lent. But we have only six weeks since Lent ends on Easter Sunday, April 15 so our resolutions, while challenging, should be realistic. May God, who has begun this good work in you, bring it to completion.