Great Lent

Great Lent is a time of reflection...introspection... Fasting also includes, fasting from idle chatter, gossip, lusting (eh)....if one can abstain from the stuff you adore, like kibbee, shish-ka-bob maybe one can think about one's faults, weaknesses, sins....even people you do not like...which is why we have Forgiveness Sunday...at least to make the gesture....and one can pray for one's enemies. Lent is a time to slow down...and fasting includes doing good deeds for others such as extending oneself to the wounded and the broken and the " least of the brethren."
More services...too concentrate on God..which in this society..as we know from the recent MTC initiative, is totally absent...Great Lent can be a creative time to not be "pharisaic" but gently humble..in approaching the Holy One....and making HIM more present in our lives......in another words....it is the time of hope that one can change their lives for the better...more human and more divine...