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Show CL0SING WEEK CF LENT. The sublime mysteries wherewith the closing days of Christ's immortal career w ere marked are commemorated by the Church in the closing week of Lent, upon which we are about to enter. His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the agony in the Garden of Olives, the Last Supper, with the institution of the Blessed Sacrament, His Trial, condemnation, condem-nation, Passion, Crucifixion and Burial thesa are the momentous events in the early life of the Redeemer and the history of the world which the last weeks of Lent annually recall to our minds, and from which the Church would have us derive salutary lessons. Those lessons are so plainly to be read that there is no necessity to point out their character or to dwell upon their importance. . But plain and all-important all-important though they are, how fewi o ua heed them so that they may Influence Influ-ence as they should our own lives and the performance of our Christian' duties! du-ties! If we follow in spirt the suffering Christ as He carries the Cross to Calvary; Cal-vary; if we sorrow for our sins when we reflect that they were the cause of His death, and if we kneel in reverent grief at His tomb, how soon do we not forget all these things when Lent is ended and the penitential admonitions of the Church are no longer heard! And yet each Lent marks an important im-portant epoch In every Christian life. The one which is now about, to finish will be the last which many of us will be allowed to keep on earth, and It behooves be-hooves us all, therefore; to make the most profit out of it for our souls. And one" of the beat ways to do that is to enter so thoroughly into the spirit with which the Church would have us keep these last days of Lent that the lessons les-sons which they inculcate may abide with us and change for - the better whatever length of life still remains 0V us. |