DURING Lent, it’s important to practice humility through sacrifice, self-introspection, and the teachings of Christ and in a heartfelt message, President Dr. Irfaan Ali emphasised the significance of humility, encouraging listeners to reflect on their undesirable aspects of their lives and replace them with the values and traditions during this period.

In the Christian church, Lent is a time of penitential fasting before Easter. Ash Wednesday, which falls six and a half weeks before Easter in Western churches, marks the start of a 40-day period of fasting and abstinence (except Sundays) in remembrance of Jesus Christ’s time spent fasting in the wilderness before to his public ministry.

Giving food or money to the underprivileged and carrying out other charitable deeds is known as almsgiving, and it is also encouraged. In churches in the East, Lent starts on Monday of the seventh week leading up to Easter and concludes on Friday, which is nine days ahead of Easter. Saturdays and Sundays are designated as relaxed fast days during this 40-day “Great Lent.”

“I take this opportunity to wish a lent period that allow you to derive the greatest satisfaction, blessings and fulfillment knowing that you will do their best during this period our society and our country,” the President said in a live broadcast message.

In supporting the building of a strong society, the period of lent, he says, reminds us of the importance of humility.
“Always remember that through the sacrifices through the period of betrayal, through the period of temptations, at the end of it there was a great victory and celebration, at the end of it there was the gift of life so as you celebrate and commit yourselves during the period of lent, period of fasting, a period of self-introspection, a period in which you think deep to pull the undesirable aspects of your life out and replace it with the teachings, the word and the life of Christ that the period, this truly remarkable period of renewal, is one in which you and your families in our society in our country would benefit from upliftment, would benefit from peace [and] would benefit from the gift of love,” he added.