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Prayers for Lent

By Building Faith Editors

Lent is a season that brings us before our humanity. The Lenten prayers and liturgies with which Christians may be most familiar tend to emphasize the ways in which human beings come up short: the finitude of our lives, the limits of our bodies and minds, the imperfection of our faithfulness to God and love for others, and the destructive and disempowering effects of our sin-entangled choices upon the world. However, these dimensions of human life do not tell the whole story of who we are.

Prayers for Lent

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