Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmidt and this is Ascension Presents.

Let's talk about Lent.

When it comes to Lent, we know we have to do something, we have to give up something for

Lent.

Obviously, we all have this.

But one of the things that we typically can do, we can fall into the trap of either seeing

Lent as like, this is the time when I really just challenge myself and try to do something

impossible, not because it's like a good thing for me to do, but just kind of like, I wonder

if I can do something difficult or we do the opposite.

We do something so minimal that it actually makes no difference in our lives, we hardly

even noticed it.

I once knew a woman who would give up eating watermelon for Lent.

In Minnesota, in the winter time, she may or may not have been one of my sisters.

Or we do the whole toofr, the toofr thing?

Well, I mean, I guess I had been meaning to lose some weight anyways and if I gave up

snacking, then maybe I get to for one kind of a thing.

No, that's not bad, but it misses the point.

The point of Lent is what?

Well, where's the origin of Lent?

Back in the day, like almost 2000 years ago, almost a couple centuries shy, people

come into the church.

It was a long process.

...