What is Lent?
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Zero: What is Lent?
In this episode, Kiley prepares us for our forty day journey through Lent. We’ll learn what Lent is and how we can grow in friendship with Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming this Lent from the Merry Beggers, a brand new series for younger listeners. |
| 0:06.5 | Lent with the Saints. |
| 0:08.7 | Each day this Lent, discover the men and women who gave their hearts to God, |
| 0:14.2 | the children who leapt into the great adventure of faith, |
| 0:17.6 | and, along with our host, Kylie Lawrence, learn what it truly means to become friends |
| 0:22.7 | with Jesus. Listen today and sign up for free at lentwithesaints.com. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome to Lent with the Saints from the Mary Baker's. |
| 0:44.3 | Introduction. |
| 0:46.4 | What is Lent with the Saints. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Kylie from the Mary Beggers. |
| 1:02.5 | I'll be our host for this series, taking you on a journey through the 40 days of Lent. |
| 1:07.5 | What is Lent? |
| 1:08.8 | It's a time of preparation that starts tomorrow on Ash Wednesday and goes all the way to Holy Week and finally to Easter, the most important day of the year. |
| 1:20.1 | Lent is a time to grow in friendship with Jesus. Did you know that you can be friends with Jesus? And that He wants to be friends with you? |
| 1:28.9 | Yes, Jesus wants to be your friend. |
| 1:32.9 | Does your house ever get a little messy? |
| 1:35.7 | Isn't it nice when things are orderly and clean? |
| 1:38.8 | You have more room to play and maybe you even find toys you'd forgotten about under your bed. |
| 1:49.2 | Well, our hearts can get cluttered and messy, just like our house does. |
| 1:55.6 | We need to put things in order in our hearts to make room for Jesus, just like we'd tidy up our house. |
| 1:59.1 | And that's what we're invited to do during Lent. |
| 2:05.2 | We're invited to prepare for Easter with prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. |
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