National Security: Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the Christian festival that marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent lasts 40 days (excluding Sundays) and commemorates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness before beginning his three-year ministry. Including during this period is His thrice temptation by Satan, each of which is rejected. These events are all included in the three Synoptic Gospels by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, so the provenance or documentary proof is solid. This year, today is also Saint