National Security: Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the Christian festival that marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent lasts forty days (excluding Sundays) and commemorates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness before beginning his three-year ministry. Included during this period is His thrice temptation by Satan, each of which was rejected. These events are part of the three Synoptic Gospels by Matthew, Mark and Luke, so the provenance or documentary proof is solid. Today at many of our churches, paris