Lent 101

From: St. Joseph News-Press | Date: March 3, 2007 | Copyright information

For some of us, all we really know of Lent is that some of our friends and co-workers give up eating meat on Fridays or abstain from shopping until Easter.

But, for those who observe it, Lent is much more than an act of denying oneself something.

We asked the Rev. Mike Volkmer, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, to explain the meaning of Lent and the lessons to be learned from observing the Lenten season.

The Rev. Volkmer, a native of Nebraska City, Neb., is ...

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