00:00O Saviour, know my thoughts, I pray...
00:11May hours after two days of revelry in the capital city came to an end,
00:16devout Catholics filled the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Port of Spain
00:20to mark the start of the Lenten season.
00:23Remember that you are those and unto those you shall return or repent and believe the Gospel.
00:33The 40-day period is one marked by prayer, almsgiving, fasting and repentance.
00:39And the Catholic Church is urging Christians to focus on substance over form.
00:45Your almsgiving must be secret and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
00:53And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites.
00:58They love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues
01:03and at the street corners for people to see them.
01:08I tell you solemnly, they have heard their reward.
01:12That when you pray, go to your private room and when you have shut your door,
01:20pray to your Father who is in that secret place and your Father who sees all that is done in
01:26secret will reward you.
01:28Father Dafe is reminding the faithful that the Church instructs them to observe Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as days
01:36of food fasts,
01:37and all Fridays of Lent as days of abstinence from meat.
01:41However, he notes, fasting is much more than abstinence from food.
01:45We are asked to refrain from grudges instead to reconcile with God.
01:54We are also asked to observe digital fasting on social media and going into sites that harm the soul.
02:07And instead we have to focus on spiritual growth.
02:12Why worry when you can pray?
02:19Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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