Great Lent begins on Monday, March 7! It will be here before we know it, so let’s make sure and use this upcoming time of preparation wisely: let’s decide which weekday services we will attend; let’s go ahead and figure out when we will make our confession; let’s check to make sure we are up to date on our financial commitment to the parish; let’s stop by the library or Christ the Lightgiver Bookstore and pick up a book for some spiritual reading; let’s make our fasting plans (and get a blessing for any exceptions we need to make in the fasting discipline), and let’s be on the look-out for ways in which we can help and support our brothers and sisters in the parish.