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Editor’s Note: Today’s guest column was written by Karen Neuforth. Lent. Do you know the origins of that word? It tracks back through Middle English to Old English to an Old High German word, lenzin, meaning spring. Liturgically, of course, Lent is the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter, a time some Christian denominations observe as a period of penitence and fasting. But, whether one envisions the natural transition from the dark and cold ...
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