1. Mary looms large in our theology, our liturgy, our confessions and creeds.
  2. He represents our likeness, fulfills it, and so has the prerogative to reproduce his likeness in us.
  3. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  4. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  5. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.

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