Help me, O loving Lord, to truly spend the remaining time of this Great Fast in a manner that will prepare me to celebrate Your glorious resurrection. Help me to understand that Your resurrection could not have truly taken place without Your voluntary surrender and dignified embrace of Your death on the Cross. I have so much to learn from the way You lived and died, O Lord. Help me in my ignorance. Help me to truly desire to follow in Your footsteps and become our Heavenly Father’s child. As I request Your help, O God, I offer my praise to You, Who I know to be Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not only now but forever and ever. Amen