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The crime-rate had turned upward again. Our schools were total failures and would not, could not get any better. There is a drug and alcohol epidemic in high schools. Divorce rates were increasing. Abortions were at an all time high. A wave of bad news was sweeping the earth and there is nothing anyone could do about it. In Nigeria, everyone is angry, each time I drive on the streets I see nothing but pure anger, humans and non-human are angry looking for who to pour the anger on. Driver, conductor, and passenger even the bus itself is all angry and all hot, too many potholes. Woe betides you when you meet an angry conductor on your way out “and says enter with your change ooo and yet you entered with 1000 naira note. Husband is angry; the wife is getting too fat. Wife is angry; the husband is demanding extra meat with a small amount he drops. In the midst of all this trouble as a Nigerian imagine yourself not making heaven. That is what Fela Anikulapo Kuti called “double wahala for

*Theology,  Liturgy  and  Spirituality  of  LENT* - Rev.  Fr.  Paul  K.  OREDIPE  *Introduction*             Jonathan and Johnson were good friends.  Few years ago, on Ash Wednesday, Johnson went to the Church but Jonathan forgot the announcement on the previous Sunday.  When they met in the evening, Johnson was still having the ashes on his forehead.  Jonathan saw this and decided to help his friend, Johnson, to clean the stain on his forehead.  As he cleaned off the ashes, Johnson became so furious and started shouting: ‘you have spoiled my lent, you have destroyed my lent, oh what is this now?  You have broken my lent’.  This led to a long quarrel that was not even settled until the following Christmas feast of that year.             Yes the ashes.  We began this season of Lent on Ash Wednesday with the blessing and distribution of the ashes.  As the priest put the ashes on us he said either of these: ‘turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel’ or ‘remember, man, yo