So making a point of reminding ourselves of it annually is out of line?
I guess since you love your wife every day, you most certainly don't celebrate your wedding anniversary. Right? I mean, to be consistent ...
A constant reminder, and institutionalizing it, are two different things. Lent is a time of obligation for many Roman Catholics. And there is no justification in Scripture for doing so. The imposition of this sort of thing on believers, particularly as an obligation, is to encrust the Gospel of Jesus Christ with man-made trappings that I don’t think are pleasing to our Lord. What I do voluntarily is one thing; what I do out of a sense of obligation is something altogether different. And the Apostle Paul addresses those things in his letter to the Colossians.