Is your heart ready for conversion and are you ready to follow Christ more faithfully? During Lent we think of reflection, repentance and reconciliation. When we practice these three R’s, it helps us to prepare for Easter. We are told “in the waters of baptism, we were also baptized into Christ’s death, and begin a new life in Christ.” Another new beginning is in store for us!
I think back to my childhood and my profound fasting from poultry, that is until my mother not so gently chided me for giving up something that not only do I have an allergy to but can’t stand the smell of. Obviously, that fasting didn’t work out too well. Lesson learned! We should give up something that takes effort and denial and learn the difficult lesson of not going back to this abstinence after Lent.
While on our spiritual journey, it is often easier and more rewarding to extend almsgiving, kindness and thoughtfulness to others. I look forward to sharing these principles.
Lent is the time to empty ourselves of lesser things, so that we may be filled with quiet things of the Gospel, ” Your faith who sees what is hidden will repay you.” (Matt 6:16)
May our loving God bless you on this journey. Mary Jo