A BLESSED LENT TO YOU! The friars here at your Ava Franciscan Prayer Fraternity wish you and yours a "Joyful Lent", as one of our prayers at the Ash Wednesday Mass today suggests. Fr. S. Joseph Krempa in his DAILY HOMILIES reflection for today offers us more to reflect and pray with:
The word "Lent" comes from an Old English word for "Springtime" -- a season when new life is wrested from the clutch of winter. Lent is our time for revival and renewal -- the springtime of the spirit.
We have all been through enough Lents to realize that complete transformation probably will not occur. But Lent is an opportunity for repair work in a specific area of our life that might need reconstruction.
Maybe you have doubts about the faith or questions about things we do as a Church. Lent is a time to resolve the doubts and get some straight answers.
Maybe you have been carrying personal wounds that have been eating away at you. Lent is a time to find ways to let the healing begin.
Maybe your spiritual life is stuck in neutral and you want to be able to pray as easily and spontaneously as Jesus did. Lent is a time to start to experience prayer.
Each of us has some part of our life that needs a lift and some remodeling. Lent is less a time for pain and punishment than it is a time for healing...Lent is not a time for temporary improvement until Easter after which we go back to business as usual. Its purpose is to make a lasting change in our life.
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